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Chapter 9: Tumultuous Travel

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Baba had cryptically remarked earlier, "Pandit is the link in bringing Aga Ali back to me. Through my contact with Pandit, Ali will return from Persia."
Tulsi was also a link, but Baba did not explain exactly how he was connected to Pandit or Aga Ali.
While Vishnu and Raosaheb were at Harvan, Baba went sightseeing in Srinagar with Chanji, Ali Akbar, and Tulsi. They walked around the city streets and bazaar. Baba spotted two Kashmiri boys named Rehman and Adam, whom he immediately liked and had brought back to his residence. There, Baba began cooking cabbage and the boys were amazed to see "a guru" doing such work.
Baba admonished them, "Never feel ashamed to do any useful work."
The next evening, Baba went to the polo grounds; and on the 27th to the Chashma Shahi Garden, which is watered by a mountain spring.
Raosaheb and Vishnu arrived with Pandit. After meeting with the boy for only a short while and instructing him to meditate, Baba sent him back to Harvan. The men were amazed that Baba's work with the boy was finished so quickly.
Age too was perplexed. "The significance of this contact remains a mystery," it noted. "Baba had traveled thousands of miles to see Pandit, but he met with him for only five minutes! Apparently, this was sufficient for his work."
Baba's work with children had been continuous since the days of the Meher Ashram. Of course, what the exact work was with Aga Ali, Ali Akbar, Chhota Baba, Pandit, Tulsi or other boys, no one knows, for how can Age ever fathom the repercussions of the Avatar's inner work? But, as Baba has explained, for any inner work he does, mediums are required, and through them his work becomes easy. In this case, the boys Baba would contact wherever he went were the medium for the inner work he was engaged in at the time. It was for this reason alone that Baba had traveled so far to Srinagar to contact Pandit.
In later years, it was similarly observed that Meher Baba would travel thousands of miles to contact a single mast sitting alone in the middle of nowhere. But this was a much different phase of his work and cannot be compared to his work with the boys. Suffice to say that every phase of Baba's work is limitless and to have a full understanding of it, or to try to pin-point any specific result, is impossible.
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