Baba slept little on the night of 21 August due
to his Universal work. The next day he continued the spiritual work by
going into seclusion in his room for three hours, and then walking up
and down the back verandah. Kaka began cooking rice and dal once a day
for himself and Adi, and Adi did the marketing in Eruch's
absence.
Baidul and Eruch left for Saharanpur on the 22nd
to collect poor people for a specific day, according to Baba's
instructions, and to look for masts, if any resided there. They returned
at 10:00 P.M. on the night of the 23rd with a sixth-plane mast-saint Rehmatullah Baba . Baba
had worked with Rehmatullah several times before. The mast wore tattered
clothing and seemed to recognize Baba, because he touched Baba's
feet as soon as he entered the house. Baba did not like this the least. The mast spent the night on the verandah, but in the morning they
discovered he had disappeared. After an hour's laborious search,
they found Rehmatullah at the train station and brought him back. Baba
communed with him and then sent him back to Saharanpur with Baidul and
Eruch, with instructions to bring another mast.
On Sunday, 25 August 1946, Baba continued to
remain in seclusion for three hours. Late that night Eruch and Baidul
brought a high mast from Pinjaur named Bhagwan Nath . The mela (fair) for sadhus at Hardwar was in progress at the time, so
only first-class tickets could be purchased. Thus Eruch, Baidul and the
filthy, nearly naked mast Bhagwan Nath entered the first-class
compartment — against the vehement protests of the other
passengers. After arriving at the bungalow with Bhagwan Nath, Baba
instructed each of the four men to keep a careful watch over the mast in
shifts of two hours each throughout the night. This was done, but the
next morning when they were otherwise occupied, the mast ran away. Amazingly, they found him nine miles away in Hardwar!
After this escapade, Eruch and Baidul returned to
Saharanpur to finalize details of the upcoming poor program. Baba
finished working with the mast sooner than expected, and directed Adi
Sr. to arrange to have the mast escorted back to Pinjaur. Adi found a
man willing to accompany Bhagwan Nath, and then booked them bus
reservations. But after traveling only twelve miles, the man returned
with the mast, saying the mast had gotten off the bus, refused to
reboard it and was generally unmanageable. Bhagwan Nath was therefore
kept at their house again.
On the 27th, Adi was sent by Baba south to
Bangalore and then Ahmednagar. Meanwhile Baba and Kaka with the mast
Bhagwan Nath left Jwalapur for Saharanpur. Kaka was completely
overworked, between attending single-handedly to Baba and looking after
the mast, but he managed. At Saharanpur, they found a man to take Bhagwan Nath back to his village.