In plain words
Yet this horse, found nowhere, was now right behind the very tree He was sitting under! As he stood amazed at this, the fakir struck the ground with a stick, and water and fire came forth! To some extent he saw such superhuman powers in the fakir. Then Patel: ‘Swami! You have done me so great a kindness. You must come with me and accept my hospitality,’ he prayed. ‘Ah! Go,’ said the fakir. The two of them set off together. Meanwhile a marriage had been arranged for Chāndbhāī Patel's nephew. Where was this marriage? The bride was a girl of Shirdi. So all of them had to go to Shirdi. Then Chāndbhāī Patel invited Him too. ‘Fakir! You too come with us.’ No one there knew His name! They went to Shirdi in carts. As they got down at Shirdi, Mahalsāpati went up to the fakir and welcomed Him: ‘Come, Bābā! Sai!’ From then on that very name stuck to the fakir. Sai is the name Mahalsāpati called Him by. ‘Come, Sai!’ he called Him. Until then no one had given Bābā a name.
On another occasion a magistrate came to Bābā to inquire into a case. Bābā had to give evidence in it. What had really happened was this: some thieves had committed a theft in a rich man's house, stolen gold articles and were carrying them off. Then the police caught them. When the police asked them sternly, ‘Where did you come by these?’ they took fright: ‘There, there is a fakir over there. He gave them to us,’ they said. ‘Who is that fakir?’ The police came searching and asked Bābā, ‘Did you give them these?’ ‘Yes, I gave them,’ said Bābā! When the police asked, ‘Where did these come to you from?’ Bābā answered, ‘From where everything has come, these too have come from there.’ In this way Bābā went on speaking in a somewhat bewildering way. The police could not understand His words. They were in the worldly state. Bābā's was the spiritual state. For those in the worldly frame of mind, to understand it is not possible at all.