Passage 4

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Again He said, ‘Kākājī! Come! Do not tell Dādā.’ As things went on like this, Kākā went on grieving, thinking Dādā would be gone within two more months. On 28 September 1918 Bābā had a high fever. Now, two days before that, He had gone to three houses and brought back alms. He ate it. At twelve o'clock He said, ‘I do not like this chāvaḍī. Take Me to the Būṭī wāḍā. There it will be peaceful for Me,’ He said. A man named Būṭī had built what was called the Muralīdhara temple. He had made great plans to install Kṛṣṇa there. Each time, saying ‘The installation is tomorrow,’ ‘The installation is tomorrow,’ Bābā kept holding it back. Without Bābā's command, Būṭī could do nothing on his own. To the very end they did not take Bābā to the Būṭī wāḍā. One afternoon Bābā sent Būṭī and Kākājī away, saying, ‘Go and have your meal and come back.’ Saying ‘Very well,’ they went home. Under the pillow where Bābā lay there were nine coins. He took them out. He placed them in Lakṣmībāī's hand. At that time Śyāma was right there. He called, ‘Śyāma! Come here!’ Śyāma went and sat at His side. He leaned upon Śyāma. He gave up His breath! There, Kṛṣṇapriya came to know of this. She grieved deeply. On the second day she stayed with her doors shut, in her room. In Simla the snow falls heavily, even in the daytime. While things were so, a sannyāsī whose arms reached to His knees, His head wrapped in a cloth, came to the house next door. He knocked on the door. The woman next door opened the door and said, ‘Who are you, sir?’ ‘Where is Mātājī Kṛṣṇapriya?’ He said. It was not that He did not know; He knew. He who knew she was in Simla, would He not know where in Simla her house was? That is, Bābā did this so that it might be known that ‘He gave darśan in the body to outsiders too’. ‘There! That house, sir,’ she said, pointing it out. Because the sannyāsī was old, and because snow was falling from above, He asked her to hold an umbrella and show Him Kṛṣṇapriya's house. He came to Kṛṣṇapriya's house. Bābā knocked at the door.