Even Sandow [a famous bodybuilder] couldn't do that. Divine power helps these souls remain healthy, because they have no consciousness of the body. They say, "Let God bother!" and God has to bother.
It is a fact: Those from the fourth plane up cannot get ill.1 Does a child ever bother about its body or health? The mother looks after that. Saints are real children, and God is their mother. And until you become a child, you cannot enter this kingdom.
Picture Norina as a child — but mad! I can see Nadia as a child, but not as mad. If she were mad, she would start biting Norina's nose! And if Norina were mad, Elizabeth would catch the first boat to America! If Kharmen Masi were mad, she would throw Banubai out the window, and Mansari would throw each and every one out the window! Kitty would learn ten more languages to cook together in one pot!
Baba was teasing about their various characters. Kitty was supervising the kitchen, and because the maids did not understand English, she had dutifully learned a few Marathi words. But she could not pronounce any of them properly, which amused Baba no end.
Two days later, when Baba was trying to bathe Chatti Baba as usual on the 20th, not only did the mast persistently and adamantly refuse but he insisted on bathing Baba again with his own hands, and Baba was drenched. Later, Baba said he was giving up working with Chatti Baba and declared that he would get his work done "in some other way." He now wished to leave Ceylon and instructed Chanji to find a suitable bungalow on the western coast of India.2
Four carloads of people came to see Baba on Thursday, 21 November 1940. But he sent Norina to talk to them, and did not meet them, since he wished to remain in seclusion. At 10:00 A.M., he went with the women in Elizabeth's car to the Botanic Gardens.
The next day, Baba stayed with the men the whole day, fasting on water and honey. On the 23rd, he took the women on a tour of Kandy and to the lake. They also went to see some elephants bathing and performing tricks.
The Blue Bus had been sent from Meherabad, and it arrived in Kandy on the afternoon of 23 November. The next day, Baba took the women to several places connected with Buddha.
Footnotes
- 1.Masts and saliks may become ill due to inclement weather, infections, germs, et cetera, but because they have no connection with their physical bodies, it does not affect them. Some display outward signs of illness, and some do not.
- 2.Chanji left the next day for Calicut and Cochin. (Source: Donkin's Diary, 20 Nov 1940)