Baba stepped out of his cabin at 7:00 P.M.[ on 31st January 1952] and the dhuni was lit. Eruch read the following as dictated by Baba:
O Source of Infinite Knowledge, Almighty God! You know that I did all that was humanly possible for me, in this ordinary state, and I leave the result entirely to Your will and sanction. For its fulfillment, may the moment, the hour, the day, the month, the year, the yug [age] be as You have decreed and destined.
From this moment You must guide me to declare, in all truth, by the 16th of February 1952, what You have decided.
From now on I free myself from external religious ceremonies that I observed during the New Life and the Manonash period.
Baba had previously instructed Eruch to write these words down on a piece of paper: “All rites, rituals and ceremonies of all religions of the world are hereby consumed in the flames.”
Baba had the paper in his pocket, and as the dhuni burned he took it out, tore it into pieces, threw it into the flames, and watched it burn.
-www.lordmeher.org, p3027
31 January 1952; Meherazad