The group arrived in Ajmer on 8 February at two in the afternoon. Eruch had rented a bungalow belonging to a local banker, where Baba and the women stayed comfortably. Quarters for the mandali were arranged a quarter of a mile away. A few days after they arrived, Baba began his mast work in earnest.
Kaka and Eruch became solely occupied in searching for masts. Rano was instructed to keep hot water ready for the masts' baths. As soon as one would be brought, she would rush to fill the buckets in the bathroom. Baba would then wash the mast and afterward clothe him with new clothes or a kafni.1 Baba would take blankets and towels from the women and pass them on to his dear masts and, in the process, he was thus gradually lessening their baggage!
On the 12th, a friendly tongawala brought a mast named Brahmananda Singh to their bungalow. The mast had been living in filth for years, drinking filthy gutter water. Baba kept him in his room, bathed and fed him regularly. Adi recalled that he was the same mast they had seen seventeen years before, when they come to Ajmer from Manzil-e-Meem in 1922. Kaka and Eruch attended to the mast all day long, and Kaka slept near him. Baba said he wanted to take him with him back to Meherabad, and indicated he was on the sixth plane.
On 13 February 1939, Baba explained that there were six spiritually advanced souls in Ajmer: two on the sixth plane, two on the fifth, and two between the third and fourth or fifth and sixth.
"When one dies, another takes their place, so as to maintain the same number [six]," Baba stated.
He also spoke about God-realized majzoobs and how rare they were in the world, and stated that such a one was nearby.2 That day, Baba sent Kaka and Adi Sr. to bring this seventh-plane mast, one of the greatest in the world, to the bungalow. However, the mast refused to come with them from where they first found him — seated in an unbelievably filthy, small, two-room hovel near the tomb of Khwaja Mu'inuddin Chishti. The mast was called Chacha .
Chacha was strong in appearance, though short for his Pathan descent, and he had been so named because of his predilection for drinking hundreds of cups of tea, or cha , throughout the day.
Footnotes
- 1.Adi Sr. had six kafnis stitched in Ajmer by a local tailor.
- 2.For an explanation about the state of majzoobs refer to God Speaks pp. 137–140 and 196–197.