That night Baba took the women to see the lights of old and New Delhi. Arriving from Karachi, Pilamai joined the group on the morning of Sunday, 5 February. The same day, Kaka and Adi Sr. brought a mast whose hair Baba cut. He then bathed and dressed him in a new kafni, and, after feeding him, sent him back. Chhagan brought a couple of boys whom Baba also sent away, after giving them clothes and money.
As mentioned, while traveling with Baba during the Blue Bus tours, the main duty of the men mandali consisted in searching for masts and boys. As soon as they arrived at a place, Eruch, Kaka and Chhagan were ordered to leave and devote themselves to this work.
Near the dargah of Nizamuddin, on the 6th, Baba contacted a high mast named Kamal Posh .
Baba explained to the women, "Kamal Posh is on the fifth plane and my real lover. The splendor that surrounds his dirtiness, only I can see. The world thinks him mad, but the world is mad and he is sane! Nothing makes me so happy as the sight of these real heroes!"
At one point, Baba contacted Hafizji Nabeena , who Baba said was the chargeman of Delhi. Greatly revered, Hafizji Nabeena was a blind and utterly naked Muslim saint, who despite his lack of sight could find his way all over the old city whenever he walked around. Amazing tales and miracles were attributed to him.
Baba and his group left for Ajmer on 7 February 1939, around 8:30 in the morning. They reached the village of Alwar by the late afternoon and stayed in a dak bungalow there. At Alwar there was a newly born goat running loose, and the women, especially Elizabeth, played with it, and Baba held it lovingly.
Leaving at six o'clock the next morning, they arrived in Jaipur three and a half hours later. Near the Amber Palace in Jaipur, Baba suddenly had the bus stopped. He took the women to have a look at the palace from a parapet across the road. Baba's mood underwent a strange transformation as he gazed in the opposite direction. Shortly, a naked mast emerged from that direction. Baba and the mast looked at each other for a while. Beckoning the women, Baba pointed out the man, declaring that he was the spiritual chargeman of Jaipur.1
During the journey, Baba nibbled on nuts, raisins, apples, oranges or cucumbers, and occasionally passed some to the group.
Once, while joking with the women, he remarked, "Norina was a [high] priestess in a past incarnation ... Rano and Kitty were rival priestesses ... Irene was the stable boy [she loved horses] ... Gulmai was Masi's husband ... Elizabeth was Norina's wife who nagged her all day."
Footnotes
- 1.In 1941, when Baba was staying in Jaipur, he contacted this mast, who was known as Nanga Baba.