Trains will be looted and derailed, due to sabotage on a gigantic scale. There will be great carnage. Japan will try and attack Bengal and other parts of the country with their naval armaments. (Half of Bengal would rather join Japan.)
All this chaos in India will dwarf the developments in Europe and America. Germany is not going to be easily defeated even if Tunisia falls. The worst aspect of the war will manifest in August.
Russia is not on friendly terms with America and England, who want to crush her, as they fear Russia like Frankenstein! Stalin knows this, and because he is now busy fighting Germany, he keeps quiet and pretends friendship with America and England. But when the time comes, he will assert himself. Although Russia will not join with Germany, it will neither be in union with the Allies.
It is a pity. Stalin hates all three — Germany, England and America. Russia's friendship with Japan is significant. The Japanese are cunning from the very beginning.
All this will take more years to subside and finally come to a settlement.
Curiously, it was reported in the newspaper that Churchill, while speaking to a group of coal-miners, had remarked in hindsight about Hitler's mistake in not invading Britain in 1940: "I have a feeling sometimes that some 'guiding hand' had interfered. I have a feeling that we had a Guardian because we serve a great cause and that we shall have that Guardian so long as we serve that cause faithfully."
Chanji noted, "However unconsciously spoken by the speaker, they literally describe an aspect of the Divine Plan, as explained Baba."
While the meeting was going on with Don, Deshmukh, Babadas and D. G. Shahastrabudhe arrived and joined the meeting.1 Baba spent most of the day with the mandali until four in the afternoon. He was in an exceptionally good mood and commended them:
I am extremely happy when I see men like Don. What a spirit of self-sacrifice and selflessness in giving up everything, everyone so near and dear, and while serving the government, dedicating all to me. What sacrifice and service could be greater? That is what makes me happy with my men [mandali]. They are men [heroes] in the real sense of the word.
The time is very near when these special selected ones — 24 of them — will have the highest experience, as also others of the circle.
Footnotes
- 1.Shahastrabudhe owned a guest house in Mahabaleshwar and supplied food for the mandali when Baba was there. He believed deeply in Baba.