made his plans. One night he called a beautiful prostitute and asked her to go over to the Master with wine and pork. She was instructed that she must entice the Master to eat the pork and drink the wine. She went over to the Master as instructed. The Master was very happy to see her and enjoyed thoroughly her company and also the food and wine she had brought for him. The next morning the prostitute returned to the Mohammedan, very happy with the news that she had made the Master eat the pork and drink the wine. The Mohammedan was also very happy for he now had proof with which to denounce the Master and his spirituality as he had gone against the tenets of the Muslim religion by eating pork and drinking wine.

The Mohammedan, with a band of his followers, decided to go to the Master who lived on the other side of the river and denounce him. Astride a horse, he soon began crossing the river, while his followers waded after him. When the horse was midstream, it stopped and began to urinate in the river. The Master, on seeing this, shouted out and reprehended the Mohammedan for polluting the river by the urine of his horse. The Mohammedan scoffed at this and thought the Master was completely insane for he could not imagine how a little urine could pollute the whole river. He shouted back at the Master, 'How can a little urine pollute a river?' The Master replied, 'How then can a little wine and pork pollute the ocean that I am?' The Mohammedan understood the depth of these words and went to the Master and surrendered himself to him." Baba finished, "Powers have no importance, only Love counts on the Path. It requires daring to annihilate oneself. Miracles are childish things."

Just then an old lady came to embrace Baba. She was very ill. Baba asked her to think of him more and more and not to forget him while breathing her last.

Baba continued the same topic of attaining powers through Tantric knowledge. He said, "My own father, Sheriarji, was a real dervish. He wandered from place to place in Iran for many years in search of God. He came to India and continued his search. His feet were blistered and his soles had become hard like rubber tires from the wanderings on foot. One day, in the desert of Kutch, he was dying from thirst. Suddenly a man appeared before him with some drinking water and offered it to him. After drinking the water he continued his search. He even took to the 40 days penance as mentioned above. He succeeded in sitting there for only 30 days. He felt very dejected at his failure. It was at this time that he heard a voice telling him not to worry, for God would be born to him. Remembering