Baba called all the boys and berated Adi in front of
them.
He made Adi stand before him and he said, "He is my brother, but he
is a thief! He ate an onion without my permission."
Baba signaled to Dattu,
Adi's closest friend and roommate, to step forward and spit in Adi's
face. Dattu was so taken aback that he did not know what to do. Baba snapped at
him to do it.
Dattu stepped forward nervously and did as instructed. Adi was absolutely humiliated. ("You can imagine how I felt," he
recalled years later. "I wished the earth would open and swallow me
up.")
But Baba consoled him, "Now you have become my brother. Those
who obey me are related to me and not otherwise."
Wednesday, 14 September 1927 was a Zoroastrian holiday
( Khordad Sal ; Zoroaster's birthday),
and Baba was given the usual ceremonial bath. The following day Baba and a group
of the mandali went to Dhake's house in Ahmednagar, and also to Bhingar to
see some property Rustom had purchased in the Camp area. At Dhake's, Baba
explained about the circle and its preparation:
The members of the circle of a Sadguru are God-realized
at once, without having to [consciously] pass through the planes and incur the
risks of faltering midway, for the Sadguru takes them through these inner planes
in the dark. Those persons in the circle, who have duties and are to come down,
should first of all be wiped clean of all their sanskaras; otherwise there is
the risk of their becoming unconscious of the world and entering the majzoob
state after Realization.
One of the mandali asked Baba why he was delaying the
preparation of the circle and not giving them Realization immediately. He
explained:
The time will come. But that time depends on the
person's sanskaras being entirely burned up, and that is a gradual process. Although a Sadguru is a furnace and can burn up all the sanskaras in a breath,
he does not do so for obvious reasons, and they are very sound reasons, too.
Someone then asked Baba why he was not allowing anyone to
read his book in which he said he revealed hitherto unknown spiritual truths. Baba explained:
One must be prepared to read what I have written.