On Baba’s many trips to the West, I impulsively would suggest bringing new people to Baba, and even suggest they should sit next to Baba in the car or at a show. This may not have been what Baba wanted. On Baba's later visits to the West, between 1933-1937, he allowed fewer and fewer interviews and seemed even displeased when you had arranged for many to see him. Baba gave us his reason for thus apparently avoiding people. To quote his own words: "I will draw the whole world to me when the time is ripe and when I want."

You will note Kaka, at the end of his speech, referred to our group as "Baba's Circle Disciples." Why? Many want to know. Baba said very little to us about his "Circle." However, here are two or three excerpts given by Baba, this time in Nasik, 1936, in reference to his Circle:*

"What you give to the Master on his Birthday is 'dakshana.' Gifts given by members of the Circle on that occasion do not benefit them directly because, being members of the Circle, they do not need it, but they benefit those closely connected with them. For example, XY makes a gift to me, and on that occasion the spiritual benefit touches her mother."

And again:

“When I work for those in duality, time counts. I work at fixed times for my Circle; and for the Universe, no time is fixed. So, when I ask you to abide by time, it means you have the benefit of my working for the Circle."

Charles Purdom quotes in "The Perfect Master," the following statement by Baba in 1923: “For the Circle, I shall have to get ill no less than twenty-eight times, and in each of my illnesses I shall have to shed tears."

In answer to a question as to how Baba takes his Circle, Baba explains that in some exceptional instances the Sadguru enables the Atman (Soul) to step over intermediate stages of evolution. Particularly with members of his Circle—the Sadguru or Perfect Master pulls them up from the human state and transforms them into the likeness of himself.

However, I do not recall a single instance, after we were called to Meherabad in 1937, of Baba referring to us as “His Circle." Baba stressed most, the thought expressed in Hafiz' poem (Baba's translation): “He is the chosen disciple who obeys the Master in everything and anything with all his heart."

* Read the article ''The Circles,” page 1.