A youth from Kashmir named Jagdish insisted on touching Baba's feet. "I will touch his feet under all circumstances," he shouted. He was prevented but cried out, "No power on Earth will stop me from doing it!"
Eruch tried to console the boy, "To touch his feet would be against his express wish."
Jagdish replied, "I am not going to obey this instruction."
Kumar and Kishan Singh were about to lead Jagdish away, but Baba stated, "Let him touch my feet."
He did it and wept bitterly.
Baba lovingly pacified him, spelling out, "I do not permit anyone to touch my feet or bow down to me. You have done it with love and that is good. Now, make the most of it by keeping me in your heart always, and go on loving me more and more until you realize me! Would you do it?"
"Assuredly, Baba."
"I am very happy with you. Now my conscience tells me to touch your feet. Let me do it!"
Jagdish kept crying as Baba touched his feet. To make amends for the homage paid to him, Baba also touched the feet of seven of the mandali. The boy was led to the verandah, much distressed, where he sat weeping.
Hindu, Muslim, Parsi, Christian and Sikh — people of all religions came for Baba's darshan. When some Sikhs stood before him, Baba asked them to repeat a couplet of Guru Nanak. When they recited it, he advised them to practice in their daily lives what the Perfect Master Nanak had preached and added:
If, when we grow up, we become like children — childlike, not childish — then we can love God, because to love God we have to be desireless. Only one desire should be there: the one longing to be united with God. So when we grow up and become childlike, we can then honestly love God. We find God everywhere. Nothing can then shake, alter or stop that perpetual happiness, but we must be honest seekers of Truth. Great Masters have taught us to act as we think, and not boastingly. Nanak, who was God Personified, always acted as Nanak Das [the Servant]. I give you all my blessings.
The son of Mr. Sagane of Amraoti was a cadet at the National Defense Academy in Dehra Dun. He came to Baba dressed in his military uniform and said that he had received a letter from his father about Baba's Amraoti programs and was sorry he could not attend them. After a few more remarks he asked Baba, "When will you break your silence?"