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Chapter 35: Guruprasad, 1960

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This all-comprehensive Knowledge is obtained in a flash. But to know everything in a flash takes an eternity in the illusion of time while you gradually die to your self. This dying to your self means completely losing yourself in God to find yourself as God.
This dying to your false self is no easy task; raising a corpse to life is child's play compared to it. But once the "impossible" is achieved, there remains nothing else that is impossible.
Baba permitted Harry Dedolchow and Amiya Das to accompany him to Bindra House that afternoon. They then returned to Calcutta.
Baba urged them as they were departing, "Take Baba with you."
Bapusaheb Shinde accepting prasad; Harry Dedolchow (seated left)
Baba was to stay at Guruprasad for the next three months, and like the previous year, Age saw how hundreds of lovers from all over India came to "bathe in the Ocean of Love." Darshan was given every Sunday. Besides this, each day Sadashiv Patil, Meherjee, Jalbhai, Beheram and his sons Sheroo, Rustom and Sohrab would visit, and a jovial atmosphere prevailed.
Every other weekend many from Bombay came, and Nariman and Jim Mistry were allowed to stay at Guruprasad itself. Dr. Deshmukh was a daily visitor and later his family also. Once a week the Poona Center workers (Ramakrishnan, Pratap, Thade, Madhusudan, Shinde, Kamble, Pote, Dhavle and others) came.
Meherwan Jessawala and Jehangu Sukhadwalla would come whenever they could, and thus things were always busy, if not hectic. Jehangu had been transferred to Bangalore the previous December, and moved there with his wife Gulnar. Jehangu relates how they happened to return to Poona:
In 1959, on receiving my transfer orders from the Air Force, Gulnar and I conveyed our reluctance to beloved Baba and expressed our desire to stay and continue working in Poona. Baba told both of us, "Happily proceed to Bangalore and take me with you. My nazar is on both of you." Baba gave us an autographed copy of Stay With God before we left for Bangalore.
Our stay in Bangalore was very uncomfortable as the conditions were deplorable and there was an intense effort on our part to return to Poona. I sent a cable to Baba asking for his permission to resign from my job. Baba cabled this reply: "Do not resign. Leave all to me."
Miraculously, we returned to Poona in three months.
When I met Baba in Guruprasad in April 1960, he was happy to see me back in Poona, and remarked, "God's will has prevailed."
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