in his usual silent way, walked up behind my chair, put his hand on my shoulder and kissed the top of my head. He then walked back to the sofa. I was so upset I was only aware of this. Finally Charmian led me out of the room to my own quarters. All that afternoon and part of the next day I felt as though I had a low-grade fever. From then on my whole body was well. I had had extremely low thyroid, and a blood pressure of 90 (which suddenly went up to 115), trouble with the pituitary and other glands, neuritis in one whole shoulder and arm, plus a very painful sciatic nerve. There were other things, but this is not an 'organ recital.'

"Shortly after our very first meeting with Baba, Norina and all of us were standing in the garden in Pimpalgaon and she pointed up to the crags where Baba did his Universal Work and she said she would take me up the next day; the words had hardly come from her lips, when Goher was seen running toward us from way down the path where Baba was in a cabin and she came directly to Norina and said: 'Mrs. Duce is not to climb the hill.' It was my first experience that Baba knew our every thought and word, no matter where he is. He healed me for a spiritual purpose — the work I had to do. Otherwise he always says it is best for us to be thankful if we can work out our karma through the body, which is the easiest way, even if it seems hard to us. We get other bodies, like new suits of clothes, so that if this one has to be patched it is a sign we are working off our karma."

It had been necessary for Elizabeth to return to America for a month or two in the spring of 1948 for work in connection with the Meher Center and for family affairs, but she was back in India with Baba by August 6th and she and Norina remained with him up to July end, 1949.

In July, 1948, two more Westerners were recalled to India, Delia DeLeon from England and Jean Adriel from America. They, like Norina and Elizabeth, were amongst Baba's earliest disciples, having followed Baba since his first visit to the West in 1931.

In those early days, Baba would tell us, "I call you to me for work, not for your own pleasure." And "I have not chosen the West, it is not a question of choice, but a question of where my work is most needed to have spirituality and materialism go hand in hand." Therefore is it not possible that the recall of all four women from the western hemisphere at this