The more he talks the more I like him. It would be no exaggeration to say that Babadas is infinitely irrelevant. When Babadas referred earlier to Kalidas, the great poet, and to Surdas, the great devotee, there was absolutely no connection between the two, the topic in question and Babadas himself, except the common factor of the word das [slave] at the end of all three names!
Anna 104's type of personality is more than enough to exhaust the patience of saints and sages and forbearance of rishis and munis, and all here are practically anti-Anna. I know that most of you here would heave a sigh of relief the moment Anna were to be out of the picture. You also know that I cannot help humoring both him and Babadas and that, at times, I go far out of my way in order to keep them near me.
The one point on which none of us here can differ about this precious pair is that, according to their respective abilities and capacities, both of them have rendered great and more or less unique service to me, and I also know that both love me sincerely.
Baba then mentioned different incidents in the lives of the past Avatars, which illustrated their sense of humor:
It is said that once Rasool-e-Khuda [the Messenger of God] felt indisposed, and someone suggested that it was due to an evil eye and that he should sleep on a pillow with an open knife underneath it. He did so, and thereafter declared himself to be all right. Call it ordinary or call it divine; it was Muhammad's sense of humor.
It is a fact that during the childhood of his grandsons, Hasan and Hussain, the Prophet predicted the Moharrum Karbala [battle] to his daughter Fatima, the mother of the martyrs. Now, if the Prophet who, in fact, turned the then savages of Arabia into the torchbearers of faith, love and truth for the world did not even try to avoid the greatest tragedy in Islam, or to stop the most horrible end for his own and only two grandsons, that was only because of God's divine sense of humor in Muhammad.
Likewise, the strife between the Kauravas and the Pandavas and the consequent bloodshed was not only due to the divine sense of humor in Krishna, but its height was reached when Krishna himself died through an arrow that accidentally struck one of his legs from the bow of an ordinary hunter who never had any intention of harming the Rangila [colorful, playful] Avatar in any way.1
Footnotes
- 1.The Kauravas and Pandavas are two clans who fought each other during Krishna's advent.