Another thing: If Adi [Sr.] wants, Freiny and Dolly should be kept in the hospital building on the hill. Do not allow them to occupy Baba's [cage] room. A telegram has been sent to you to this effect today. If Shireenmai and Perin come to Meherabad, arrange for their stay on the hill in the women's quarters as telegraphed (but don't let them stay in Mehera's room).
Adi has missed some things by staying on in Bangalore, and now that he has realized it, he will come back to Ahmednagar. The piece of roof rafter that broke and fell down is symbolic of Adi's leaving Bangalore and his coming and residing in Ahmednagar now.1
Baba is very pleased with you and tells you not to worry about anything and remember: "Muhammad's greatness is in Karbala, not in Kaaba!"
Greetings to all there.
Baba would also sometimes compose poetry and send it to Padri, demanding something better in reply. In case of the slightest delay in hearing from him, Baba would send a telegram about it. Thus Baba would keep in constant touch with the Meherabad mandali, who were at a distance from him, to keep them close to him.
At this time, Padri wrote to Baba about some problem he was facing.
On 18 April 1942, Baba dictated this telegram to him: "Read your letter to Vishnu. Always trusted my pillars [Padri, Vishnu, Pendu, Adi Sr.] implicitly and am not now going to lose my faith in your penance. Don't worry."
Eruch was sent to Benares on the 22nd to assist Jal Kerawalla in arranging a bungalow for Baba in Rishikesh, and they returned two days later.2 Kaka arrived on the 25th morning with the Kotwal children, and Jal Kerawalla left that evening for Nagpur and Raipur.
Chanji made some inadvertent mistake and was "blasted" by Baba on the 24th.
When Chanji said that his actions were unintentional, Baba said, "If you punch someone in the stomach as a joke and he dies as a result, although unintentional it still caused serious injury!"
Later that evening, Baba was in a much better mood.
As he sat with the women outside the Chander Road house, he called a despondent Chanji on the road in front of the compound and pacified him, explaining, "I do my work in my own way. Why do you worry for things if you haven't done anything wrong? I may create a scene, or a storm, anything for my work, and involve anyone I choose, even if not at fault. Why should that person feel sad and worry?"
Footnotes
- 1.In mid-May 1942, Adi Sr. and Ghani left Bangalore for good, and returned to Ahmednagar. Freiny and Dolly accompanied them. Adi Sr. began staying at Khushru Quarters with his parents, as did Dolly and Freiny.
- 2.Presumably the owner of the Rishikesh bungalow lived in Benares.