I want you to do this through love and not through compulsion.

I want you to live in accord and to maintain cordial relations with all, especially during these six months of My Seclusion which will test to the utmost your forbearance, thus making you aware of the extent of your love for Me.

I want you to know that I will definitely break My Silence; and I want you to cling to My "daaman" till the very end, irrespective of whether I speak or not. I am the Highest of the High, and want you to love Me not for any spiritual or material gain, nor for the impending breaking of My Silence and My manifestation, but I want you to love Me for Myself, as being God in human form.

I want you to remain undisturbed and unshaken by the force of life's currents, for whatever the circumstances, they too will be of My own creation.

I want you to remain absorbed as much as possible in thinking of Me during My Seclusion of six months, when circumstances will be so cre­ated during this period that they will try to drift you away from Me. This is the reason why I have repeatedly stressed, while at Guruprasad, that the time has come when I want you all to cling to My "daaman" with both hands—in case the grip of one hand is lost, your other hand will serve in good stead.

And lastly, I want you all to remember NOT to disturb Me in any way during My Seclusion, not even by writing to Me to acknowledge this or to reaffirm your love for Me.

A Birthday Message

As a born Zoroastrian, I can well imagine your elation to find me amongst so many of you here, who, like myself, also happen to be Zoroastrian by birth; but that which makes me feel to be so very happy today is the love and the devotion of those of you who have succeeded in drawing me all this way to Surat.

In the immediate atmosphere of my country, my community, my this and my that, I may not mind if some of you feel proud or consider the community fortunate because I happen to be born amongst you; but