N. being blunt; — love her all the more. She needs it. If she finds you weak in your wants, then too she must love you you need it. If a mother found her child sick or weak, she would fondle it more. All must love more. You will love more the child who is weak. So when any one of you is weak, the rest of you should love them more. By weak, I mean taken up with desires. Anger is weakness, pride is weakness, and so on. When she is angry she needs love. So all try. As Kaka says, 'No discuss, Try!'

I could have taught you love much easier if you were physically strong. This is a handicap. Almost all of you are weak. But try. It is all within. From today everyone of you, even the frivolous three,* for five minutes try to look within. Meditate as before for one hour every day, but this extra five minutes is not meditation. It is just a 'looking within'. Be silent and alone during these five minutes. Be within and look within. But how?

Sit in a relaxed position … don't think of anything, not even of Baba. Close the eyes and mentally look within and imagine yourself as infinite within. Let the idea that you are infinite remain for five minutes. How do you imagine yourself infinite? You can imagine the Infinite as sky, ocean, or vast space. Or, if possible, it is best to imagine it as complete emptiness. And let this one thought be in your mind — that you are infinite within. (This we all tried to do.) Is it clear? It has to be very clear. It is very important.

From now on do one hour's meditation as usual every day, according to individual instructions. And when I am here, half an hour's silence with me in the evening. Also from today, this extra five minutes. This is most important. It is very, very important for me to help you and to give you what I want to give. So listen carefully.

It is not blankness that I am telling you to have. Blankness means no thoughts, no ideas. But in this you have to cling to one thought, one idea: 'I am Infinite'. But you cannot imagine infinity. So compare it with either sky or the ocean or like this emptiness. But this is not to be in language. Ocean or sky, — bring it to your mind. Say, 'I am as infinite as the sky or the ocean within'. Do not say it in words. Just think the idea. That is why it is only to be for five minutes. If longer, you merge. Now is it clear? Five minutes, then you don't merge. One hour's meditation when you do merge. This five minutes you can do at any time. But not as compulsion. This is important to remember. Not 'I must', but when you feel like it. Indoors or out of doors.

Once you get the mental poise I am aiming at you will experience ecstasy. Try, I will help you. Some merge so easily that if swarms of mosquitoes pass they do not hear them. Some are very easily disturbed. Others, very restless. But do not worry. Merging or no merging, do as I say. It is Baba's help that will lead you and not merging. But if you can merge, then it is easier for me. If I lead you by the hand from here to there, and you are relaxed you follow easily. But if you are stiff then I have to pull you. It is a great help if you merge.

Begin dying by loving. Promise. If you can't love one another, how could you love those who might torture you? How Jesus loved! He saw Himself in all. See Baba within. If I say 'no' do you get angry? When N. says 'no' think it is Baba who says 'no'. There are so many ways.

It is all want. Pride, ego, satisfaction — all want. How to differentiate between need and want? You might say, 'I need all I want'. What is the difference? If you ask for water and are thirsty in a desert you need water, not lemonade. Water is your need. If you ask for barley-water it is a want. Is it clear? But if you can get good water it is not necessary to drink muddy water to kill your desire of drinking. Drink good water — very important. Neither lemonade nor muddy water, but pure simple water.

Addressing one of the group Baba said: "It is bad for your health to get excited. It is bad for me, and bad for you and your nerves. It is bad for your mind. It is hard in every way. So keep calm. I marked that you all promised and two minutes after you forget!"

*Kitty, Margaret, Delia