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Chapter 25: Mass Darshans In Hamirpur & Andhra

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Baba asked Pukar's mother, "How is Pukar?"
"You know that!" she replied.
"By making him do hard labor, I will make him thin," Baba joked.
"Do as you like," she said. "Pukar is yours."
Pukar's wife was expecting at any moment.
Baba assured her, "I have blessed you with a very good soul who is to come. Don't worry about anything."
He gave her special prasad, reminding her to remember him. Baba also visited Pukar's flour mill in Hamirpur, and poured grain into it with his own hands.
After these visits, Baba immediately left for Ingohta, where arrangements for darshan had been made by Laxmichand Paliwal and his brother, Tikaram, assisted by Bhavani Prasad and his brother, Bindra Prasad. Baba reached Ingohta and began giving darshan.
At 3:45 P.M., this message was dictated to the crowd gathered there :
We are all one from the beginningless beginning to the endless end. We were, we are, we will remain. I am in you all. I am poor, rich, man, woman, small, big, but only Real and One for those who love me. I give you all my blessings to love me, and by your love, make me your slave.
Hundreds of men, women and children of the village took Baba's darshan. Afterward Baba drove to visit Bindra Prasad's home. As his car slowly crept through the crowd, it seemed as if it were raining flowers. Baba stayed that night at Paliwal's home, where an exhibition of a game with long bamboo staffs was performed for his enjoyment.
Very early the next morning, 9 February 1954, Baba left for Mahoba. En route he gave darshan in Panwari where Pukar's in-laws lived. Kishan Singh recorded in his diary: "The display of their songs by the kirtan singers with finger-cymbals in their hands, backed by the heat of the burning love and devotion with which the display was given, can hardly be forgotten. Every part of their bodies seemed jumping in ecstasy as they played the instruments and danced with joy at finding Baba among them."
From Panwari, Baba proceeded to Mahoba, where darshan arrangements had been made by Gaya Prasad's brother, Ramsevak Khare.
On this occasion, Babu Ramprasad expressed a wish to erect a "Baba-temple" in Nauranga, and Baba advised him to remember, "My temple is in your heart alone."
Babu Ramprasad replied, "The temple will be built solely to keep you there. It will be a symbol of your visit, on the basis of which we will be able to keep you always in our hearts. We wish for a medium of your remembrance, Baba."
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