He returned smiling, in spite of the fatigue from walking those long miles, happy that his work had been successfully completed.
From Alwar, Baba and the men drove to Ismailpur to contact the sixth-plane jamali mast Gokhale Baba .1 After many wrong turns and confusion in finding a guide, Baba was able to contact the mast in a small temple on the outskirts of the village. The old saint, well over 100 years old, was greatly revered and lived in that humble temple with five or more dogs. Gokhale Baba welcomed Meher Baba on their last meeting, with the words, "God has come."
On a different occasion in January or February of 1941, Baba had contact with the spiritual chargeman of Jaipur, Nanga Baba . This great mast and saint lived outside Jaipur at the village of Amber and Eruch was sent to bring him to Baba. The following is Eruch's account of his encounter with Nanga Baba:
He was completely naked, and carried a forked stick with bits of dirty rag tied to it. He lived on a mountain facing the Amber Palace, and each morning walked down to Amber village, took some sweetmeats from a shopkeeper who gave them to him, and speaking to no one, returned to his mountain. About halfway up the mountain, at a small temple where there was a spring of water, he washed, ate the sweetmeats, drank water, and then walked back up to his mountain top.
At this little temple, he used each day, after eating and refreshing himself, to make mud balls. I asked him what these "mud balls" were for, and the mast told me that he was ordered to throw these "fire balls" on big cities in other parts of the world, and because of this he was very busy, and could not come with me [to see Meher Baba].
I then asked him what his peculiar forked stick was for, and he replied that the stick and the knots of old rags on it helped him to aim and point toward the cities on which he threw the "fire balls." In no uncertain terms, he then told me to go away, but he promised to come for contact with Meher Baba one day when he visited Jaipur. I tried with more persuasion to get the mast to come with me at that time, but he refused, and hit me.
Footnotes
- 1.The mast's name Gokhale is also spelled Gokul.