grass dropped over the edge of the Falls, a 950 ft. drop. These Jog Falls, especially in the morning, being in the midst of the jungle are a most impressive place, though not a great deal of water now (Nov. - Dec. are the best months) but a lovely and memorable place all the same.

Baba rushed us off at 8 a.m. the next morning — we only got there at midnight the night before, and down through 60 miles of jungle road lovely and scented as always — huge trees towering up close against each other, and a dense undergrowth.

We had a picnic lunch on the way, crossed one ferry at a river estuary. We reached Karwar last night, 4/4/40, at 7:30 p.m. All the women went to the "Grand Hotel" with Baba — not so grand, old and dirty, and we men in the rest house alongside. This Karwar is a divine place. Jungle-covered hills falling into the sea, sandy bays and rocks, headlands and trees over the beach, island out to sea.

Yesterday I had a fine swim in the river above Jog Falls while waiting for the other cars to cross the river on the ferry. This is a lovely river running as it does through jungle forests — crocodiles in water too; but none I think where I bathed. Baba loves this place but has forbidden visiting in the town because there is plague there — but not many cases, only two deaths a day, which is not much.

The other morning, when I was only half awake Baba quoted some Persian poet who said (in translation): "It takes time for the runner to gain speed; it takes time for the sleeper to awake, and it takes ages for one who has been spiritually asleep to be spiritually awakened."

7/4/40:    Yesterday we all went with Baba in the morning, to an island a mile or two off the coast, called Ajadig, where Vasco da Gama first landed in India; a lovely tropical island about a mile long, half a mile broad, with two springs of water. We crossed over in small local boats, very pleasant and lovely experience. Later in the day, Baba said He wanted to buy the island (from the Portuguese) if possible, and Norina, Elizabeth and I went to visit the Governor of Goa (so I must hire a suit there!) Baba said if he, the Governor, had a beard, Norina must persuade him; if possible, if he had only a moustache, Elizabeth must rattle money -- in her pocket!

A page is missing in the Diary. By internal evidence, this message is probably the one referred to by Donkin as the one Baba gave on 'poise' — Ed.

It is the undoing of what you have been doing since ages. You always thought of selfish motives of eating, preserving your life, and attending to every need with zeal. All these lives you have made a habit of looking to yourself. If the slightest thing goes against your habit you are upset. Now, to undo all these selfish bindings you have to do what you have not been doing, or not to do what you have been doing. What you have been doing always is thinking of yourself; so now you must not think of yourself but think of others. This is what’s called LOVE. But it needs character, poise, perseverance. POISE - What is POISE? That state of mind where nothing excites you, nothing upsets you; - then only you can help others, then only can you make others happy. That means LOVE. Thinking NOT OF YOURSELF BUT OF OTHERS.