Your suffering will be with that of your Beloved - with an understanding that these things must be, that out of it will come peace and happiness, that with the world as it is now can never be. This will be your blessed opportunity of spreading my message.
It is this killing pain of separation which is love at its extreme height that gives the conscious Union which all long for and which all are here to experience. So all is worthwhile and for a purpose. Experience, all must have — the experience of being the murdered as well as the murderer — of being the saint as well as the sinner, which is only a lesser good. You must see me in all to be able to help all. Never forget this and you will never fail in your understanding and help.
Adi Sr. and his mother Gulmai were sent to Nasik on 10 March, to help Rustom deal with Freiny's continued unstable mental health. Pilamai left for Karachi the following day. Baba left Bhopal for Sagar on Sunday, 12 March 1939, at 7:10 A.M. Helen, being still not well, was left behind in the Civil Hospital with Irene to look after her.
At Sagar, they resided in the dak bungalow. Baba took the women to see Chakra Lake and Aspatal Ghat.1 The next day, Baba left the dak bungalow in search of masts, and brought back one in a tonga. The mast had scaly skin like an alligator and, while giving him a bath, Baba scrubbed and massaged his entire body with oil. After feeding him, the mast was sent away. Baba called him Magar Shah — Crocodile King. The mandali heard that Magar Shah's scaled skin healed or disappeared seven days after Baba's bath and massaging his skin with oil.
The same day, 13 March, at two in the afternoon, Baba and the group of men and women left Sagar and reached Jabalpur in the evening. Baba and the women occupied a large bungalow arranged by Jal Kerawalla, and the mandali stayed in another house nearby.2 No sooner had Baba again set foot in Jabalpur than he occupied himself with mast work, venturing into the city to contact them. As usual, those who were brought to the mandali's bungalow would be given a bath and food. Most of Baba's time during this period was spent engaged in his work with masts.
On Baba's return to Jabalpur, Eruch was sent to bring his family (Gaimai, Manu, Meheru, and Meherwan) from Nagpur.
Footnotes
- 1.Sagar was the place where Hazrat Daood Chisti had given God-realization to Tajuddin Baba, while he was serving in the army and posted there in 1879.
- 2.Upasni Maharaj was also touring the area at the same time and passed through Jabalpur on his way to Sakori, though he and Baba did not meet.