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Chapter 31: Blood On Indian Soil

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One day at Ashiana, Arnavaz was feeling indisposed and Baba told her to take Anacin before sleeping. Baba was in his room that night with Bhau by his side. When Arnavaz was about to retire for the night, she remembered about the Anacin, but by now, it was too late to go out and buy some, as all the shops were closed. There was some in the house, but it was in the room which Baba was using, and it was unthinkable to disturb Baba once he had gone to bed. Eruch, however, told her he would go inside and get some for her, so that she would not break Baba's order.
Eruch carefully pried open the door and slowly went inside. Baba was snoring loudly. Picking up the bottle, Eruch left without making any noise whatsoever. He proudly handed the medicine to Arnavaz, and congratulated himself on his cleverness in being able to steal something from under God's nose.
But as soon as Eruch had left, Baba woke up and asked Bhau who had come into the room. Bhau told him, and he was astonished that Baba knew someone had entered the room though he seemed to be in deep sleep. Baba motioned to Bhau to summon Eruch, and he asked him the reason for his entering his room.
Eruch told him, and Baba warned, "Remember that I see everything even from my sleep!"
Eruch's cunning turned to water, and later, he asked Bhau why he had told Baba. "I did not tell him!" Bhau said. "He himself asked who had entered the room."
Baba gave another demonstration of his omniscience during this stay in Bombay. Baidul's daughter, Sarwar, was married and was living in Bombay with her husband, Jehangir Taraporewala. Once the couple had a heated quarrel and Sarwar became so upset that she decided to leave Jehangir. At the same time, Baba was in Ashiana, taking Baidul to task on the pretext of not bringing a certain mast to him.
Suddenly, Baba instructed him, "Go and bring Sarwar here immediately."
Sarwar's residence was a couple of miles away, and Baidul went in a taxi. When he arrived, Sarwar was walking out the door with her bags packed! Baidul told her that Baba wanted her, and she was amazed that Baba could have known about her predicament. Leaving the luggage at home, she accompanied her father to Baba. Baidul knew nothing of her quarrel with her husband, and Sarwar did not tell him.
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