A few men had spoken to Baba about his being seen in Andhra by some persons, and other miraculous happenings. Baba stated:
“”To date I have never done a single miracle. What greater miracle to expect than the creation, as we see it, that has come out of me! Seeing me personally in the physical form, and the dead coming to life, are all news to me.
Baba gave an example of a real miracle:
“”Within the past two months, two things have happened. On the one hand, we got a report from U.P. of a dead child coming to life again. Baba Ramdas, of the Digambar sect [naked ascetics], was told about me by his guru and came to see me at Satara [in July]. He was permitted to see me through a screened window. Ramdas was then to go to Nasik for the Sinhasta [Kumbha] Mela. But from the reports subsequently received from [Keshav] Nigam, he never went there because, when he saw me through the screened window, he saw Baba in three forms — Ram, Krishna and Shankar [Shiva]. He may have seen me like that, but it was no miracle by me, and it has nothing to do with spirituality.
Ramdas then wanted to spread my love. He first fasted for 40 days. He then went to a village in U.P., where it was a sheer impossibility to introduce God, Keshav writes. Suffering makes one remember God, but according to me, one can remember God when one is happy. Ramdas prevailed upon the headman of the village to allow him to do kirtan. Very few villagers were present. While the kirtan was being performed, a small girl died. The child's relatives started bewailing their lot. Ramdas had to stop the kirtan. He asked the audience to hear about Meher Baba's love, life and so on.
But he was very afraid because it was his first kirtan in the village with Baba's name introduced. So he asked the father of the dead girl to bring her to him, and putting her in his lap he started the kirtan. Inwardly he must have thought about me and asked my help because the child came back to life after some time. As soon as the news spread, people started coming from surrounding villages.
