Chapter 36: Interested In Remaining Disinterested
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A short time later Baba repeated the gesture: he spun his fingers near his head and pointed at Irwin and Edward, but did not explain. Irwin thought: "Baba thinks we are mad."
But when Baba made the same gesture a third time, he remarked through Eruch, "You are divine idiots!" and he told the crowd, "Such love will get them ample reward!"
Later, Irwin asked Eruch, "What do you think Baba means when he says we are divine idiots?"
Eruch tried to explain, "Baba says if you want God you have to be mad. It means those who are mad after God are idiots to the world. The world will not understand you; people will think you are crazy ... mad ... an idiot."
Irwin's confusion was settled.
At one point Baba asked Irwin and Edward what they were thinking. Edward said something, and Irwin's reply was: "I was thinking I would like to look into your eyes, Baba." He had read somewhere that it was almost impossible to look into the eyes of a saint as there was too much power there, and for that reason a saint never looks directly into anyone's eyes.
Baba only commented, "These are both very good thoughts," but he did not look at Irwin.
Irwin was mulling over this, when he suddenly looked up and Baba looked straight into his eyes. What did he see? "I saw Baba had brown eyes!" But later he felt there was a certain part of himself that had not looked up. "Physically I had looked up," he says, "But there was another more subtle aspect of myself which did not."
Harry Kenmore brought the program to a close at 6:00 P.M. by reciting the Master's Prayer in a booming voice. Baba informed the five Westerners to come the next morning to say goodbye before Meherjee drove them to Bombay to catch their flight back to America late that night.
As they were leaving, Baba made a sign of four levels over his head and gestured to the Luck brothers, "One day I will give you the highest experience."
Although the two weeks of darshan had come to a conclusion, on Thursday, 1 June 1961, Deshmukh appeared at the gates of Guruprasad with his family from Nagpur. Meherdas prevented them from entering. Deshmukh's family had had Baba's darshan, but his daughter, Sanjeevani, brought her husband for the first time. Baba saw them from the verandah and beckoned them to come. Seeing Baba, Indumati burst out weeping and Deshmukh too. Allowing them to see him from a distance, Baba retired inside.