From Najibabad, Baba and his four companions took a train for Ajmer. On the way, Baba spoke about the number of masts in different countries:
There are two lakhs [200,000] of masts in India. There are one thousand masts in Russia and one thousand in China. In Europe there are only a few masts. Masts in India are original "office workers" spiritually; those in Europe are agents, who draw spiritual force from Indian masts. In Rome, there is one very advanced mast. The agents are linked with the original office bearers. Indian masts are officers in charge of regions. They also control the European regions through the agents. The Rome agent collects "power" from India and distributes it to the European agents. The Russian masts and Chinese masts are like Indian original workers and, in addition, help the European masts through the Rome distributer. The Russian, Chinese and Indian masts render reciprocal help.
The dead souls from India, who are spiritually degraded, are reborn in the West. The West dead souls who are meritorious are reborn in India and the Indian meritorious are reborn here to advance spiritually.
The Avatar is always born in Asia. Avatars are born only on one world [planet]. As that world cools down and becomes uninhabitable, in the meantime, another world becomes life-evolved and eventually replaces the first one. This is going on from time immemorial. There are crores of worlds.
There was chaitanya [consciousness] when the Ocean was calm; when it moved, imagination started.1
Baba and the four men reached Ajmer on Sunday, 26 July 1942. There Baba and the men stayed at the King Edward Memorial Serai. As it was later revealed, the only reason Baba visited Ajmer was to sit in seclusion at a certain spot for half an hour, but with a different purpose than the seclusion at Kathgodam.
Baba remarked, "I will work here directing human sufferings in the war so that they will bear ultimate good."
First, however, Baba went to contact Chacha. But as the mast was reticent, Baba went again the next morning at 4:00 A.M. with Baidul and Kaka. That day five masts were brought to the hotel, where Baba contacted and fed them.
Baba then traveled nearby to Pushkar where, near the Pushkar Lake, in an old abandoned, dilapidated palace, he found a room in which to remain in seclusion. Baba sat in pin-drop silence, posting the four men in all directions as guards.
Footnotes
- 1.Adi K. Irani's diary, 27-28 July 1942. [Editor's note: In light of what Baba revealed about masts elsewhere, it is possible that in this instance the term "masts" and their various roles in India, Europe, Russia and China includes the entire panoply of spiritual agents (direct, indirect and borrowed), abdals, avtads, walis, pirs, and other advanced souls — including masts — charged with implementing the orders of the Masters.]