My words will be so sacred even they will work wonders!
When the mandali asked why it was necessary for Baba to undergo such painful suffering, he replied:
That is beyond your intellect to understand. It is essential for my future work, which will be tremendous and affect the whole world. It is the duty of the God-realized saliks to give an outward push to the subtle universe; but the "Head" has also to prepare his circle — make the members realize God — as well as give an outward push to the gross universe.
On some selected few of those Realized, a duty is imposed to come down and bring up those in the world who are worthy to be taken up [Realized] — those who have the preparedness. This preparedness does not come offhandedly, quickly, or easily. It requires ages and ages of sufferance and sacrifice and connection with a realized Guru, after which one is deemed worthy of being admitted to the circle for Realization.
Realization means absolute destroying of the sanskaras, the absolute stopped state of mind [thinking] which is very, very difficult. If the mind tries to stop thinking, it goes to the sound sleep state, i.e., unconsciousness. Even the great yogis are unable to attain that state. They can at the most stop the formation of new sanskaras during meditation or samadhi. But no sooner they come down from the samadhi state, the very moment their mind begins to work again, it begins to form sansakaras, adding to the huge store of past sanskaras left undestroyed
Hafiz has compared the body with a pot, the soul with smoke, and the sanskaras with a huge stone lying on top of the pot. For all its attempts, how can the smoke ever succeed in removing and throwing off the stone? For this, a sage must come and lift it away.
Similarly, a bird in a cage may keep trying to open the cage, which is closed from the outside, but it will never succeed until help is received from outside. In short, as Hafiz says, "Those who desire to gain something — even a little benefit — in this spiritual line, must have a chest as strong as iron so as to withstand severe blows."
At 10:00 A.M. on Sunday, 3 April 1927, in celebration of Gudi Padwa , the Hindu New Year, Baba went to Kaka Chinchorkar's house in Ahmednagar accompanied by the mandali.