He returned at seven and then after the 7:30 P.M. bell had rung for all to leave, Baba noticed Buasaheb and Borker sitting idly and talking.
Baba took Buasaheb to task, criticizing him, "You complain about Raosaheb and others breaking orders when you yourself break them!"
Baba later remarked, "Borker is not a spiritual man. He is only practicing yoga asanas [postures] and thinks himself to be spiritual. Let Angal Pleader be appointed in his place [to give lectures to the boys]."
This was done from the 1st of December.
Angal used to travel to Meherabad by tonga each morning. Near his house lived a young man of 20 named G. P. Edke.1 Edke would observe Angal leaving each morning and he once asked the tonga driver where Angal was going. The man told him, "To Meherabad, where an Irani saint lives."
Edke had recently received a postcard informing him that a job was waiting for him at another town. He thought that before beginning his new job, it would be propitious to take the darshan of a saint. One morning he asked the tonga driver if he could be taken to Arangaon with Angal. The driver agreed, and Edke sat up front with him while Angal rode behind.
When they arrived, Baba was sitting by the Jhopdi. Beckoning Edke over, Baba asked him who he was and what he was doing. Edke replied by taking the postcard out of his pocket and handing it to Baba who asked Vishnu to read it aloud.
After he did, Baba instructed Vishnu, "Soak it in kerosene and burn it!"
Baba then informed Edke, "We have a high school here and need a teacher. If you wish, you can start tomorrow."
Edke readily accepted.
From then on, every morning Edke would walk from his home to Meherabad. The first day he met Baba coming down the hill around seven o'clock, with Kaka Shahane holding an umbrella over Baba's head.
When Baba saw him, he instructed, "Never lay a hand on any of the students. Don't scold them, either. Just teach them from the bottom of your heart and don't worry if they do not listen to you."
Edke began teaching English and Marathi in the school, but he soon found that the boys would only write Baba's name over and over again in their notebooks and on their chalk slates.
Footnotes
- 1.Edke is pronounced ED-kay.