Baba contacted him privately by having a sheet hung around them. The blind mast "saw" Baba, and from his silence, Baba "talked" with him. The interchange was something inexplicable. "Baba's language of silence cannot be heard," noted Age, "yet in it all languages are contained!"
The other eleven Panipat masts, who roamed about the town, were each utterly naked in all seasons. One was a young boy of only nine who played in mud pits.
From Panipat, Baba and his companions proceeded to Ludhiana, where on Saturday, 4 May Baba communed with Guni Yatri Dandekar .1 He wore an ochre robe and had an ashram of many men and women disciples. This fifth-plane mast confined himself to a room in solitude all day; in the evenings he gave darshan. When Baba arrived at his ashram, arti was being performed, and after the ceremony, Baba contacted the saintly man alone in his room.
Baba also contacted a mast known as Dandi Swami , a large man who sat all day in a room in a Hindu temple courtyard. He met with people at a daily arti ceremony. As per the prevailing Brahmin orthodoxy of the place, Baba and his companions were required to turn out their pockets and remove their shoes, belts and wallets, so that no leather was on their person when Baba contacted him.
On Sunday, 5 May 1946, in the village of Sangatpur near Phagwara, Baba again contacted Nekishah Baba. Baba gave him sugar and grain, which the mast wanted powdered and mixed with water. As soon as the mast asked for this, Baba sat down and, with Baidul's assistance, worked a small handmill, grinding wheat into flour and then mixing it with sugar and water. He fed this paste to Nekishah with his own hands, and afterwards the mast gave a little to Baba, which he ate. In such ways does the Lord of Love become the slave of his true lovers!
In a neighboring village, Baba again contacted Khudai Baba, who made Baba sit in a chair and offered him a cup of tea.
Baba then left for Amritsar, where he communed with a good mast named Bala Sain . This mast was of the Khoja sect.2
One of the most significant contacts was Kala Sain , who was famous in Amritsar and was reputed to be well over 110 years old. This venerable man seldom spoke to anyone and kept aloof, hidden near a shrine in a wild and lonely place on the outskirts of the city.
Footnotes
- 1.Guni Yatri literally means of the fifth plane.
- 2.Khoja is a sect founded by the Aga Khan, a Muslim leader in India.