Baba also contacted Saheb Ali Shah in Faizabad, and then continued on to Ayodhya.
Ayodhya is the birthplace of Lord Ram. In Ayodhya, Baba contacted a yogi known as Aisruddin, who was much revered.1 Afterwards, Baba indicated that he wished to contact sadhus. The mandali gathered 104 sadhus in one place. Baba did his work of bowing down to them and giving the sadhus a few rupees each before leaving by train for Gonda.
In Gonda on the 22nd, Baba worked with Bhartari Mastan , who wandered about the town in a dazed state. Baba then communed with a mastani named Nurjehan , whom he had first contacted in 1942. This time, she had changed her place of residence and was found at a crossroads, sitting on a heap of rubbish. Baidul coaxed her to sit with Baba in their cycle-rickshaw, and after some persuasion she got in — but insisted upon taking with her the pile of junk. Baba took her to her former room where he sat alone with her. Afterwards, he indicated his contact with Nurjehan was good.
From Gonda, Baba proceeded to the town of Bahraich, where he contacted Shaikh Ahmed Lohe . The mast was covered with an array of iron pieces all over his body. Lohe had his abode at the railway station, where he kept a register in which he would note down the arrival and departure times of trains. Baba went to the waiting room to contact him, and the mandali went to bring him. But at that time, a train had arrived and its engine had been detached to be filled with water. Ill-tempered, the mast was not to be hurried, despite the fact that Baba was waiting for him and always liked to finish his work as soon as possible. The mast protested, claiming that he was "busy"! Finally, after the engine was reattached to the carriages and Lohe had examined it and jotted down something in his register, he went along for the contact. Baba sat with him in the waiting room alone and then departed.
Later that same day, Baba communed with Bhagwan Din Mastan , a high mast with whom he had worked before in 1942. He was also known as Kacheriwala Baba , because the mast would sit in a magistrate's compound and at times enter the courtroom ( kacheri ) and begin cursing those inside, and even the judge himself.
Footnotes
- 1.Aisruddin was also called Bengali Baba.