Passage 3

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In plain words

Bābā asked, ‘Ah! Very good! How long will you stay here?’ ‘I have come keeping even the fare for the return journey. If you give me Brahmajñāna, I mean to leave at once,’ said the Patel. Then Bābā said, ‘You madman! One who craves money should go straight after money. ‘Jāo! Saitān!’ Why should one like you come to Me? What you seek is Brahmajñāna; your whole mind is a thirst for money! Go!’ He said. It was through teachings of this kind that a change came about in the devotees' minds. To those who worshipped in every act with pure feeling, with purity of mind, with selfless feeling, Bābā was ever at their side.

Though Bābā left the body, He showed that He is everywhere

There was a lady called Mātājī Kṛṣṇapriya. Her name was Kṛṣṇapriya. She used to live in Nagpur. But now and then she would come to Shirdi and have Bābā's darśan. She was a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. One day she went to Simla. Wherever she was, she always prayed to Bābā with all her heart. And she held the feeling that Kṛṣṇa and Bābā were both one. She held the faith that the two were not separate. Suppose there is a mother! You call her ‘Mother’. Her daughter-in-law calls her ‘Mother-in-law’. Her grandson calls her ‘Granny!’ Her husband says ‘Wife!’ All of these call her by many names; yet she is one and the same person. In just the same way, the divine power is one! Devotees call it ‘Devī’. Jñānis call it ‘Ātma’. Yogīs all call it ‘Śakti’. So each calls it by a name of his own. In the same way, for that Kṛṣṇapriya, Bābā and Kṛṣṇa were not separate. That was her faith. After she had gone to Simla, she learned that Bābā had left His body on 15 October 1918, at half past two in the afternoon. That day was Vijayadaśamī. By the time Bābā left the body, Ekādaśī too had begun. Long before, in 1916 itself, Bābā had told Kākā Dīkṣit, ‘Kākājī, Dādā is going to die on 28 September 1918!’ That is, there was a certain Dādā Sāheb, and this Kākā Dīkṣit thought he might die.