Jal Kerawalla, also, arrived in Delhi and accompanied Baba around the city looking for masts. Baba's most significant contact was with Hafizji Nabeena, the spiritual chargeman of Delhi, whom he had contacted previously in 1939. Baba spent three hours searching for him on the morning of the 6th and went out again that afternoon, at which time the totally naked mast was located. Baba was very happy with the work done.1
Baba next journeyed to Saharanpur, Lucknow and Benares, sending Chanji back to Jaipur. He contacted masts in these cities also and afterward left for Calcutta.
From Calcutta, contacting masts along the way, Baba went south to Jagannath Puri on the 11th, where Baidul and Savak were waiting for him. Baba contacted masts there, and then, accompanied only by Baidul, left for Waltair and Madras. Gustadji and Savak were sent back to Jaipur.
Adi Sr., after not seeing Baba for many months, had been ordered to come to Madras. He met Baba there on Thursday, 13 February 1941 in his Vauxhall car. Jal Kerawalla had come with him. They immediately left at one that afternoon in Adi's car for Ramnad, where Baba was again to contact the revered saint and mast, Pallukollah Baba, who Baba indicated was between the sixth and seventh planes.
Baba gave Adi as much tea as he wanted to fortify him for the long drive. The following is Adi's recollection of the event:
The cups of tea no doubt gave me a nerve stimuli, but none so invigorating as the dynamic presence of Baba himself in the car. The depressing memory of my stay at Bangalore ever since Baba's departure in April of 1940 — a long, tiresome and soul-enervating period the likes of which I never experienced before — faded into nothingness before the radiance of his sunny smile, his familiar gestures and his loving remarks by means of the alphabet board.
Baba told Adi, "The mast at Ramnad is the most important in India. He is the king of all masts, and it is a very significant stage of my contact with masts to be contacting him again. You are lucky to be with me on my birthday [the following day], driving me on this important errand."
They reached Trichinopoly at nine in the evening and continued driving throughout the night, stopping at a dak bungalow to rest from 3:00 to 6:00 A.M. Baidul slept near Baba on the verandah and Adi and Jal slept in the car. They started again and at 8:00 A.M. reached Kilakkarai (ten miles from Ramnad, the southernmost part of India) where Pallukollah Baba stayed.
Footnotes
- 1.Hafizji Nabeena died a few months later on 6 July 1941.