At Sirur, pointing out the difference between small and large mistakes, Baba explained:
“Small mistakes relate to a breach of individual duties and personal orders; big mistakes to a breach of rules and conditions of the New Life – such as not touching money, not purposely touching women, hoping to return to the Old Life, and so forth. Small mistakes consciously or unconsciously committed will be forgiven until the end of December 1949. Large mistakes unconsciously committed will also be forgiven until that time. But big mistakes consciously committed will never be forgiven.”
-www.lordmeher.org, p2787
October, 1949; Sirur