In plain words
They think, ‘Wife is life.’ But they do not know that wife turns into knife. When she said it, he said, ‘All right.’ He spoke up: ‘I'll come the next day. I'll just take a look and come away. I won't stay there,’ he said. Then Śivadās: ‘Come with complete faith! All your troubles will surely end,’ he said. They set off and got down at Manmad station. From there they had to go ten miles. They had to go by tonga. The two of them sat in it. All the way until they reached Shirdi, Śivadās kept telling him about Bābā. “When I close my eyes, my son comes before me. I can see no one. Śivadās! Don't disturb me for nothing,” said the friend. Then Śivadās said: ‘Why do you keep the son who is gone in your thoughts? Was that son there before he was born? Before birth he was not. After death he is not. He came in the middle, and went in the middle. All this is like passing clouds. But God was there before you were born. He will be there even after you die. All your life He is with you as your companion. So God is Omnipresent. He is in all three times, Past, present, future. All these things are seen only in the present; they are not in the past, nor in the future. You are grieving over things that stay only as dew stays. They are mere mirages. However far you go after the mirages you see, will they quench your thirst?’ In this way he went on teaching him very well. Slowly, little by little, these teachings went on entering the friend within.
The two of them reached Shirdi. The friend got down from the tonga and sat under a tree. Śivadās went in alone. He bowed to Bābā. ‘Swami! I have brought a friend,’ he said. Bābā, angrily: “Shame! Shame! Go, go, Satan!” He said. He thought this anger was natural. Then he brought the friend in. Bābā saw the friend. He rose and took up His stick. He shouted loudly, ‘Drive him out!’ Fear seized the friend. He was very angry with his friend Śivadās: ‘Didn't I tell you, I won't come, I won't come?