At 2:30 P.M., there was an interval for tea, and in his cabin, Baba discussed what to do about Kuttawala and Sherlekar. It was arranged to send them all to Ahmednagar, and Sherlekar was given Rs.30 for their expenses.
Thereafter, Baba reentered the hall and listened to a ghazal written by the deceased Khak Saheb and sung by Madhusudan and his bhajan group.
He then addressed the sahavas group: "The mast Kuttawala Baba has practically no consciousness, and his movements are automatic. He has a large following in Nagpur."
Referring to the masts Ali Shah and Mohammed, Baba observed:
There are not many in the world like them. But there are still greater souls on the Path. These two masts are immersed in my love, and are like gems on my fingers. On the spiritual path, gradually one loses his gross consciousness. Even one on the first plane is so enchanted that he has no awareness of the gross existence. It is the same on all subsequent planes. With progress on the Path, when one reaches the seventh plane, he has lost his gross, subtle and mental consciousness, and thus, by stages, realizes himself. Even after Realization, if the body is not dropped, then one behaves like a bal-unmant-pishash or what is called a majzoob. It is no joke to attain this state. In the first plane, one loses his body consciousness and behaves like a madman.
For the worldly man, it is difficult to distinguish between a worldly mad and a spiritually mad mast, and it is still more difficult to understand whether the spiritually mad belongs to the first plane or the second plane, or the third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh. One in a million regains normal consciousness [gross, subtle and mental], and he is then a Sadguru. Simultaneously, he is on an equal level with you all. He remains as you are and he is also superconscious at all levels.
Baba rarely allowed the men to perform his arti, but at 4:15 P.M., Madhusudan was permitted to sing the Hindi arti, Divya Sanatana, he had composed a few years before. Taking the sahavas group with him, Baba went to see the masts Ali Shah and Mohammed in the Family Quarters near Arangaon.