List for buying things to be given to Gaimai marked "to pay" or "not to pay." Letters and telegrams are to be given only to Baba — once a day, when Baba goes down the hill in the morning.
No one is to place anything on the Ping-Pong table.
Meals are at the following times:
Breakfast — 6:45 A.M.
Lunch — 11:30 A.M.
Tea — 2:30 P.M.
Supper — 6:00 P.M.
Later that same day, Adi Sr. brought an army major named Gulshar and his wife to Meherabad for Baba's darshan. The wife openly asked Baba to bless her with a son, and he handed her a flower petal and asked her to eat it, which she did.
But Baba told her, "You have all kinds of desires and they bring you unhappiness. I have no desire, and I am always happy and never get upset. I experience Baba in you all and in everything. If you think I know everything, there is no need to express any want. If you think I know nothing, no amount of pleading for any ambition is of avail."1
On 30 August 1938, Baba went for dinner at Akbar Press with Gulmai. Adi Sr. drove them. That day, Ghani arrived from Poona, where he had been on holiday for twelve days since completing his job of supervising the building of the compound wall. He, along with Dhake, Chanji and Adi Sr., worked on producing the Journal in an office on the hill. The Journal was to be printed at Mohan Press in Ahmednagar (run by Nusserwan Satha and R. B. Hiray) and Adi and Ghani went there on 13 September to check on the binding of the Journals . Adi was late in returning, and forgot he was supposed to pick Baba up at 4:30 as he was to go to Akbar Press again for dinner that day. Baba was furious and berated them both. "He almost beat Ghani!" Adi wrote in his diary.
But Baba also liked to tease Ghani and other close ones. He would call Soonamasi a " barber !" (An insult in India, meaning someone barbaric.) One day she retorted, "It would have been nice had I really been a barber! Then at least I would have been able to hold your face in my hands once in a while!"
Memo would visit Baba and the women at Meherabad for a few days every month and then return to Poona. She arrived with Jalbhai on 5 September and returned on 11 October with Beheram and Perin.
Footnotes
- 1.The Gulshars returned to Meherabad and saw Baba again on 21 September 1938.