Then Abdur Rehman said, "I dreamt that Khak Saheb was talking to you, Baba."
At this the Master said, "If his dream is true, then Khak Saheb will return from Delhi today."
After breakfast, Baba ordered cricket to be played, saying, "Let Ramjoo and Abdulla [Jaffer] be captains and select their respective teams."
Neither knew the first thing about cricket and Ghani began teasing them, "Abdulla and Khak would make a beautiful pair as captains with their spectacles sliding down their noses!"
This made Baba laugh, and he remarked, "Khak will surely return today." After a game of cricket was finished, Khak and Asar unexpectedly arrived at the Manzil.
Khak Saheb and Asar Saheb had been staying in Delhi for the past ten days to persuade the Mohammedan Sufi scholar Hassan Nizami to write an introduction to Upasni Maharaj's Urdu biography, which was to be titled Gareebon ka Aasara (Refuge for the Meek). However, there had been no news from them for some days. Hassan Nizami had agreed to write the introduction, and they had informed him of Baba's prediction of the coming manifestation of the Messiah, saying that Meher Baba had indicated the "first spark" would be in India, especially Karachi.1
After the evening meals, Baba gathered the mandali and discussed the topic of his going to Sakori:
My sufferings are now becoming unbearable and, by going to Sakori, Maharaj will take a little of the load off my shoulders; but because of this, Maharaj will have to suffer much internally.
He may even beat me, abuse me and disgrace me in the presence of all at the time of Diwali [the Hindu festival of lights]. I have been telling you for months that advanced saints and mahatmas will disgrace and beat me, because at this moment the spiritual world is against me. So it is possible Maharaj may take the matter into his own hands by insulting and beating me. If I don't go, however, and continue staying here, I shall have to suffer terribly.
Except for Munshiji and Vajifdar, all the men agreed that Baba should go to Sakori, and he decided to leave that night. Baba then told Ghani to bring a particular passage from Swami Vivekananda's writings, which Ghani read:
The only true teacher is he who can convert himself, as it were, into a thousand persons at a moment's notice. The only true teacher is he who can immediately come down to the level of the student — transfer his soul to the student's soul, see through the student's eyes, hear through his ears, and understand through his mind.
Footnotes
- 1.Five months later, in March 1923, Nizami came to Manzil-e-Meem to meet Baba, but Baba was not meeting outsiders then and did not see him.