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Chapter 12: Film Projects & Work In India

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No one is doing it. When the mind is surrendered, there is no question of happiness and unhappiness. Because of the thoughts of the past lives, sanskaras are spent away. They come and go. Pay no attention to them. Mind is like a wound-up alarm clock. It will ring at the appointed time, but only so long as the winding is there. Let it ring and run its course, but take care to not wind it again by indulging in bad actions.
Still, if you want to die, die in my naad [infatuation] by holding on to me firmly. There lies salvation. That is real dying. Worldly death is not the thing. However, nobody has so far "captured" me. If one really catches me, I try to free myself. But so far, I have had no opportunity of freeing myself. On the contrary, it is I who have been trying to catch hold of you people.
Remember this much: The whole world is nothing but a zero, and everything connected with it is without sum and substance. Mind is the universe. Mind is the man, the woman, the beast.
To console her, Baba brought Dolly to Nasik the next day along with Gulmai. Ghani was also called to Nasik at this time for a weeklong stay.
Baba planned a move of his headquarters. He informed everyone that he had decided to shift both the men and women mandali from Nasik back to Meherabad.
Baba returned to Bombay on 24 November, with Rustom and Freiny, where he met Adi Sr. and Padri. He had discussions with them, Vishnu, Chhagan, and Kaka about a water pipe connection for Meherabad Hill. Sarosh met Baba in Bombay the next day, and Baba returned to Nasik on the 27th.
Pendu and Sidhu met Baba in Nasik that day and also discussed the proposed water pipe. Pendu had recently completed erecting various structures on Meherabad Hill. After all the belongings of the mandali were transported to Meherabad (filling three buses), they left Nasik on Thursday, 30 November 1933.
The women mandali took up residence on Meherabad Hill in the Water Tank rooms, and the men mandali moved into the hospital building at lower Meherabad (which was originally the Mess Quarters or old dharamshala). Pendu was appointed manager and Vishnu was to do the marketing. Jamadar remained the night watchman, a duty he had been doing since 1925. Chhagan continued to keep watch near Baba when he was in Meherabad and during any travels in India.
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