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Chapter 15: Seclusion

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Kaka Baria was shaving at the time in his room, and seeing her fall, went to help her. At that moment, Baba appeared and harshly castigated Kaka.
He demanded, "Why did you disobey me? According to the list of orders, touching women is forbidden!"
Kaka replied he was sorry; that he forgot, and was only trying to help her.
Baba scolded, "Had you taken the order seriously, you would have remembered it. You think you have done a good deed, but you have no idea how much you have hurt me. Even if Katie had died, you should not have touched her. Then I would have been proud of how obedient you were. But her fall has made you fall, in disregarding my order."
Later, Baba forgave Kaka, and commented to the women (without explaining further), "It was a special day today.".
On Sunday, 8 December, at 7:00 A.M., Baba and the group departed Ramnad by the Blue Bus and car, and reached Calicut at 11:00 A.M. two days later. They had traveled via Dindigul, Palni, Pollachi and Palghat. (At one point everyone had to get out of the bus and ford across a small river on foot!) They stayed five miles outside Calicut at Ceylon Lodge , Eranhippalam. Baba liked the place. He immediately did his inner work with Chatti Baba, and soon after went to look for other masts in the area.
Kaka brought a high mast on the 11th, who Baba said "radiated God." Baidul brought many others, some of whom were simply mad or hungry. Baba fed them all, gave them baths and new kafnis. Baba delineated a few signs peculiar to masts:
Masts never stick to an exclusively milk diet, like yogis. They always sit apart. They usually have some odd movements of their hands or feet or head. They tie bits of cloth around their fingers, toes, legs and arms. They chew tobacco, drink tea, chew pan, or smoke endlessly. They may talk nonsense.
Saints like Chatti Baba, however, don't act like this. They look venerable, but are often childish, as is the case with Chatti Baba.
One day, soon after arriving in Calicut, Chatti Baba lost his temper and shouted, "This place is hopeless and I am burning badly!"
So Baba bathed him with almost 200 buckets of water. But after half an hour, Chatti Baba again wanted a bath! Baba again came to bathe him, but the mast did not allow it this time, and instead bathed himself with hundreds of pails of water, and remarked, "This is a place where there is neither food nor water!"
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