“”Baba corrected him, "Why use your head? Just do as I tell you! By becoming 'wise,' you yourself come to trouble!"
Citing the following instance, Baba related:
“”Once a tipsy man, like yourself, came in contact with the Perfect Master Shams-e-Tabriz, and the man prayed to the Master to guide him on the Path. Shams advised him to do as he told him, without altering his original instructions by using his common sense. But the man could not refrain from doing so. Once both of them came to a riverbank. They wanted to cross the river, but it was flooded. There was no way to go across it.
So the man asked Shams how they should proceed. Shams told him: "Follow me, repeating 'Shams, Shams!' " And while saying this, Shams stepped into the river and began crossing it. The man followed with "Shams, Shams, Shams!" on his lips.
After a while, he noticed that Shams, too, was saying something. Listening closely he heard Shams repeating "Allah, Allah! Allah!" and saw that the river was parting for him. So the man thought: "When Shams is saying 'Allah, Allah!' why should I say 'Shams, Shams?' "
And using his powers of reasoning, he stopped the repetition the Master had given him and began saying "Allah, Allah!" and was thus drowned!
Baba concluded, "Aloba, I have told you a thousand times: Do as I say and don't use your discrimination or discretion. You come to trouble by doing so against my orders."
Aloba's nature was such that even when Baba gave someone else an order to do something, Aloba would run to do it himself.
“”Baba's mood would often be disturbed by this, and he reproached Aloba: "Don't do anything I have not asked you to do. If a snake bites me, even then you should not come to my aid unless I call you. If I fall out of my chair, you should not come unless I ask you. Even if someone comes and attacks me — shoots or stabs me — you should not come unless called."
Nevertheless, one day in the hall when Baba was adjusting himself in the chair, thinking Baba was uncomfortable, Aloba leapt up to offer Baba a pillow for his back.
“”"Why have you come near me?" Baba asked, annoyed. "You have spoilt my mood!"
Aloba was always in such a hurry to carry out Baba's orders that even before Baba had finished giving them — without listening fully to the instructions — he would start to execute them.
One night Baba dictated these lines to Bhau:
“”We walked so fast that even while nearing the Goal
We could not check our speed and went past it!
Again the following day, Aloba committed the same error and these lines were read to him, after which Baba remarked, "This is your state!"
Another hapless incident involving Aloba concerned the repetition of the invocation that Baba had given the mandali during this period. Aloba's time for doing it was when Baba was with the other mandali in the hall. This prevented Aloba from being with Baba there, a source of great distress to him. Once Baba sent for him, and with the audible repetition on his lips, he came.
“”Baba insisted, "Stop the japa, sit here and go on looking at me. Go on! Set aside my pleasure and please yourself!"
Thereupon, Aloba began a long rigmarole of how he could not stand to be so isolated from Baba.
