You know how important Eruch is for my work. By remaining by my side, he serves me 24 hours a day, keeps watch by my side, reads my signs and gestures, looks after my smallest chores, and in addition, he handles the correspondence. But, for the first time, during this period [of four and one-half months] I will keep him in Meherabad away from me.

From this, you can grasp the significance of my instructions. Follow them completely and make other lovers follow them.

Baba also remarked to those present: "I have not called you here for any meeting, sahavas, darshan or interview, but to hear what I am about to declare to you."

Baba's words created a very serious atmosphere in the hall. Thereafter, Eruch read "Meher Baba's Universal Message":

I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.

Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man's inability to live God's words makes the Avatar's teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged crusades in his name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.

Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them. To get nearer and nearer to God you have to get further and further away from I, "my," "me" and "mine." You have not to renounce anything but your own self. It is as simple as that, though found to be almost impossible. It is possible for you to renounce your limited self by my grace. I have come to release that grace.

I repeat, I lay down no precepts. When I release the tide of Truth which I have come to give, men's daily lives will be the living precept. The words I have not spoken will come to life in them.

I veil myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance, and manifest my glory to a few. My present Avataric form is the last incarnation of this cycle of time, hence my manifestation will be the greatest.