During this period, a man named Tatya Saheb Jadhavrao Bhuinjkar, from the village of Bhuinj, came to Satara for Baba's darshan. Jadhavrao beseeched Baba to come to his village to give darshan to the villagers there. Baba agreed and designated the 18th of December for his visit.
Bhuinj (also called Bhuing), a small village fifteen miles from Satara, was the home of King Shivaji's mother Jijabai in the early 1700s. Tatya Saheb was a direct descendent of this illustrious Maratha family and was called Sardar (a respected, esteemed person). He resided in the ancestral mansion and was quite well known. Baba informed him he would not spend more than an hour in Bhuinj, and Tatya Saheb arranged matters accordingly.
Meanwhile, Baba called an inspector of police named K. S. Savant and his wife, Hemlata, to Satara, and they arrived on the morning of Sunday, 18 December 1955. They were old Baba lovers, experiencing a certain difficulty that Baba wished to clear up. At home, Hemlata would sit in her prayer room absorbed in Baba's remembrance. She would neither cook nor care for her children, who would go hungry until Savant returned from work in the evening. He had to cook their food, feed and look after them. Savant had written about this to Baba, and so Baba sent for them.
Baba advised Hemlata, "I am very happy with your love. I know how you remember me day and night, and remain focused on me. Your mind never wanders and this is good. I am God and so I am in everyone. But while I am happy in you, I am unhappy in Savant and the children. When I feel hungry in these children and do not get food, then I become unhappy with you. If, in these children, I do not get clean clothes to wear, I feel unhappy. When in Savant, after a hard day's work, I return home and find the children miserable, I am unhappy with you.
"So in you, you keep me happy, but in Savant and the children, you keep me most unhappy! If you keep me happy in all, I will be so pleased with your love that I will even change your fortune!"
Baba's simple admonition affected Hemlata so much that she was totally transformed. On their way from Poona, she had not uttered a single word to Savant or the children, and was in a withdrawn mood. But after listening to Baba, she smiled and embraced Savant, and the couple left happily. Baba had shown her the true way to worship him. Sitting in meditation is not enough; one must fulfill one's practical responsibilities.