When you play cards you feel pleased or disappointed depending on winning or losing the game. You become so excited and absorbed in playing that you forget everything else. But once you stop and again get busy in the ordinary affairs of life, you forget about the game of cards and all its pleasures, disappointments, concerns, and anxieties.
It is also similar in the case of the Realized Ones. To them the very life and existence of the world is a mere game of cards. Worldly success and failure, happiness and misery are no more lasting or significant than the emotions you experience during a game of cards.
The Patil joined them and Borker praised his good nature and spiritual bent of mind.
Baba said, "I know it all. He is a good devotee and that is why I accepted his invitation and came all this way to his place. Such simple devotees are more dear to me than the so-called rich and influential people, who are no more than 'tin gods.' "
After visiting Wanjari and his family, Baba returned to Meherabad at 5:30 P.M.
There was a general discussion about Arangaon Village affairs that night. Some of the villagers were bitterly criticizing and harassing Maruti Patil for staying at Meherabad and eating food "cooked by a Parsi," rather than by someone from his own caste.
Baba consoled him and promised, "Rest assured, one day I will bring all these mahars [Harijans] to dine with you on the same food cooked by those prohibited by your caste."
Memo and Mani returned to Poona on the 29th evening.
Baba went to Arangaon with the mandali on the morning of Wednesday, 1 June 1927 to attend the wedding of Walu Pawar's daughter. Baba was escorted to the village in a procession and was well attended to. Soon after the food was served, he returned to Meherabad.
Before leaving Arangaon, he commented, "I was compelled to attend this marriage today because of Walu's love and devotion for me."
Walu was the only woman from Arangaon to be included in Baba's close circle of women mandali.
Ramjoo arrived after an absence of ten days. Later that same day, the Satha family came for Baba's darshan. Accompanying them was Gaimai's husband Byramshaw Dorab Jessawala, 42, who everyone called Pappa . While explaining to him about saints and in particular Hazrat Babajan, the Master related: