Each day they were also ordered to keep silence from 4:30 to 7:00 A.M., from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., and from 8:00 P.M. onward, because at these times Baba was absorbed in working with his masts and would not tolerate the slightest noise from outside.
On Thursday, 8 August 1940, Baba came to see the women and told them more about Karim Baba:
This new one from Calcutta is a very rare type. The state he is in was longed for by Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. He never asks for anything, not even water. Whatever you put there for him he eats ... We put about 200 cigarettes before him and he smoked them all, four at a time, and swallowed the ends! It is phenomenal. And then he goes to sleep again. He either sits or sleeps. When for my working purposes I want to keep him awake, I put cigarettes before him which he smokes continuously. Then he goes to sleep again, although his sleep is not ordinary sleep but superconsciousness.
When I put 50 paan before him, he ate the whole lot. He does not enjoy it, however. It is all the same to him. He has not the slightest consciousness of the body. He is now in a cage. I keep him locked. Can you guess why?
When this child gets into a temper he is beyond anyone's control; not even 100 people can control him then.1 When I find him approaching that temper even a little, I go and calm him. A child is a child, a mad is a mad, and a ghoul is a ghoul. But this type is all three in one! When he acts like that, there is also a reason behind it. The changes and works of the world and humanity are played through the great souls [masts] and worked by the Perfect Masters. Why does this saint get violent? When the Infinite Power expresses itself through gross form, the gross form reacts in reverse, in the opposite way, because grossness is the opposite of God.
I sent the king mast [Phulwala] back to Belgaum and brought this child mast [Karim Baba] in his place. Both keep so healthy, never catch a cold or cough, never have indigestion in spite of their being so regardless of their body. King mast and child mast never get sick because their body is their slave, instead of their being slaves to their body.
Footnotes
- 1.Karim Baba had been kept at lower Meherabad for a while, in Baba's Rahuri Cabin, and when he was brought up to the bamboo cage-room on Meherabad Hill, he was taken bound in heavy metal chains.