Eruch suggested that Rano include more than one person on the planes (she had shown only one figure), because people might get the impression that only one person at a time could traverse the planes. Baba agreed. After the drawing was finished, at the end of October it was sent to Ivy, who later had it reproduced.1
On the morning of 7 November 1956, Baba, accompanied by Mehera, Mani, Goher, Rano, Naja and Meheru, drove to Mahabaleshwar, where he was considering holding the sahavas. They stayed overnight at the Ripon Hotel, managed by Kohiyar Satarawala, who was residing in Satara during the slack rainy season, and Kohiyar was allowed to see Baba occasionally. Meanwhile, that day in the Middle-East, the Egyptians accepted a ceasefire with the Israelis.
Ramjoo was also living in Satara with his family and would come to Rosewood daily. But his family was not permitted to visit.
After Bhau had joined Baba, his wife, Rama, and two children, Sheela and Mehernath, had gone to stay with Rama's parents in a village about 100 miles from Nagpur. Sheela was four years old then, and her brother was three. One day Mehernath accidentally knocked his sister against a large vessel of boiling milk, and Sheela suffered severe burns.
On 8 November, a telegram was received in Satara about Sheela. Bhau did not inform Baba because there was a ban on correspondence during Baba's seclusion. But that day at 5:00 P.M., Baba called him to Grafton and asked if any letter or telegram had been received. Bhau said one from Rama had come.
"What does she say?" Baba asked, and Bhau told him.
"Send a telegram immediately to Nana Kher to arrange for Sheela's medical treatment."
"Everything will be done there [at Rama's parents']," Bhau protested. "Why should Nana be troubled?"
This upset Baba so much, he picked up his sandal and threw it forcefully at Bhau.
"Why this talk of trouble to Nana instead of simply following my order? Aren't you ashamed to speak like this to me? Who is sending a telegram to Nana, you or I?"
Bhau kept quiet, and Baba added, "Would you have talked about trouble had I sent Nana a telegram about someone else?"
Bhau replied no, and Baba stated, "You are still attached to Rama, Sheela and Mehernath. Had there been no attachment, you would not have said what you did. Not out of love, but because of attachment, you think they are yours. Had you considered them yours out of love, you would never have said a word about trouble to Nana because I am the one ordering Nana to look after her."
Footnotes
- 1.In a letter to Ivy Duce, dated 31 October 1956, Mani described the painting that Rano did that was later inserted in God Speaks (opposite page 202): "... Rano has completed the drawing (in crayon watercolor) you had asked for — evolution and reincarnation, et cetera. It is a beauty, and (although we did not expect it), Baba directed her often: telling her to add this, alter that, write this, arrange something just so, alter the color of this figure or that bird. It is wonderful how Baba notices the tiniest details which one can often miss." (Rano clarified that Baba only gave her the color of the aspirant's clothes — a light green shirt and coppery brown pants — as well as the title and all of the wording on the chart.)