In fact, my prayers and appeals could provoke a perceptible response from the Unknown. This went on for a long time until I began to misuse my supernatural achievements by speculating in cotton futures and in other gambling endeavors.
At first, this gambling became extremely lucrative, and I did not find it necessary to continue working as an engineer; so I left it and paid more and more attention to this new "business". To my utter horror (he started bitterly sobbing), I soon found that the divine gift had vanished!
Now, despite my best efforts, I am unable to regain that state. I cry day and night in vain, but there is no response from Him. Leaving aside the mercenary benefit I derived — which I no longer care about and will never indulge in again — I really cannot describe the intense joy and bliss I felt while in intimate communion with Him.
Although I have lost the treasure of foreknowledge, I can still feel and perceive things unseen and unfelt by ordinary human beings. Hence, I need no introduction or explanation about Meher Baba, in whom I find the greatest manifestation of divinity. I firmly believe that Meher Baba can restore my lost treasure to me in the twinkling of an eye if he so wishes. He is very great indeed!
Baba was highly pleased by Burjor's frankness and enjoyed hearing his story.
Meanwhile, an uneducated, lower-caste man from Ahmednagar named Kashinath was living in Bombay and working as a dhobi (laundryman). The mandali had been sending all their clothes, as well as Baba's, to him. But each time the laundry was returned a few items were missing, or someone else's clothes had been exchanged for theirs. Kashinath was warned about this several times, but it continued. On the 6th of October, he made the same mistake again, and Baba sternly rebuked him, then dismissed his service. But Kashinath pleaded for forgiveness. Baba agreed to reemploy him on the condition that Kashinath stay in the Manzil and agree to wash only his and the mandali's clothes there, and not bring in any outsider's clothes to wash. Kashinath accepted Rs.50 per month as his wages and joined those staying in Manzil-e-Meem.
That afternoon, Baba called Ghani to massage his legs, and as he was doing it, Baba uttered, "May God help you!"
Ghani burst out laughing and when Baba asked him the reason, he replied, "We generally find it very difficult to follow the drift of your utterances.