Krishna got on his bike and, using the rope to pull it and the bamboo to keep it at bay, he led the dog away. It was an arduous task. Using small pebbles, he counted off the miles. It took him five hours to bicycle eleven miles. There was a small pond of water, and Krishna took the dog near the water to give it a final drink before letting it go. As soon as the dog touched its mouth to the water, it died. Krishna was peeved. "If the dog was to die, why not kill it back in Lahore?" he wondered. "Why go to all this trouble of dragging it eleven miles away?"
Leaving the carcass, Krishna returned to the bungalow. It was almost two in the afternoon. Nilu was waiting to inform him that Baba wanted to see him immediately. Baba was walking on the verandah.
"Did you leave the dog?" he asked.
"Yes. It died."
Baba was very happy.
"You went eleven miles?"
Krishna nodded.
"Did you count the miles with the stones?"
Krishna nodded.
Baba smiled, gesturing, "I am very happy. You have done a good job. Go and have lunch."
Krishna stood still. "Baba, what is this?" he asked. "Why did you want me to take that dog eleven miles away?"
Baba gave him a kick and twisted his hair.
"Get out!" he motioned. "Go! Get out of my sight!"
Krishna, however, stood outside the gate. Baba asked him what he wanted. "What was the reason, Baba? Tell me. First you told me to go 20 miles, then 11 miles. After I took the dog all that way, it died there. If you wanted him dead, I could have killed him here in five minutes.
"Why did you make me go to all that trouble? What difference did it make where that dog died? What work were you doing?"
Baba called him back and motioned to him to take a stick and draw a line on the ground. Erasing the line with his foot, Baba indicated to draw another line.
"That's correct," he gestured.
Then Baba revealed, "In the future, India will be divided into two countries — India and Pakistan. This will be the boundary line between the two."
Four years later at the time of Partition, Krishna recalled Baba's words. A dispute arose over the exact boundary line, whether it was to be 11 miles or 20 miles from a certain point.
Baba had brought with him from Ahmednagar a lowly sweeper's son named Amir Syed. His sister was working for the women and she had asked Baba to keep her brother. Baba kept this poor boy in regal style, and Krishna was assigned the duty of serving him. Baba appeared to be very fond of Amir and pampered him. (According to Krishna, "At 5:00 P.M., if Amir would declare it was five in the morning, Baba would say he was correct!")