Once during their journey, when Baba was in the mandali's third-class compartment, Ramjoo had an asthma attack and went to rest in Baba's second-class compartment, which was relatively empty. Baba asked someone to call Ramjoo, and when Baba was informed that Ramjoo had gone to Baba's compartment, Baba was livid.
"I have come here to spend time with the mandali, to give them my company," he fumed, "and that fellow goes away?!"
Angrily, he dictated on the board to Vishnu, "Say: 'Ramjoo Abdulla, you should jump off the train and die!'
" Baba's mood was so upset that the mandali were trembling. The atmosphere was fraught with tension.
"Go and tell Ramjoo this message!"
Vishnu and Pukar began to cry, thinking if this message were delivered, Ramjoo would surely jump.
"Why are you weeping?" Baba asked Pukar.
Pukar pleaded for Ramjoo to be forgiven. After some time, Baba said to forget all about it and his mood improved.
At Kurduwadi station, Bal Natu hurriedly entered the train and requested that Baba give darshan to the people there. Agreeing, Baba left the compartment. There was a throng of people gathered waiting, and it looked as if it were impossible to take Baba to the third class waiting room. But the mandali managed, surrounding him on all sides. Baba, however, could not be seen by everyone, which gave rise to a disgruntled clamor. To satisfy the crowd, Baba stood on a tea-counter and then on top of a cupboard so that all could see him. Everyone was eager to rush forward to offer flowers and fruit, and pushing and shoving began. After much difficulty, Baba was led back to his coach, and cries of his Jai! reverberated as the train steamed out of the station.
When the train stopped at Sholapur, Ramakrishna Jaju and Maniben Parekh beseeched Baba to grant darshan to the crowd gathered there. So Baba went out of the station, where a multitude was waiting. He dictated this message:
Until I break my silence, I hear through you and speak through you. To know me, you are to love me. I am one of you. Through love, you can know me.
One of the aspects of God is infinite honesty. If you do service to people with honesty, that too is love. One who loves me so as to forget himself can know my Real Self.
God cannot be explained; He listens to the language of the heart.
After the message was delivered, Baba immediately returned to his coach and took his seat in the second class compartment as the train steamed away.
At night, when the train halted at a station, Baba sent for Pendu, Bhau and Sidhu and reproved them, saying, "You people sleep while I keep awake! Have you no shame?"
Pendu replied, "Who says we were sleeping? We were awake all the time. Where is the time for us to sleep?"
Threatening Bhau and Sidhu, Baba told them to return to Meherabad at the next station stop, asking, "What is the use of your coming with me?"
The actual fact was that Jalbhai, Aloba, Dhake, Chhagan, Gustadji, Kishan Singh, Krishna, Krishnaji, Kumar and Shahastrabudhe were indeed sleeping; whereas Pendu, Bhau and Sidhu were the only ones awake. Yet they were reprimanded! When the others found out, this reproof from Baba awakened all.