Suppose you go to sleep, and I appear to you in your dream, saying: "Shastri, this is just a dream." You will reply: "How can this be so? I see the sun, the sky ... I see you so lovingly talking to me. It is too true to be a dream!" But when you wake up, you say to yourself: "What Baba had said in the dream is a fact."
At present, you see me sitting with you. Now I say: "All that you see and feel in this 'awake' state is also a dream!" The whole universe is but a dream. Call it a 'waking-dream.' When by my grace you will realize God, you will know that what I am saying now is the Truth.
On Friday, 20 May 1960, according to Baba's instructions, Kumar arrived from Rishikesh with Nilkanthwala mast. The mast was kept at Gunatai Gadekar's house, and Baidul and Kumar looked after him. From the next day, Baba began going there every day at 2:00 P.M. (in the intense summer afternoon heat) to work with him. During the mast's five-day stay in Poona, Nilkanthwala delighted in pouring Himalayan-brand talcum powder over his head and body.
Prem Khilnani came to Guruprasad one day with his wife Girja, and another woman who was a relative. They had not sought Baba's permission before bringing their relative.
Baba asked Khilnani, "Why have you brought her [the relative]?"
Khilnani replied, "Girja has brought her."
"Send Girja and the woman home immediately!"
Without understanding why, Khilnani complied with Baba's wish. The relative was startled and asked, "What kind of a saint behaves like this and insults devotees who come for darshan? I made a mistake by coming here." Girja then realized that the woman was not ready to accept Baba as God, being too narrow-minded.
Baba sent Aloba (who was visiting) to tell Girja not to worry, and later Baba told Khilnani to bring Girja to Guruprasad.
Prem and Girja would quarrel incessantly. When they came to Guruprasad, the couple would invariably argue with one another before Baba, who would patch things up.
On one occasion, Baba addressed both, "I control and manage the whole universe, but I cannot manage both of you! Despite my daily explanations, you continue to fight."
On another occasion Prem, Girja and their ten-year-old son, Vinod, came to Guruprasad.
Prem embraced Baba, who then asked, "Where is your younger son, Raj?"