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5100NO DRUGS1964

Baba looked surprised by his comment and made his accustomed gesture for Don to continue his thought. "Well, I hear so many people say that words, if anything, obscure Truth, and the mind finally cannot grasp Truth. Even some of the people who love you most dearly say that even Baba's words can well be left aside in the pursuit of God-realization."

"People say that about Baba's own words?" he almost exploded, he was so angry.

Don nodded mutely, "Yes."

Quite upset, Baba continued gesturing rapidly, which Eruch interpreted: "You must understand that whenever Baba gives out words for his lovers to use and read, he attaches a spiritual energy to them — something like an atomic spiritual bomb! Then, when one reads those words, even if he does not understand even one word of what he reads, a part of the spiritual energy will be absorbed by that person. And this energy will be very important for that person in his spiritual progress."

Baba concluded, "It is your duty, Don, to tell people what Baba has said, and to tell them to work with and read Baba's words, as this will be a great help in their spiritual ongoing." 

During one of Don's visits, Baba sent him to Ellora Caves for a third time, this time with Eruch. As Don recalled:

We stayed overnight in the guest house of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Eruch was instructed to take me as night fell and the caves were closed to the public to enter the Kailash temple. Baba had instructed me to go alone to the temple room and sit cross-legged on the floor, and when I came back to Meherazad, I was to tell Baba what I experienced. As I sat alone in the temple room I felt nothing for some time. Then suddenly I felt a presence that frightened me completely and I left the room and ran to where Eruch was waiting outside for me. When I returned to Meherazad, Baba asked what I had felt. When I told him of my fright, he looked at me surprised and made no comment. Eruch told me that Baba had often sat in the main temple room, while Eruch kept guard at the entrance.

The 38th International Eucharistic Congress of Roman Catholics took place at the end of November 1964 in Bombay, and Baba's lovers there distributed 17,100 Universal Message brochures among the delegates. "We should not want posterity to point the finger of blame at us for not telling them that the Second Advent they await has come to pass, and that Christ is in our midst in person," one from Bombay wrote. Pope Paul VI also came for the conference from Rome, landing in Bombay on 2 December 1964.  It was the first visit to India by a Catholic Pope.

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