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I recall Baba saying that here the English had done a great deal of good, but also great harm, due to the lack of understanding of the people she governed. "Nothing could stop the development of India. She would free herself."

 

Baba rarely allowed us to go anywhere without him on this first trip; but I do remember one occasion when Baba sent us in groups of two or three for a walk without him. We started off along the main Murree Rd. At a certain point I felt a curious restlessness and a strong desire to return home. Delia agreed to return with me. From a distance we saw Baba entering our hotel. We sent word to him we had returned. A few minutes later we were called and Baba spelt out on his board: "You were the only ones who felt that I wanted to speak to you. I had important spiritual things to tell, but the mood has now gone because none of you were here."

 

Thus, we learned the need to be conscious of him always. "Never miss to be with me," he said once. "You always miss something."

 

Looking back on the incident, I don't think Baba ever intended us to take a long walk and be away a long time. It was a test! For we were to learn Baba never wanted us to be far away. Even if he sent us from the room he expected us to remain close at hand to be sent for at any moment.

 

One cold snowy evening as we sat around the huge fire, one of us asked, "How do you know Who you are, and that you are the Source of All?" Baba replied, "I knew it before everything. I came from my own Self. Existence one cannot know, till one exists in that Existence."

 

Much has been written in “The Perfect Master," of our delightful five days on the houseboats at Srinagar, Kashmir. Again one or two were tested (Elizabeth for one); for Baba, knowing how they loved to buy little knickknacks and souvenirs, ordered that no one was to buy anything from the numerous vendors surrounding our boats.

 

The culminating point of our journey north was Harvan, near Srinagar. The Prince of Hyderabad had an enormous palace, stables, and gardens here. An indescribable peace hung about Harvan. One felt like speaking only in whispers. Why had Baba made a point of taking us to this spot? It was here on the slope of the mountain that Baba had been in seclusion and on fast for four months, the very same mountain where Baba told us two

 

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