“”If India were benefited materially it would be thrown back spiritually. It would be even worse than England. The reverse effect would be greater.
The Prem Ashram school was reopened earlier that day, but during the next two months Baba seemed to be winding down the numerous activities at Meherabad. It was evident that he no longer wished to remain there as his work with the school and boys was nearing completion.
During March and April, many of the mandali were sent to different places for work. Pendu was still in Quetta; Chanji and Raosaheb were sent to Bombay to arrange for printing their writings; Baidul and Ardeshir were also later sent to Bombay to sell Raosaheb's Persian book The Revelation of Truth, as soon as it was printed; Buasaheb was sent home to Poona; Beheram was sent to Poona and Bombay to consult a doctor, as he was in poor health; and Padri, Edke, Masaji, Kaikhushru Masa, and Babu Cyclewalla were in Nasik (as were the women mandali).
Padri arrived with Gulmai on 4 March, and Dr. Sathe came that day on his weekly visit.
Baba's crypt-cabin was being rebuilt in stone at this time, and at 3:00 P.M. on Wednesday, 6 March 1929, the opening ceremony of the new pucca (permanent) room was performed. A tea party was held in celebration on the platform outside the Tomb with gramophone records being played and sweets distributed, brought by Adi from Ahmednagar.
That night, while explaining about what happens to the soul after death, Baba disclosed:
“”Suppose a person dies and his greater number of good sanskaras take him to heaven. There he experiences without a physical body the result of his good sanskaras of his past life. Similarly, if he has a greater number of bad sanskaras, they take him to hell and he experiences those sanskaras without a body.
In both cases the grossness of either good or bad sanskaras is wiped out either in heaven or in hell, and still the faint stain of these sanskaras remains in the mind. These are subtle impressions.
Suppose a dish of food overturns in your lap and your clothes become soiled with spots. You immediately remove or throw away the food, but the stains remain. These stains are like impressions.
Sanskaras remain connected with the environment where a person dies for two or three days after death. Although they are disconnected from the environment after two or three days, they are not spent either in hell or heaven for ten to twelve days after death.
