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Chapter 26: Three Incredible Weeks

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Rani Mohini of Dehra Dun had come with her husband, Raja Charat Singh. Like Godubai, she, too, had come with a firm purpose: to ask Baba to keep his promise about giving back her deceased daughter. But when she neared Baba for prasad, his twinkling eyes and enchanting expression made her forget also — and forget forever! By fulfilling desires, bindings are created; by eradicating them, their chain is broken. Baba made Rani Mohini forget for all time. This was his miracle, which never furthered attachments, but uprooted them.
A woman with two small children came to Baba. Baba turned to Bhau and asked who she was. "My wife, Rama," he said.
"What are the children's names?"
"The girl is Sheela and the boy Mehernath, whom you have named."
Baba asked Rama, "With whom have you come?"
"With my brother, Dhiraj Singh [Parmar]."
Baba said, "I want to keep Dhiraj in Meherabad until the meeting, so how will you go back to Nagpur?"
(Rama was then residing with her parents in a village 100 miles from Nagpur.)
"There are many here from Nagpur — Sherlekar, Godubai, Tara Pankhraj, Asha Kher and others," Rama said.
"Are you happy that Bhau is staying with me?"
"Very happy."
"I am also happy with you."
Baba kissed Sheela and Mehernath, then asked Bhau, "Have you talked with them yet?"
"No, Baba," he replied. "I am seeing them only now."
"Be with them for five minutes and then let them go."
Bhau did so, after which Rama returned to Pandoba's house in Ahmednagar with the other women from Nagpur.
Sherlekar had brought the high mast Kuttawala from Nagpur. The mast approached Baba, carrying an old rusty tin full of decaying rice. He held out the tin to Baba, who lovingly ate the rice! He fondly embraced the mast and was quite loving with him.
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