[Tavern-Talk] HEART TALK - Chanji's Diary - Second Installment

[Tavern-Talk]

HEART TALK - Chanji's Diary - Second Installment 

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Ho! Ho! Halt!

Why should we close, at all? What is it that necessitates its closing? 
Let us remove that cause if we can. If it was the question of the 
running expense. Buasaheb suggested 500 a month would be sufficient, 
and undertook to manage that, if the number of the Mandali and boys be 
reduced to about 40 boys, 25 Mandali - contract given. The ashram was 
thus kept, but with the reduction of Mandali and boys. Buasaheb was 
asked to manage all this affair-- to sort out names of those quite 
necessary, willing working, and wishing to stay, and to ask other less 
useful Mandali to "pack off" families to march off. 

What a beginning on the New Year's day! God forbid, the 364 days to 
follow would not be so gloomy!

Meetings and discussion between Baba and Buasaheb, and B. Sab w/ Kakh 
and others, were frequent. The "sweeping off" work started. It was 
indeed an unpleasant task for Buasaheb to ask the Mandali and boys to 
go - He was in search of some sound, solid, substantial reason or 
excuse. What should I say to all, what reason should I give -- was the 
main puzzle now running in his mind. With his hands on the big 
mustache, eyes narrowed (chuchi) [squinted] - his typical pose - he 
tried to think, and think much, but all in vain!

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Jai Beloved Baba! 
Archives Team 
Avatar Meher Baba P.P.C. Trust 

Chanji's 1929 Diary can be viewed at:
http://ambppct.org/archives/collections/written_materials/diaries/links/v34/34vpage001to023.pdf

Other Heart Talk letters can be selected at: 
http://www.ambppct.org/archives/collections/written_materials/correspondence/heart_talk.htm 

To learn more about the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Archives go to: 
http://www.ambppct.org/archives 

Heart Talk, Letter 309, 15 October 2009 
Copyright 2009 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust