In plain words
I have been disgraced in front of all these people. This is a stain on my life that will never fade,’ he said. He went outside and sat under a banyan tree. ‘What am I to do, Bābā! I can't stay in there, and I can't stay in the Chāvaḍi either,’ he thought, and came outside. Meanwhile Bābā: ‘Hey, Sardār! Go, go!’ He said. With that He sent one of those near Him. That man's name was Śyām. He did the cooking too. He was always near Swami. ‘First of all, chase that fellow right out to the village boundary,’ He said. ‘So be it,’ thought the friend, and he climbed into the tonga and sat down.
Śivadās was deeply hurt. But he said to himself, ‘This cannot happen without some reason.’ Śivadās too went and sat in the tonga. The two of them reached Manmad, and from there their own town, Bombay. Once they got there, he could not bear a word about Śivadās. After getting down from the tonga, he spoke to Śivadās: ‘Śivadās, don't ever come to our house.’ To that Śivadās: ‘You have no right to tell me not to come. My duty is my own. When I mean to set my friend right, I will not give up my resolve. I am not teaching you any bad words. I am not urging you onto an evil path. I am asking you to reach God. That is my complete faith. You may listen, or you may not. Some day or other, this word will stay in you as a seed. So this is my duty,’ he said, and he went again that evening. ‘Don't be the least bit hurt by this. Bābā speaks this way to wipe out some sin that is in you. Bābā does not enter at all into an action that has no reason. Whether He scolds you or beats you, whatever He does, go and hold Bābā's feet! Only don't let go of those feet. Give up even this worldly life, give up even life itself. But do not let go of those feet,’ Śivadās told him very firmly.
One without devotion to God is no better than a rākṣasa
Three days later a sannyāsī came to the friend's wife in a dream. She had never seen Bābā.