As soon as he uttered these words, the woman swooned and fell unconscious. When she regained consciousness, there was a glow of relief on her face. The ghost had apparently been released by the Master.
Another day Tajuddin was conversing with those gathered before him, when he suddenly turned to a visitor and asked, "What are you doing here? Your wife is dead." The man's wife was visiting relatives, but the man raced home and was handed a telegram informing him of his wife's untimely demise.
A Hindu king named Raja Raghuji Rao Bhosle became devoted to Tajuddin. At the slightest hint, Bhosle was ready to dedicate everything he owned to Tajuddin. Although he was a member of the local royalty, he would often come to the asylum for Tajuddin's advice and blessing. One day when the crowds at the asylum were unusually large, the Master hinted to the raja that his work in the asylum was finished and he wished to change seats. Bhosle became determined to have Tajuddin freed at any cost.
Raja Bhosle went to the authorities and begged them to free Tajuddin. At first, the officials adamantly refused. The city was prospering from the revenue of so many visitors; Tajuddin Baba had become Nagpur's greatest tourist attraction. In September 1908, after posting a sizeable bond of Rs.2,000, Raja Bhosle brought Tajuddin to live at his palace, Shakkardara , in the heart of the city. The raja gave Tajuddin his own private bungalow, called Lal Kothi (the Red House), a few hundred yards from the palace. Tajuddin was then 47 years old.
After more than sixteen years in the mental asylum, Tajuddin was now residing comfortably in the palace of a king. But a fakir is after all always a fakir — one without any worldly possessions except the barest necessities. Tajuddin's only real need was to look after the welfare of others.
Raja Bhosle devoted one room of his palace as a prayer room where he would perform his daily worship ceremonies. But when Tajuddin first moved into the raja's compound, he would go to that room and defecate and urinate three times a day in front of the stone Hindu idol to which the raja prayed. This supposedly sacred room had become the Master's toilet! But the raja's faith in Tajuddin's perfection was so deep that he humbly cleaned it himself without taking it as an insult to his religious practices.1
Footnotes
- 1.One purpose of Tajuddin's dishonoring Raja Bhosle's idols in this way may have been to prevent or mitigate any effect of tantric practices of Bhosle, performed in that room, from influencing Bhosle in a spiritually harmful way.