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Chapter 24: Dehra Dun, 1953

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But I want all to know that it does not befit my lovers to attribute such individual miraculous experiences to my state of the Highest of the High. If I am the Highest of the High, I am above these illusory plays of maya in the course of the Divine Law. Therefore, whatever miraculous experiences are experienced by my lovers who recognize me as such, or by those who love me unknowingly through other channels, they are but the outcome of their own firm faith in me. Their unshakable faith often superseding the course of the play of maya gives them those experiences which they call miracles. Such experiences derived through firm faith eventually do good and do not entangle the individuals who experience them into further and greater bindings of illusion.
If I am the Highest of the High, then a wish of my Universal Will is sufficient to give, in an instant, God-realization to one and all, and thus free every creature in creation from the shackles of ignorance. But blessed is Knowledge that is gained through the experience of ignorance in accordance with the Divine Law. This Knowledge is made possible for you to attain in the midst of ignorance by the guidance of Perfect Masters and surrenderance to the Highest of the High.
On Friday morning, 11 September 1953, Baba left Dehra Dun for "a mast journey without sleep." He was accompanied by Eruch, Pendu, Gustadji, Baidul, Hellan, Kumar, Kishan Singh and Elcha. Hellan drove Kishan Singh's car, and Elcha drove the jeep. They proceeded to Delhi and then toward the Punjab, contacting seven good masts with whom Baba had worked before. Baba contacted saints and sadhus, also, and visited seven renown samadhis and seven dargahs (saints' tombs), as he had previously said he would, paying his obeisance at each one. They traveled day and night from one place to another, and despite the fact that no one had more than a few hours of sleep until they returned five days later, Baba did his work energetically.
Their first stop on the 11th was Deoband, where Baba bowed down at several samadhis.
At 11:00 A.M. they arrived in Meerut. Mansari's brother, Minoo Desai of Navsari, was a Lieutenant Colonel in the army and had been stationed in Meerut for a month. He had no idea Baba would come to visit him, but when he saw Baba, Minoo was ecstatic.
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