This teaching, hidden in silence, has no language, nor can it be written or learned. It is to be felt and is given only by a God-conscious Master.
As the monsoon rains had still not fallen in Ahmednagar, on Friday, 9 September 1927, a group of people came to Baba at Meherabad, praying for rain. Adi Sr. asked Baba, "There are floods elsewhere in India. Why is there no rain in Ahmednagar?" Baba only smiled and would not reply.
Sitting beside the dhuni the next day, Adi repeated his question and requested that Baba produce rain. Baba immediately took off his woolen kamli coat (which he had not done for a very long time, having worn it even at the height of summer in May).
Baba remarked, "All the heat has been taken out; there will be cold now," meaning it would rain.
As soon as Baba did this, clouds began gathering in the sky, and a heavy rain fell which continued throughout the night.
Baba put the coat on again the next morning and, though still cloudy, it did not rain that day.
Baba remarked to the mandali, "You won't be able to understand the significance of the taking off and putting on of this coat."
During the daytime, Baba would either remain in the Jhopdi, sit on his gaadi near the Table Cabin, or walk up Meherabad Hill. Most of his time was spent with the boys, although simultaneously he was supervising the minutest details of the everyday life of the several hundred people living at Meherabad.
The food served in the Hazrat Babajan High School was very plain and monotonous. One day Adi Jr. complained to his cousin Pendu, who was the manager of the kitchen, "We have the same rice and dal every day. Can't you get me some pickle or chutney?" Pendu told him that he had no pickle, but he could give him an onion. It was not much, but Adi accepted it and relished it with his lunch that day.
Somehow Baba found out and was furious with Pendu and Adi.
Pendu tried to excuse Adi, saying it was not his fault, but Baba kept repeating, "Why did he eat it?"
Baba then called Adi Jr. and scolded him, "Aren't you ashamed to eat an onion when the other boys don't get any? You are taking undue advantage here because you are my brother. Being my brother doesn't make you an exception. You
have to eat what the other boys eat. Who are you to have an extra onion? This is
not befitting."