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Chapter 26: Three Incredible Weeks

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Baba invited the Westerners to come to Meherazad the next morning, Thursday, 16 September 1954, where he introduced them to Kaikobad, Gustadji and Kaka, and also showed them the Blue Bus, the New Life Caravan, the Manonash Cabin (later Eruch's room) and other rooms.
"During the Manonash period, I worked for the entire world!" Baba commented at one point.
While showing them the room he would sleep in during his seclusion at Meherazad (Pendu's room), Baba asked Eruch to narrate an incident that had taken place at the time. According to Eruch, he was on guard that night when Baba was inside the room. He had orders not to open the door unless Baba clapped, and if he did clap to come immediately. Eruch was sitting outside with a lantern and a flashlight. At 2:00 A.M., he saw a snake, trying to slide under Baba's door. Eruch pinned its tail with his flashlight. Just then, Baba clapped. Had Eruch obeyed Baba's orders and opened the door immediately, the snake would have entered the room. So Eruch waited until the snake slid away. He then entered the room, and Baba asked the reason for the delay. Eruch told him, and he simply smiled.
"But," added Baba, "I always say when there are conflicting orders, always obey the first order."
The incident of Gustadji almost falling into the lake, while on nightwatch at Girnar Mountain, was also described.
The Westerners were taken around the garden on the women's side where Rano and Goher met them. They were shown the house and Baba's bedroom upstairs, and Baba took them up Seclusion Hill, where he pointed out the spot where the mandali had stayed and further up where he had done his work. While climbing the hill, again Baba would pick up and toss pebbles into the distance, and while descending he did the same.
with Kumar and Baidul Seclusion Hill, 16 September 1954
Back at Meherazad, he told the group: "If you aren't in shape, you're likely to feel this walk in your legs for two days," and added, "You are really fortunate to have come with me on the hill, with my leading the way. That is a very dear piece of land, that hill. When I was there, I fasted on only very weak tea. The hill is now barren, but a time will come when there will be much construction there by my disciples."
Fruit juice was served, and afterwards Meheru brought Baba's old, patched kamli coat which he had worn continuously for eight years from 1921.
"This is the most sacred of my possessions," Baba told them. "What it has in it will be revealed after I drop my body. Then, thousands and thousands of men and women will come to worship it."
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