The mandali, Bal's family from Poona and Sholapur, and his friends from Meherabad and Ahmednagar gathered around Bal to share remembrances, to read the ghazal and story he had requested to be read out after his passing, and to say Baba's prayers and arti together with Bal for one last time.
Then Bal's body was placed in the Swanee (the Trust van) for his last journey to the Samadhi and finally to the cremation ground where hundreds came to say their good-bys.
Bal would often say, "I am a friend to many, but intimate with only One." The stories of his friends eloquently convey how, through that intimacy with the One, Bal quietly touched the lives of multitudes of Baba-lovers around the world, not only through his personal contact but through the volumes he wrote about Baba.
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