"When we [would be] watching the match, Baba's mind was somewhere else; his fingers were working, and he was looking somewhere, at something. He had explained that his purpose in going to the matches was not just to see the game; he said that at that time, when 30 to 40 thousand people were gathered there, their concentration would be on the game. He said that he took advantage of the concentration of all those thousands, and did his work in mass contact."
On Friday, 20 November 1953, Baba visited the mausoleum shrine of Nizamuddin, one of the most celebrated Sufi saints in India.1 He also paid his respects at a few other places in Delhi, accompanied by Kain and Keki Desai.
While returning to Kain's house, Baba instructed both, "Henceforth never visit any religious place — temple, church, or mosque — or go to any sadhu, saint or wali."
Baba did not wish to see anyone during his four-day stay in Delhi. But when those of his close ones expressed their anxiousness to meet him, he agreed to see them for five minutes on the last day of his visit. And so on the 21st, a few of Baba's close lovers gathered at Kain's home at 2:30 P.M.2 It was a lighthearted occasion. Baba first asked each about his health, and joked back and forth with each one.
Principal Niranjan Singh of Camp College requested that Baba give a special message for students, and Baba replied in a joking manner, "When I was in the toilet this morning, I thought of you and felt certain you would ask for a message. So in accordance with your scientific mind I dictated a message, and another one also."
Baba directed Eruch to read out the message "Material and Spiritual Science" that he had dictated at 7:45 A.M.:
Just as God is infinite, imagination is also infinite, and all that has come out of imagination, which is called the shadow of God, and that imagination is also infinite. We can imagine anything and everything ad infinitum.
Science, as is understood today, deals with energy and matter. This material science is in the domain of the mind.
Footnotes
- 1.Nizamuddin (1236–1325) was the author of the celebrated Persian translations of the Tales of Bidpai and of the Sanskrit Panchatantra.
- 2.Those who attended included: Principal Niranjan Singh and his wife, Professor Jagindar Singh and his wife Lala Tehlram, Harjiwan Lal and family, Dhar, Ganjoo, Hakumat Rai, Trilok Singh, Sahaj Singh, Wing Commander Dadi Mehta, Mohan Lal Sharma (husband of Prakashwati) and Kusum Mohkam Singh.