In Calcutta, a tongawala directed Kaka to two advanced souls. Kaka then took Baba to them. One was the great sixth-plane mast whom Baba later named Karim Baba . Baba fed him, gave him cigarettes and saw him four or five times before he left.
"This mast is the spiritual chargeman of Calcutta," he revealed to the mandali.
Baba also stated: "A certain yogi in Java has a connection with the one in Calcutta [Karim Baba], and to 'connect' the link, I wish to go there after visiting Calcutta, either now or later."
Another contact was a very advanced, half-blind mastani seated on a footpath opposite St. Anthony School. Baba washed her feet during their first meeting and gave her a new sari and an umbrella. He contacted her again on subsequent days and massaged her feet.
After contacting a few masts in Calcutta, Baba went to Ranchi on the 18th. He remained there for a day, at the Prince Victor bungalow, and arranged for a place to stay, so he could bring the women. He then returned by train to Meherabad with Pendu and Kaka, leaving Gustadji and Savak in Ranchi with instructions to fast until he returned. Baba arrived back in Meherabad on the morning of the 22nd.1
Sarosh was to have met Baba at the Ahmednagar railway station that morning, but he was delayed in Poona. Baba and his group had to hire tongas to go to Meherabad. This disturbed Baba's seclusion, and he was greatly inconvenienced and annoyed to be recognized by people at the station.
On 21 June 1940, Baba had dictated the following message:
The present world chaos and the universal suffering are absolutely necessary for the eventful and universal spiritual upliftment and for a new world, wherein peace, love and divine aspirations will reign supreme. None should therefore feel scared and dismayed, bearing in mind the certainty of this bright future. From the spiritual point of reality, the words nation and foreign, killed and killer, war and peace, success and defeat, have no meaning, because the world of forms and of duality have no existence and are imaginary dreams, and the present universal chaos is just a universal nightmare, necessary for the real universal awakening.
Body forms and minds are innumerable and of infinite variety, but souls are all originally and eternally one. In fact, only one infinite Reality exists, and that is God. So the present apparent world catastrophe is, by Divine Will, essential for a divine manifestation in the near future, of love and real peace, in which I have to play the greatest part, and in which I want my men and women disciples to play the corresponding parts of helping me in this, my work.
Footnotes
- 1.Significantly, on 21 June 1940 an important meeting in Wardha between Gandhi and other Congress party leaders concluded and most of the leaders, including Subhas Chandra Bose, boarded the same train as Baba on their way to Bombay. Bose was arrested by the British ten days later.