He then thought the Sadguru knew what he was doing and there was something more to it than met his eye.
He returned to the Master and told him what had transpired. The Master next asked him to go to a jeweler and sell the stone for Rs.100,000! So he went and the jeweler agreed to the sale and paid him the amount. The sanyasi brought the money and the Master told him, "You did not value the stone, but the jeweler knew its true value. He knew that it was in fact a diamond! Only a jeweler's eye could recognize the stone's genuine worth.
"The vegetable vendors, the sweetmeat shopkeepers, the goldsmiths — all are like those who are veiled; they can only evaluate things according to their consciousness."
The Master then told the sanyasi: "I am the Jeweler and I know the capacities and capabilities of those around me. They act according to my wish, leaving their own aside. Those who reside with the Jeweler are truly spiritual. Whomever you have approached in your years of wandering until now have all been like vegetable sellers, shopkeepers and goldsmiths — limited by their own limited viewpoint. So, it is better to remain with the Jeweler who knows your true worth and who, in time, will make you a Jeweler like himself."
In this manner the sanyasi was convinced and held fast to the Master's feet.
And the ascetic monk seated before Baba also learned a good lesson from this tale, especially about Dr. Daulat Singh.
On Thursday, 21 September 1944, Baba left Srinagar for Rawalpindi with Baidul and Kaka. (Adi Sr. was also with them, but was then sent to Nagpur and Raipur.) Baba journeyed on to Peshawar, where he contacted an old mast named Ghafur Rehman . Ghafur was a good mast, in Baba's terms, who sat in front of a hut in a public garden with all manner of rubbish about him.
When Baidul was on his way in search of other masts, he encountered a man who remembered him and told him that ever since 1943, when Meher Baba had contacted Ashaq Baba , a mast in Peshawar, the mast had remained in a tiny hut, and that he had become incontinent, sitting in his own excreta. From all appearances, he concluded, Ashaq had become a majzoob. Although Baba was informed about Ashaq's condition, he did not go to see him.