After moving from Myrtle Beach in 1958, Baba had ordered Jane Haynes to try to revive her acting career. She and her three children (“the Trio” as Baba called them) relocated in New York City, where Jane briefly appeared in a Broadway play. She had a rough time finding roles to act and for many months had no work. When she came before Baba, he asked with a mischievous expression, “Tell me Jane, do you have work?”
Thinking, “You know very well, Baba, I haven’t had any work,” she replied, “Yes — Baba’s work!” as she had been working on a children’s book about Baba.
Baba slapped both hands on the arms of his chair twice in a strong and vital gesture and looked happy. He stated, “So be it — always. It will always be only Baba’s work,” a hint perhaps of her future role helping Elizabeth Patterson at Meher Center.*
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Baba asked Bunty Kelley, “Are you worrying about little Margaret [her three-month-old baby girl]?” She did not answer, and he remarked, “Worry about me. Let me worry about her.”
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Baba remarked to Ruth White (the oldest Westerner to travel to India, at 93), “Do not think of anything but me, so when you drop the body you will be with me.”
-www.lordmeher.org, p4838
Nov, 1962; East-West Gathering, Guruprasad
*Lord Meher Page 4838 – Footnote: Elizabeth Patterson died in 1980, and Jane Haynes replaced her as the titular head of the Meher Center board of directors, until she died in 1997.