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Chapter 29: Brief Darshans & Seclusions

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Baba left to spend the night at Meherazad, and early the next morning Adi proceeded to Sakori and delivered Baba's message to Godavri. She responded, "Baba considers me as his Yashoda, and it is the wish of Yashoda that he remain here until evening."
Coming to know of Baba's visit to Sakori, lovers from Ahmednagar, Poona, Bombay and other places had gathered there. Leaving Meherazad at about 7:30 A.M. on Thursday, 26 January 1956, Baba reached Rahata village (one mile from Sakori) an hour later. In Rahata, Adi delivered Godavri's message, and Baba was happy to hear it.
When Baba reached Sakori, the residents of the ashram and his lovers received him a few hundred yards away. Wagh, the manager of the ashram, garlanded him even before he could get out of the car. Baba was taken in a procession with music and singing. In the vanguard was a beautifully decorated white horse (symbolic of Kalki , the Avataric incarnation in the Kali Yuga). When Baba came to the temple, the high priest, Vasant Deshmukh (Chhagan's brother), performed puja. Baba's car slowly advanced toward Yeshwant Rao's newly constructed residence. Baba stepped out of the car, and Godavri garlanded him and laid her head on his feet. The rest of the kanyas (nuns) followed suit.
While Baba was seated on a sofa at Yeshwant Rao's home, his arti was sung, and he inquired about Godavri's health.
Afterward he informed her, "I will stay here until 4:00 P.M."
Leaving Yeshwant Rao's residence, Baba went to Upasni Maharaj's hut and sat inside for a while. From there he walked to Maharaj's samadhi, where a gaadi decorated with flowers had been prepared for Baba in one corner, opposite Maharaj's own gaadi. One of the kanyas sang the song specially composed by Baba (in the 1920s) for Maharaj, which was sung during Maharaj's lifetime. Later she sang another song exalting Baba. In a happy mood, Baba smiled broadly.
He asked where Godavri had gone and was told she was preparing his food in the kitchen. He asked Wagh whether there was electricity in the hut, and Wagh replied, "There is no electricity now, but on occasions it is temporarily provided by a generator."
Purandhare interjected, "Since Baba is asking about it, electricity will certainly be connected."
Baba remarked, "Electricity will add to the splendor of this place."
One of the kanyas named Jiji was an old lover of Maharaj's and a resident of Sakori. She could not be present, because she was ill in Hyderabad.
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