Eruch Jessawalla - The Ingenuity of Man
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I'm coming from on the Plaza from Gaza to my family saying that I want you all to be back in a month later on. So today because this day is fixed for your inquiry engagement of errors and meru. Meru is my sister.
She's dead no more now. So what my mother policies that they are called there for your engagement engage engagement.
Okay, those are the years when kids were under the control of the curve. No wonder the when writing against them seen the 60s and what do we find? All Arrangements have been made for Big Show that is that my sister. I had to be engaged to the daughter of
Family who was my cousin to and her brother was to be engaged to my sister.
So they're here he made preparations for all that and we got engaged that day. He put the Rings in our fingers and all that the best part of the whole engagement. I still remember the great fish to be had Glutton that I am so that was good. It was gonna be that we got engaged and as a reward, we got two good piece have you met the parents of that that side you see they wanted
They should call me relationship closer links with this just all the family.
So does this
But the only thing that was there that myself to return to college with a ring around my finger was too embarrassing and what with my friends say what will happen. I didn't care as long as I had the priest you see I remember the police so I went back and because surely enough people started questioning me. What what happening. What's this dream? Are you married? No as I'm engaged.
What happened to not fund some yarn and all that and I pacified them that yes, I'm engaged. So what?
That engagement is I remained engaged for 7 or more years because in two years time, you heard that Baba called the we came. I was engaged my brother was young. We are taking him out of the school. My sister was engaged to me remaining games.
Yes passing but then when we came to Bob of the first thing that he told us as I told you all what had happened and all that then we settle down and Baba at that time. We retreat was under construction at the time of the westerners and miramanee and Court shed lived in that other adjoining room to the museum, which is now a museum room was also occupied by the Eastern ladies and so forth and so on.
And men with all down the hill you follow all women up there and my duty was to escort him down the hill and when he's down the hill he has to I had to be the temple him do whatever he tells me to do and again as caught him up there and that's the end of the day then in 1939 be asked me to be with him for the tour driving the bus and all that. So I went out on the floor then in 1939 40 41 42 43 44
What all the tools that we see the books in the I was all the time with him now the when I am with him now the beauty is now a me to read is bored of this and that and all I'm sick of all the activities not in the midst but I'm ver all the time you see day and night all the time. It is nighttime. Nobody's there. Keep Watch Daytime try the car drive the bus the in between daytime and nighttime.
- even I am there I just shaved see somewhere somehow other and wash myself somewhere in some tap or something because maybe I'm the only man you see and there was another person with macaca was an older person poor fellow. Both of us. You see the same man who told me about engineering is he saying is we got harness together? So some other and in daytime article in the bus daytime is be good before starting for the journey filled the Cassie the oil Caesars that and everything hold.
Thank you for hours and get the body is engaged. No, no time to think.
Why I'm doing it, there's no time even to think why I'm doing this. What's the matter with you? So it's all there you didn't refer to that is his Blessing his grace. So then it went on and on 1949 Kay.
But what was I yeah, then it went on 43-44 between that time we are here what it is. We are here because 4243 the smells are going to stablish to about seeing people here then 43. I hear some 43 of 44. I forget now, which is my wedding here. Also, how many years were there are 36 how many years have you say what to do so
43 now eight years young age. So one day a bizarre man comes from another wish to bring our marketing and all that. So I take accounts and the sort of thing also, he says, you know today I had been to a bar press this and there was a lot of rewards and all that.
I just heard that what's that all about something happened from right? There is no longer something something in the family. Something was happening. I received a note from somebody my relative that my in-laws were so perturbed about this prolonged engagement, which they had never heard or seen ow, and when they find that well the family on whom they depended to marry their children what has happened is that
Join Bob and they are monitoring their reading of on life of my sister. But also come Bond told Mother sisters and all that my brother used to also come whenever we are not told you to put in some school for fellow and he will have to join there for 3-4 months again. He's taken away and join again and so forth very disrupted education, but he studied he was very intelligent. He is very intelligent. Very quiet opposite my nature.
I am impatient. He is the sun if occasionally patient.
Go what are you reading? The note is that well today. It was a very bad day. The in-laws see our great reporters. And unfortunately, they are so distressed that they are thrown Baba's picture in the world that you do.
Just because it's all so vague because you all don't you have not decided to get married and all that stuff.
It was like a thunderbolt. I had nothing to do with me Baba as such there is no love lost in that and but this sort of thing. I don't understand what is what has happened to me. And what's in my mind even today. Why should I feel kabaeva like that? Why did they throw the picture of Baba? I have nothing to say about the other picture and pictures are there photos of the I'm really brought by that person. You see I have nothing. I'm no receipt.
Got to respect for printed things or anything of that sort like that. I have a good kind heart I did have and I still have but what made me think I'd hurt you. So badly that in a half. I went to bother.
And I said do you wish us to get married or you don't want us to get married?
The do you wish to get married? He's asking me this question. I said it is eight years. You got a cengage and do you wish us to get married. Do you wish to get married? I said, yes. I want to get married.
Get the calendar this particular day is nice because all people from mehrabad will be free. They will be coming to the area. It's a good thing good day fix this day says send a word and then I told Barbara that such a thing as happens is good. You good. You are getting married. Very good. We'll arrange we have will do the tell them that you are getting married on this day make arrangements. Yeah. I had to also see to all the sort of thing. You know, I had to go to Pune to get
My wedding, what do you call it?
Dress so whatever it was all the all the author's Russian Orthodoxy just try to surface itself. You see because of appeasing the in-laws and all that. So I went there and on my own I did all this a as if I had had the East to get married. All right get married then arrange for it. I arranged all this. Yeah.
No, that was a sick dog. Love yet not be caught will die. But the rest of the self and so forth. So, you know, the one W is that and Fanta Fanta? You know what Theta is.
I'll show you what to do. So I've got that not not mine own but it's a baba. So what happened is that I well the day has come Baba women only becomes the two days prior to the wedding and stays there are bad press and they are all very happy to hear that the same day. They are very penitent about it the day that they received the note and they beg forgiveness of Bob and Barbara forgive them and
Fine
The days
All the preparations are there I get married, you know, what is after all getting magic? Well, the priest and the others must you must have the blessings of the priest and must have the Goodwill of the guests were being called as witnesses that we are getting married so that we may lead a straight life. You know, that's why the Witnesses are called you call are either 500 or a thousand liquid system feed them to be Witnesses. That's how it's all that thing started. You know, it's visited.
Beginning formerly there were only five but then as people could afford five started expanding into 50 and 50 into 500 5000 feed them as what to be witnesses that I and my wife will lead live together like
That's how it is.
Baba, baba was there there were two weddings at the time taking place on the stage myself and my wife bright and my sister and her bridegroom. What about you will call me. So they were all seated there and for priests are showering Their Blessings and mumbo-jumbo. It went on for one and a half hours and Bob and was standing there all the time here. We are sitting seated there and he's looking at us.
But of course that I was attending to Barbara that was my job.
That is the wedding day down. So now again I have to resume my attention as soon as I get out of the desire to go and run to Bob has entered into his Cottage the I go there so bad. I said well
Is the food good can you get the food supper it is you need time usually have any it's so I'm hungry. I said, yes food must be ready. You get me my tray I went and got his leg if I finished it.
I'm done. I sold him and he ate and after he ate.
He of course gave me one morsel of Prasad. That's usual. He used to do that. He knew that my saliva was drooling when there is food some it is a fact so you always feed me first. So then
After food is over. He said he I washed his hands and all that. This is by the way now it's time it's time is coming out for me to retire who will be the night Watchman today. What is with me in the night? I said I am. I'm the usual but you forget you're married. You have to go on a honeymoon or something like that, isn't it?
Yes, I'm married.
But I can if I continue to keep watch here for a couple of nights where as long as you are here afterwards, of course, I don't do that. There is no struggle Master should be there.
So all the three but Gil caution like it was my wife call her.
So she came are you happy now? Yes very happy Bobby embraced her and all that says you Embrace her father tells me and she embraced me. I embraced her and we kissed each other and all that and this is conscious who will keep night. Watch tonight. Here is used to keep on tonight fool. He is why it is can continue. Here it is, but y'all are married today.
What home is this you can continue?
You don't mind. I don't mind games. She earned another Embrace from that.
I am very happy and pleased with your answer take this food is Baba gave her something to eat and all that and she is about to leave so Baba caps and calls her back.
It's so good. I'm so pleased with your answer.
How about you and it is living as brother and sister?
From now on
As you please she said I'll do whatever you want me to I want you all to live as brother and sister.
That's how we got married. So that's how it is. So you are.
Well, she she lives with her parents and she would come and live with our parents. My parents would say no. Well, where is the opportunity? I am with Baba all the time including like a madman Range Rover roaming about is wandering the relative think that they don't know. I don't I don't know whether they knew anything about it. No, I don't I doubt very much. Nobody knows anything about cheese. She died. She has recently cut.
More importantly, he knows the family life. Now the permitted them if he became the manager of Sorrows motorboat, he was intelligent person. He held responsible posts and all that baba got him out of that and made him the manager of service Motor Works.
Under Federal and this was a big concern not the thing that you see now is all grouping there and almost dead that but the whole compound will be filled with trucks and sorrow shown all the theater given in the block itself and in the district and lot of activity will be he needed some help so intelligent and faithful person honest man. So Bob I got him out and put him there and my sister and my brother-in-law lived at the same.
The court has ever the trust office is now the money's offices was the sitting room and Baba paid visits all of very often to my sisters and my sister and some other at gone. Very come very close to Baba whenever food was necessary for my mother. It was my sister who can send the clothes for new life that were to be staged for the women. She was the one who would do that the tailor that who comes here now was thought to be a tailor by my sister so that he can sell the women here. And so what my sister was very active.
Very energetic very life.
Yes, what was your wife?
Who am I? Why should I be? There are people around here. The hall is full. I'm here interpreting. His gestures. Baba is here some excuses. They have our sentencing out. I forget now what it is all about some companies that I want to have sick of glass. I have a sip of water. I have water there. Somebody catches hold of you for a snapshot.
I said no don't know I wasn't happy because I was very Twitter. Don't do that. No, no. No, I had no guy. Do you want to waste your baba hurt?
Heard my voice. Yeah by called me. What is it? What why are you speaking in this way when it's about is somebody who's pestering me take snacks take my snap there and doing the want my photo and all that. This is so what?
Who are you? Who do you take yourself to be?
Daughter will not to do so to say that we shouldn't do who are you? Why are you so presumptions about your being what you are?
Allow him to take it.
From that day onward whether you want me to take it naked or whether as I will take it as I say, I have no say in who are you not to share?
They were reasons behind it. Look at your reasons. You forget yourself the reasons.
One of the reasons this time in search of families who were one well of but due to some circumstances. Well, they lost their belt and they are neither poor nor beggars.
But they try to meet both ends some are other try to find out and then I will go with you all and will help them.
All right, what we'll do is we'll all go together.
Instead of your coming and a game going we go. Why waste money?
That's what happened. So we used to go out and what we noticed was.
That when we did find these people with great difficulty is to travel Thousand Miles 800 miles need one family like that.
I was impossible for us to bring to them that they should accept something from us news from Baba.
They will do want to stretch their hands out to accept anything.
But with great difficulty would coax them to accept.
And there are many good stories about that. You want to hear the stories? These are the families that once Baba had the pleasure to contact them and we must have contacted about the score of them. But the ones that touch me most are these that I remember
The standout
Where Do We Begin now we begin with a day when we are at mehrabad
Even family problems what Financial Financial? Yeah, there are very well of there are people who had their own what you call the solution Comic character when you get when you come home car so you can know what you know, what what is who must he be there who can own a saloon you like it?
Ivy came across such a band who had lost everything I had nothing and what he depended upon he and his wife depends upon having a small case made out of Soap Box, you know faithful and there the shells were there and they were selling babies and cigarettes and matches.
They still live on that.
There are others who had elephants at that doors and Gates you seated on their palaces and they were reduced circumstances Time and Tide wait for no man, just like that you die or you your lowered from the position to a position which you had never even dreamt of in your life these people to contact them and induce them to accept helpful. If we just ask it is easier for us to get the masts to the Lord.
Going to get these people to accept those things. You never thought of that and Ava showed us. How are you?
So we are in Moraga. Mehrabad one day and that small cabin. That is the rori cabin that is enough. You have seen that with the star and across and all that at lower. Mehrabad. There's a cabin called the how recapping all the material all the material from Rory mad ashram.
Bob has cabin got shifted from there and brought here and created this room. That is
We call it. We call it the Rowdy cabin.
So that was the interview room just as in Portuguese, you have that Lagoon cabin, which is his interview room where you see people with them interview them. So so this became that Cabot that room for baba baba is seated the domain picture the bada God is their small matrices and Bubba sits there and people come in this court and sit in their bubble sees them interviews them help them out with the problem monthly come there. They are called.
Instructions are given all the stuff that was awful.
So as years passed by I meeting was bored. I am there all the time by his side. This happened in my presence.
Any Ronnie come from somewhere Bombay? Most probably I will not forget. You must have been bombed it he come. Well, he comes with devotion and much love. We see his love. We poured out to Baba he bows down with great reverence and feeling and all that because you get beaks and all that Baba blesses him and then he takes out a packet the board of something Target.
And he offers to bother so now this is what is it about never touch money. You know that first of all that anybody offers himself is what is it?
It's nothing but a simple offering keep it down. So push it down there. What is it Bob as a simple operating from please use it in anything any way you want it? So now do one thing I have received love that you have offered it. I received he take it you use it yourself, but Baba brought it for you. I have enough space for your work. No you take it it goes on tussle goes on.
After a few minutes that man doesn't want to obey Baba because he has these things that he has brought with love as an offering to Bob in kick it back. They said if you go from baba baba is explaining to him that I have received it with love that with the love that you have got I have accepted now, I want you to use it. No, Baba you but you baba I was there but I was just take this packet take this and keep it with you and
You will know to whom it should be given one and they still don't keep it with you at the time. I never used to handle money or anything and my work was such that I didn't wear my much clothing or enter results just like this no pockets and Jesus also get to keep it put it here. Now. It's a great burden on me to carry this money. I don't know how much money is there what it is and all our to keep it there and I will come to know to whom I should give it.
Bob versus ticket
I'm going there to take it this is stand up. So I stand so father said to me he said stand up keep telling Bob about down seven times on my feet and he says take this packet now and give it to the one who needs it, you know to whom it should be given.
And while offering you say that it's a gift from God accept it and of Life him. So I take it and keep it now. It's a problem. It's a burden with me day and night. I had to keep this packet very moment. I might find I might feel like giving somebody is so sad for me this year on man came in did that I used to carry it. I had to sleep with her. I used to know about this eternal that
October people money it so happened that again brother sent me to Pune because summertime I went to Pune.
When I when did what had happened was summertime and I'm thirsty very thirsty.
And I the naturally I would like to have some gold ring. I is my favorite thing to have something cold the other day. We spoke of made the Lord walk 18 miles. You see you have a glass of sunburn. So like why so I went I went in search of a shop. There are many shops in summertime, you know sugarcane juice dictate the juice out put some drops of lemon in it and put ice in it and offer you the cup for simple 10 points out something like that.
Formerly it was five points. I should say No Bananas now. Well Elizabeth those days are gone. The Golden Days is now your iron days of come. So rock day, so I went there and I was enjoying see
Just then the love talking going on at the counter. There was a man standing there and talking about it and I could hear the word angular Marathi Hindi fluent T. He is check is the morning the pain of the world today at that time mind. You must be about 40 years 30 40 years. Now. This must have happened somewhere in the early forties.
This 40 years. At least I should say that time you are promoting. The fate of the world is look righteousness. Never pays.
See that Injustice that has taken place the man who was so straight and so on is honesty never case. I tell you and he says no it's not that loud talking Indians and habit of talking loudly the man that he was one of the ones who had taken the ring and he's being there and happened to no one each other. So they are talking about a certain third party and he is describing what had happened and this and that he's trying to give an example to it that Honesty does not.
So he's proving by giving an example of a family my years. You see all of a sudden pick up because I want it. I had that burden with me. I'm listening and listen. Listen. Listen at last stop his talk and then you did good by me until I finish my glass and immediately approached. The man I said, will you do me a favor after paying you? Of course I said,
You do me a favor of whom are you all talking? Who is that / family that has suffered so much is it is the family still there? Where is in Pune?
What concern have you had this family? What what what concerned are you about the dog that you overheard just now?
As if there's no concerned, the only thing is I'm concerned about their welfare if I can be of any help my elder brother is in search of such family and if we can be of any help, yes should render some him like that if they deserve it, is that because what I overheard was that they deserve oh,
But you'll have to go 40 miles away from here.
The letting you run from here, I can't say I'm another can't disclose his name and identity is never to be disclosed.
So I said I'm from the area.
This is Euler to go 40 miles from here. So I will go when we address which is jotting down your dress and give to you.
He is a man who was holding a responsible position in a municipality.
And because he was a responsible man. He had to execute this work. Honestly, that's how he thought and those who are under him and those who wear above him. They were corrupt.
And he was the car in the bed of roses that were was there is other he proved to be that because he would accept graft. He will want to do anything even do anything. Unjust - sorry, you're such a state person. So they demoted him somehow by hook or crook this complainer something that I'd be most demoting demoting demoting demoting reduced to the post of back somewhere.
You know we have here you all do not have that system called the octroi we have the taxes as you enter the city limits or something like that. You have anything you have your agricultural Goods onion bags feedbags anything out of Machinery or a refrigerator that you're bringing in or out and all that you have to pay Municipal tax. So he has been made as a peon simple Club simple clerk the collect tax. That's all.
But if you are honest and correct because we need collection all the time. Nobody would accept graft and let them go is suppose the tax has to be paid is 10 Rupees the man at the post usually does that even now they do it. They accept rupees and letting go put the tube in the pocket Lucy party suffered by 10 rupee you follow it's an honest man. He is. Well you want to be honest or it's go there and be there at the post.
Oh, so that's the thing. That's that's what he told me. That such is the thing and he has been reduced that party and he has grown up daughter there and nobody's there to look at the hidden. You cannot meet both hands.
I couldn't find thank you. I thank you very much profusely and I left the place took the next bus reach that spot there and Wednesday in search of the family and sure enough. I went there. Everything was dilapidated. Nothing was the there was just a simple room a veranda politécnica. See there's no flooring the nothing other side.
And naturally I was in Makati Tokyo of that military dress at the time of the British Isles.
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So the old lady was there said well, so unsupportive is here. This is now what has he done. He has not done anything. Now. What what what is it? She was frightened. See you there. I said there's nothing to be afraid of in the meantime. The daughters came and I saw those beautiful girls over there behind the clothes to cover the body.
The total all one of the girl grownup girl, her bosom was there I could see that and she was shy yet. She will try to defend the mother or something defend their house or something. They thought that I had come from some office, you know to collect some taxes or something of that sort.
I said no. No, I'm not that I have come here. My elder brother has sent me. I have come to I heard that said there's some difficulty in your house now come to help.
So if you don't help me don't help us it won't be possible for us to pay any interest on it. Let alone to return you to the capital later on don't help us. It's all right, it doesn't matter further you some other pull on please don't help us anymore. So no. No, it's nothing. It's to be given to you. We don't want it back. We don't want any interest rates as I'm not come for that. My elder brother has sent me specially to give to you something.
But I want the man.
Because he has gone on duty you so when will he come so he'll come late in the evening his far away as walk the distance and come when he goes next morning will go away. I said, will you do one thing? You need not go for work the next day. Don't take a holiday and I will come again. I'll come specially from Pune to see the man. Will you please do one thing keep him at home and don't send it. I'll come specially for him.
Are you sure you won't take it back? You won't have want to have any interest you wouldn't want us to give the thing back to you. None of the other. It's a gift straight away gift of money. I said money I have to pay.
Give us a price a person a stranger want to give money like that and I my heart said that this is the family.
So I said I'll come please do that favor. It's a favorite for sure will be will kill him and I came the next day and the man was there and he looked had a look on his face of surprise and anxieties. What's this? You never expect anybody to come like that stranger to come and help him like that. So he I go there I explained to him the whole situation. I said, I have come not with the intention of giving you a loan or
Expecting any interest out of it any news without any expectation on the contrary will ask you to accept it an obligor my elder brother a simple.
All right. What is it as a priest and up here remain standing and about down to his feet seven times. I gave the packet I said this is a gift from God to you. Please accept an obliging I am I'm going so this is what it means. So this is what I did and he burst out into tears and he's dead.
We are there from there from his family. He says are you a messenger from God? I said, no. I have come just from my older brother. This is do you realize what you have done to be? No, this is when I came back last night. I had determined not to go back to my post again. I wanted to commit suicide.
It was unbearable for me to live this life.
But God heard my voice and he said Rich. Can I ask you a question about the significance of the Dooney? I don't understand the new the origin of it bobbles work now. We commemorate it.
What what should we say about the significance of the Dooley?
Well, you can ask of course, but what me, I tell you pardon.
Loudly so yeah. Yeah speak loudly so that others can hear you. You know, why you speak softly because he has got those earphones and even when he speaks softly he hears it loudly whereas we don't hear you.
Why are you beating your phone is Christina's going to be here till do need it. Now? I'm gonna miss the tell me that's another thing - to go to Pune on Monday doesn't matter.
Well, you are asked for the significance of the do need a first of all first and foremost after all. What is this Dooney business? You see? What is Dunya he must know that I do know that I presume it means fire, but I don't know.
Ash does it mean Ash?
What can I say?
The other day, I still remember.
When dr. Schuster was here when were you here?
October last you were here when there were seven doctors sitting around here doctors of letters.
So they are they are the pundits. You see because this is a Sanskrit word recent script sized. So I asked them the same question after all what is due knees.
Under the different definitions given to us, but all boiling down to the same thing is yeah. It's a symbol symbolic representation of our one-pointedness our love our wanting to surrender and all that sort of thing. Dunya is that
What was it at the time what conclusion we came has happened brother Ed now coming to the point. I don't know myself. What do you mean really speaking? But we have come to the conclusion that
At present Dave be considered early to be a fire. That is lit in a pit.
And why is it?
Considered to be sacred and all that sort of thing will solve nothing but a conjecture but it's a logical conclusion that we are come to
What had happened? We have to go back some thousands of years from now.
It's the symbol of one who has renounced the world.
Who has established himself at a place don't lie lost in communion with the Lord.
And thousands of years ago. It was in Vogue here in Union.
Least
That you have certain life span and that life span has to be spent properly.
And the culmination of your lifespan should be spent to be properly spent is to be in communion with the Lord the end part of your life.
In the beginning naturally your childhood if they your Pampered by your parents and then you grow up and then you have to have the education and then you have to be under the tutor and then you have to get married and then you have to lead a married life family life and then you're done gross yourself in some business or take up some job that's seeing to your own welfare and the welfare of your kith and kin.
Contributing something to the world from you. But what about your contribution to the Lord the Creator himself, so your portion couple of decades for that and are deep in part of your life. Say when you are about 50 60. I'm sorry you start to yeah, you start to move out from the world from the periphery of
World towards reality
And in order to do that in the early years means Millennia pass what these to do Kona Baba, huh? I'm sorry. So what happened? Is that what did they used to do? Hi-yah Millennia back what this is naturally. They used to follow this traditional form of life. You see lifespan. So what do you use to do is today's to bid goodbye to their family.
Handle the charge to grown up children that were there and leave the world leave the world in the sense leave it and I leave everything you get out and they will go away far far away away from
You may call it human beings.
So when these two go out it was a forested area all over the place and I go to the peak a place where there will be water. Nearby Forest Area is there to be secluded and to be totally lost in thoughts of the Lord the creative. This is a contribution the one's own contribution to to glorify the Lord you see
So that's how they would go so they would go there and give their life in contemplation.
As with the passage of time as he has rolled by and all that sort of thing. Naturally man. First begins to DARE him to lose himself get himself away from the worldly ways, but then he has he has been living with lot of companies and if he is himself lost in does not know what to do and to top it all you see he's in an in an area Infested by animals insects and many things.
In spite of his determination and daring now live for the Lord but still human body is their mind is there so many he was just just a few years ago. He was in the world now, he's out of it now and he's trying to look for the Lord, but all these encumbrances are there. So the best thing that he found out was and of course the weather conditions were
Ruff cold winds would blow and how and what you call he'll feel the cold and all that and the clothes that were there. They lasted for some years. You can call it a couple of years at the most we got torn. This is no he's no more he's totally naked because he has left the world has nothing to do that. So and yet hit days to set in contemplation and is transported to the Realms of reality in his mind.
He thinks of something to give him company to be to be totally left undistracted by insects in a mosquitoes and insects are there just at you just given it to your Coral white because of tea, but he doesn't want these distractions and all that. There might be something to help him out.
So
The Ingenuity of man
This is fire is wonderful to Deuce me company it gives me warm.
It keeps away the wild beasts the smoke of it keeps away the insects.
Is good gives me company to so that's how man first thought keeping in company with the fire.
And he lit a fire and he is to be there sitting in contemplation and getting himself lost time. And again when he would come down to the world Consciousness to see it put some logs or some wood or something like that and again light the fire and keep himself water was very close by The Roots were there to feed him proves would be there and his body felt the cold so he thought her Ingenuity he could face.
Full of action blocked his balls, you know and clothed himself the - which fitted with his renunciation having to do nothing with the world and helium and many reach the Heights in the contemplations many could many did find the master who came to the Zuni and blessed the striving soul.
You see when the Seeker it is said so when seeking is genuine and when the time is ripe the master himself comes to him. It's not for the Seeker to seek. The master is for the master to come to the seeker and get him out of seeking.
And make him those thought one of the Lord.
So that's how it was. So what happens is that this Dunya is an ancient traditional symbolic representation of one great one who must have sat the hunters would come afterwards. The person has died who had lived the dually there but still the charcoal and Ash and pit would be there. It seems to be a sacred spot. Somebody great must have contemplated here who must have lost his life eternal.
By the beach then later on so it's a symbolic.
Some Mark you see so you may call it a mascot of the one who has renounced the world.
An emblem for the one who has renounced or Dooney.
And in later years now after that is it went on and on and on with the passage of the time you see everyone who wanted to establish himself somewhere and create an area of sanctity. There would be a pick there and they do knee would be lit. So that would be taken as something sacred and nobody would want to disturb even the worst of the enemies wouldn't want to destroy that the something Secret.
The most personal to have some somebody who has lived this so that's how it is considered to be a symbol of sanctity renunciation.
So that's how it is and it's good for the aspirants on the path. The Seekers who went round Travis told all over the country and all that wherever they would try to make the headquarters. They would have this boonie late, but you might say that well you why does Sarah's gone rambling like that? I simply asked for the do need a why the heck does he go around and what does he not come to the point? But how may I come to the point you see?
There's no point you come too.
We are talking about the God man use and does he need any symbol has he renounced the world he comes to let her tell us that world is nothing but an illusion there's nothing to renounce you. See he just wants you to become aware. There is nothing to be said except your own service the lower self.
You have not to leave the world or India to live in the world and share your low self-esteem. He doesn't come to ask you to renounce the world or in Kansas side. So what about the symbolic representation why this Dooney business, so I'm trying to build up a background to explain to you you follow so be indulgent with this rambling that goes on here. I have that dirty habit, you know, what can I do?
It is so so what happens is now as years pass by.
The symbol that has been established. You see as Mark of spirituality. It was taken as a mark of spirituality.
Instead of being the sign for one who truly annunciator had abided over at a place which is now taken as a symbol of spirituality sign for spirituality. That's how it is. So all the gurus all the sayings all those who you may call it who will be Seekers are on the path.
The diamond again. You see would establish this fire and call it the unifier. How does it derive its name? You see blue Me is from Australia from the smoke.
Or from the ash or what happens is while in contempt while the fire is lit. There is that contemplation and repetition of the same name of the Lord is baba, baba, baba baba. That is known as Doom repeating the same repeating the name of the Lord repeating means the same name of the Lord or in a rhythm that
Known anything that is rhythmically in chorus repeated this Doom before and maybe from that the name Dooley has been derived or from the smoke. That is Dewey.
Do re mean smoke?
So that's how I believe that's the thing. That's how I feel. What do you think is a pundit himself. She was yeah.
But did Bobby say we just a minute? You don't know you should know you're funny, huh here. We know that with nobody knows anything. I know that he don't know.
The origin of the word so that's how it is. So now what happens is now we are coming to your point don't be impatient. So what happened is that naturally you can't expect that meher Baba should establish himself.
Or be known to have established himself by the symbolic representation of Dreaming or unconscious or nothing on that song. He came here and you as a man, he came and had people flocking around him and all that and he harness their energies you see into renovating those barracks and all that sort of thing and they could he called it what sort of yoga that you are mastered Indulgence that Camilla. Yoga doesn't mean comella means the Basin carrying load of Earth, you know and dumping here and taking
Out and all that. He has nothing to do with this sort of thing. But what had happened is
The women the Divine whim
In some early years you see when he had come to mehrabad.
This area this whole District was under the spell of drug severe drought no rainfall.
And the farmers were totally at a loss what to do their Wills had dried up there is no irrigation. Nope, irrigation through canals or anything of the sort. So they depended upon the the level of the table water table that had gone down. They had their nothing except the employer.
For intervention of the law.
For the mercy the shower upon them having heard that some great person has come here in this area. Why not approach him after we have tried our best decision. We have failed in all these things why not approach you so they came in a procession from all the villages the heads of the village and other villagers also crowd came to him and the begged of him to intervene.
And maybe he was the Lord was pleased so that we may have all this rambling on do need today that he said are you better go away from here go back. There you go. Hurry. Hurry back to your homes.
But he won't rain here you go back. Otherwise, you'll get drenched don't detain yourself here you go away. But where is the sign of rain you here is scorching heat of the sun is the you better go away. So some others who were around him said you better now that you have come and asking him but to go back. Otherwise, you'll get rain Cheese's go go hurry up do as he tells you to do if you are coming here to ask him to be intercede on your behalf. So what happened is that as soon most of
Did Lee Lee some of them liked nearby Villages and all that sort of thing feeling frustrated that even having gone there had no charm in it, but I immediately told when the villagers were cleared out of the gun grounds. Bubba said light like a Dooney here showing the spot where the Dunya is now nearby.
On near the main road. It was a dirt road at that time. So that pit was dug and said like the do need
I will delete the Dooney.
And there was a prayer or some Artie that was sung there or something like that. Baba's presence was this.
And
The Lord was glorified for his bounties and all that and sure enough the cloud started Gathering.
And there was such a downpour that those were lighted and not return to their Villages. It was difficult for them to got drenched and so memorable T. The loonie was lit and the rain did become involved in Torrance. That's why it is remembered the boonies remembered well, but it is not the day the day has been that may have been some other day. We don't know who so ever may remember Bank.
Remember it I don't know but what happened is that of course, then there is another little sequel to it. Bob asked all those who were there took in Praise of the Dooney. Now that rain has come you see and people's hearts were delighted and all that. So in Praise of the Dooney create a song for this lunacy, so many attempts were made in all that and this and that and all that stuff. So Rooney was called the friend of the Lord the valley is
Known as the friend of God Wiley. So Bob addressed it as the valley.
The path there are valleys p is perfect with such good boobs and all that. This is a friend of God. And actually he's a friend of God to help help the Lord's will to get raped. That's how some compositions have been made and all that and it was all forgotten Villages were very happy, but it was all forgotten. Rooney was forgotten.
Sometime afterwards. Again. Baba says just lighted doing it was the 12th of the month and again after some years that passed away again. He called for the do need to be lit, and it was in 1954. We remember
That he told us to light the Dunya again, but at the same time there were some westerners were there some easterners were there and he said like the Tony it was the 12th of the month and that time. He said have some little splinters you see around sandal wood splinters and got it in a tray full of splinters there and put it there and he himself lived the Dooney. I don't know whether you have seen this is a picture taken of Baba lighting the Zuni himself this time you all have seen
It is in the finish the bird this really is lit and Bob odden, he told those who have got were gathered. This is I wish you each pick up a splinter and put it in the Dooney fire representing that attachment which bestows you most.
That particular thing of which you are most attached for you did unifier.
That's how they did it. That's all and afterwards Baba says after sometime after some years again. He says like the new me every 12th of the month.
And since then every 12 hours a month those who are in charged like to do me but they don't light it some extraordinary pure person comes you see somebody comes from Puerto. Rico says, oh it's a good representation of the world you like if somebody comes from Japan you like to party till somebody sometimes somebody is chosen to light the to me and all are there in the sing and praise the Lord with Baba. That's the that's how it is.
Why did I bow down to it though? I don't understand this. This is a pretty your hair partly in the fire frightening. Whoo-hoo wants you to bow down to body wants you to bow down. Yes those who wish to bow down to about and there's no compulsion to the fire. No, you're not dying. You're borrowing de you about why do you have to bow down to what you have to do is to bow down to him who is fire.
And there is a nice little composition on fire fellow traveler the Lal kitab Le so there's a nice composition of Bob has given have you read that that he himself so we bow down to him respecting the you may call it culminating that particular occasion by offering one so basins in the spirit,
But we have carried out. I'm afraid to do it. You don't do it. Then you would keep away from there. Yeah, keep at a distance what is needed what is needed? What is needed is no nothing to do.
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Eruch Jessawalla - The Ingenuity of Man
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I'm coming from on the Plaza from Gaza to my family saying that I want you all to be back in a month later on. So today because this day is fixed for your inquiry engagement of errors and meru. Meru is my sister.
She's dead no more now. So what my mother policies that they are called there for your engagement engage engagement.
Okay, those are the years when kids were under the control of the curve. No wonder the when writing against them seen the 60s and what do we find? All Arrangements have been made for Big Show that is that my sister. I had to be engaged to the daughter of
Family who was my cousin to and her brother was to be engaged to my sister.
So they're here he made preparations for all that and we got engaged that day. He put the Rings in our fingers and all that the best part of the whole engagement. I still remember the great fish to be had Glutton that I am so that was good. It was gonna be that we got engaged and as a reward, we got two good piece have you met the parents of that that side you see they wanted
They should call me relationship closer links with this just all the family.
So does this
But the only thing that was there that myself to return to college with a ring around my finger was too embarrassing and what with my friends say what will happen. I didn't care as long as I had the priest you see I remember the police so I went back and because surely enough people started questioning me. What what happening. What's this dream? Are you married? No as I'm engaged.
What happened to not fund some yarn and all that and I pacified them that yes, I'm engaged. So what?
That engagement is I remained engaged for 7 or more years because in two years time, you heard that Baba called the we came. I was engaged my brother was young. We are taking him out of the school. My sister was engaged to me remaining games.
Yes passing but then when we came to Bob of the first thing that he told us as I told you all what had happened and all that then we settle down and Baba at that time. We retreat was under construction at the time of the westerners and miramanee and Court shed lived in that other adjoining room to the museum, which is now a museum room was also occupied by the Eastern ladies and so forth and so on.
And men with all down the hill you follow all women up there and my duty was to escort him down the hill and when he's down the hill he has to I had to be the temple him do whatever he tells me to do and again as caught him up there and that's the end of the day then in 1939 be asked me to be with him for the tour driving the bus and all that. So I went out on the floor then in 1939 40 41 42 43 44
What all the tools that we see the books in the I was all the time with him now the when I am with him now the beauty is now a me to read is bored of this and that and all I'm sick of all the activities not in the midst but I'm ver all the time you see day and night all the time. It is nighttime. Nobody's there. Keep Watch Daytime try the car drive the bus the in between daytime and nighttime.
- even I am there I just shaved see somewhere somehow other and wash myself somewhere in some tap or something because maybe I'm the only man you see and there was another person with macaca was an older person poor fellow. Both of us. You see the same man who told me about engineering is he saying is we got harness together? So some other and in daytime article in the bus daytime is be good before starting for the journey filled the Cassie the oil Caesars that and everything hold.
Thank you for hours and get the body is engaged. No, no time to think.
Why I'm doing it, there's no time even to think why I'm doing this. What's the matter with you? So it's all there you didn't refer to that is his Blessing his grace. So then it went on and on 1949 Kay.
But what was I yeah, then it went on 43-44 between that time we are here what it is. We are here because 4243 the smells are going to stablish to about seeing people here then 43. I hear some 43 of 44. I forget now, which is my wedding here. Also, how many years were there are 36 how many years have you say what to do so
43 now eight years young age. So one day a bizarre man comes from another wish to bring our marketing and all that. So I take accounts and the sort of thing also, he says, you know today I had been to a bar press this and there was a lot of rewards and all that.
I just heard that what's that all about something happened from right? There is no longer something something in the family. Something was happening. I received a note from somebody my relative that my in-laws were so perturbed about this prolonged engagement, which they had never heard or seen ow, and when they find that well the family on whom they depended to marry their children what has happened is that
Join Bob and they are monitoring their reading of on life of my sister. But also come Bond told Mother sisters and all that my brother used to also come whenever we are not told you to put in some school for fellow and he will have to join there for 3-4 months again. He's taken away and join again and so forth very disrupted education, but he studied he was very intelligent. He is very intelligent. Very quiet opposite my nature.
I am impatient. He is the sun if occasionally patient.
Go what are you reading? The note is that well today. It was a very bad day. The in-laws see our great reporters. And unfortunately, they are so distressed that they are thrown Baba's picture in the world that you do.
Just because it's all so vague because you all don't you have not decided to get married and all that stuff.
It was like a thunderbolt. I had nothing to do with me Baba as such there is no love lost in that and but this sort of thing. I don't understand what is what has happened to me. And what's in my mind even today. Why should I feel kabaeva like that? Why did they throw the picture of Baba? I have nothing to say about the other picture and pictures are there photos of the I'm really brought by that person. You see I have nothing. I'm no receipt.
Got to respect for printed things or anything of that sort like that. I have a good kind heart I did have and I still have but what made me think I'd hurt you. So badly that in a half. I went to bother.
And I said do you wish us to get married or you don't want us to get married?
The do you wish to get married? He's asking me this question. I said it is eight years. You got a cengage and do you wish us to get married. Do you wish to get married? I said, yes. I want to get married.
Get the calendar this particular day is nice because all people from mehrabad will be free. They will be coming to the area. It's a good thing good day fix this day says send a word and then I told Barbara that such a thing as happens is good. You good. You are getting married. Very good. We'll arrange we have will do the tell them that you are getting married on this day make arrangements. Yeah. I had to also see to all the sort of thing. You know, I had to go to Pune to get
My wedding, what do you call it?
Dress so whatever it was all the all the author's Russian Orthodoxy just try to surface itself. You see because of appeasing the in-laws and all that. So I went there and on my own I did all this a as if I had had the East to get married. All right get married then arrange for it. I arranged all this. Yeah.
No, that was a sick dog. Love yet not be caught will die. But the rest of the self and so forth. So, you know, the one W is that and Fanta Fanta? You know what Theta is.
I'll show you what to do. So I've got that not not mine own but it's a baba. So what happened is that I well the day has come Baba women only becomes the two days prior to the wedding and stays there are bad press and they are all very happy to hear that the same day. They are very penitent about it the day that they received the note and they beg forgiveness of Bob and Barbara forgive them and
Fine
The days
All the preparations are there I get married, you know, what is after all getting magic? Well, the priest and the others must you must have the blessings of the priest and must have the Goodwill of the guests were being called as witnesses that we are getting married so that we may lead a straight life. You know, that's why the Witnesses are called you call are either 500 or a thousand liquid system feed them to be Witnesses. That's how it's all that thing started. You know, it's visited.
Beginning formerly there were only five but then as people could afford five started expanding into 50 and 50 into 500 5000 feed them as what to be witnesses that I and my wife will lead live together like
That's how it is.
Baba, baba was there there were two weddings at the time taking place on the stage myself and my wife bright and my sister and her bridegroom. What about you will call me. So they were all seated there and for priests are showering Their Blessings and mumbo-jumbo. It went on for one and a half hours and Bob and was standing there all the time here. We are sitting seated there and he's looking at us.
But of course that I was attending to Barbara that was my job.
That is the wedding day down. So now again I have to resume my attention as soon as I get out of the desire to go and run to Bob has entered into his Cottage the I go there so bad. I said well
Is the food good can you get the food supper it is you need time usually have any it's so I'm hungry. I said, yes food must be ready. You get me my tray I went and got his leg if I finished it.
I'm done. I sold him and he ate and after he ate.
He of course gave me one morsel of Prasad. That's usual. He used to do that. He knew that my saliva was drooling when there is food some it is a fact so you always feed me first. So then
After food is over. He said he I washed his hands and all that. This is by the way now it's time it's time is coming out for me to retire who will be the night Watchman today. What is with me in the night? I said I am. I'm the usual but you forget you're married. You have to go on a honeymoon or something like that, isn't it?
Yes, I'm married.
But I can if I continue to keep watch here for a couple of nights where as long as you are here afterwards, of course, I don't do that. There is no struggle Master should be there.
So all the three but Gil caution like it was my wife call her.
So she came are you happy now? Yes very happy Bobby embraced her and all that says you Embrace her father tells me and she embraced me. I embraced her and we kissed each other and all that and this is conscious who will keep night. Watch tonight. Here is used to keep on tonight fool. He is why it is can continue. Here it is, but y'all are married today.
What home is this you can continue?
You don't mind. I don't mind games. She earned another Embrace from that.
I am very happy and pleased with your answer take this food is Baba gave her something to eat and all that and she is about to leave so Baba caps and calls her back.
It's so good. I'm so pleased with your answer.
How about you and it is living as brother and sister?
From now on
As you please she said I'll do whatever you want me to I want you all to live as brother and sister.
That's how we got married. So that's how it is. So you are.
Well, she she lives with her parents and she would come and live with our parents. My parents would say no. Well, where is the opportunity? I am with Baba all the time including like a madman Range Rover roaming about is wandering the relative think that they don't know. I don't I don't know whether they knew anything about it. No, I don't I doubt very much. Nobody knows anything about cheese. She died. She has recently cut.
More importantly, he knows the family life. Now the permitted them if he became the manager of Sorrows motorboat, he was intelligent person. He held responsible posts and all that baba got him out of that and made him the manager of service Motor Works.
Under Federal and this was a big concern not the thing that you see now is all grouping there and almost dead that but the whole compound will be filled with trucks and sorrow shown all the theater given in the block itself and in the district and lot of activity will be he needed some help so intelligent and faithful person honest man. So Bob I got him out and put him there and my sister and my brother-in-law lived at the same.
The court has ever the trust office is now the money's offices was the sitting room and Baba paid visits all of very often to my sisters and my sister and some other at gone. Very come very close to Baba whenever food was necessary for my mother. It was my sister who can send the clothes for new life that were to be staged for the women. She was the one who would do that the tailor that who comes here now was thought to be a tailor by my sister so that he can sell the women here. And so what my sister was very active.
Very energetic very life.
Yes, what was your wife?
Who am I? Why should I be? There are people around here. The hall is full. I'm here interpreting. His gestures. Baba is here some excuses. They have our sentencing out. I forget now what it is all about some companies that I want to have sick of glass. I have a sip of water. I have water there. Somebody catches hold of you for a snapshot.
I said no don't know I wasn't happy because I was very Twitter. Don't do that. No, no. No, I had no guy. Do you want to waste your baba hurt?
Heard my voice. Yeah by called me. What is it? What why are you speaking in this way when it's about is somebody who's pestering me take snacks take my snap there and doing the want my photo and all that. This is so what?
Who are you? Who do you take yourself to be?
Daughter will not to do so to say that we shouldn't do who are you? Why are you so presumptions about your being what you are?
Allow him to take it.
From that day onward whether you want me to take it naked or whether as I will take it as I say, I have no say in who are you not to share?
They were reasons behind it. Look at your reasons. You forget yourself the reasons.
One of the reasons this time in search of families who were one well of but due to some circumstances. Well, they lost their belt and they are neither poor nor beggars.
But they try to meet both ends some are other try to find out and then I will go with you all and will help them.
All right, what we'll do is we'll all go together.
Instead of your coming and a game going we go. Why waste money?
That's what happened. So we used to go out and what we noticed was.
That when we did find these people with great difficulty is to travel Thousand Miles 800 miles need one family like that.
I was impossible for us to bring to them that they should accept something from us news from Baba.
They will do want to stretch their hands out to accept anything.
But with great difficulty would coax them to accept.
And there are many good stories about that. You want to hear the stories? These are the families that once Baba had the pleasure to contact them and we must have contacted about the score of them. But the ones that touch me most are these that I remember
The standout
Where Do We Begin now we begin with a day when we are at mehrabad
Even family problems what Financial Financial? Yeah, there are very well of there are people who had their own what you call the solution Comic character when you get when you come home car so you can know what you know, what what is who must he be there who can own a saloon you like it?
Ivy came across such a band who had lost everything I had nothing and what he depended upon he and his wife depends upon having a small case made out of Soap Box, you know faithful and there the shells were there and they were selling babies and cigarettes and matches.
They still live on that.
There are others who had elephants at that doors and Gates you seated on their palaces and they were reduced circumstances Time and Tide wait for no man, just like that you die or you your lowered from the position to a position which you had never even dreamt of in your life these people to contact them and induce them to accept helpful. If we just ask it is easier for us to get the masts to the Lord.
Going to get these people to accept those things. You never thought of that and Ava showed us. How are you?
So we are in Moraga. Mehrabad one day and that small cabin. That is the rori cabin that is enough. You have seen that with the star and across and all that at lower. Mehrabad. There's a cabin called the how recapping all the material all the material from Rory mad ashram.
Bob has cabin got shifted from there and brought here and created this room. That is
We call it. We call it the Rowdy cabin.
So that was the interview room just as in Portuguese, you have that Lagoon cabin, which is his interview room where you see people with them interview them. So so this became that Cabot that room for baba baba is seated the domain picture the bada God is their small matrices and Bubba sits there and people come in this court and sit in their bubble sees them interviews them help them out with the problem monthly come there. They are called.
Instructions are given all the stuff that was awful.
So as years passed by I meeting was bored. I am there all the time by his side. This happened in my presence.
Any Ronnie come from somewhere Bombay? Most probably I will not forget. You must have been bombed it he come. Well, he comes with devotion and much love. We see his love. We poured out to Baba he bows down with great reverence and feeling and all that because you get beaks and all that Baba blesses him and then he takes out a packet the board of something Target.
And he offers to bother so now this is what is it about never touch money. You know that first of all that anybody offers himself is what is it?
It's nothing but a simple offering keep it down. So push it down there. What is it Bob as a simple operating from please use it in anything any way you want it? So now do one thing I have received love that you have offered it. I received he take it you use it yourself, but Baba brought it for you. I have enough space for your work. No you take it it goes on tussle goes on.
After a few minutes that man doesn't want to obey Baba because he has these things that he has brought with love as an offering to Bob in kick it back. They said if you go from baba baba is explaining to him that I have received it with love that with the love that you have got I have accepted now, I want you to use it. No, Baba you but you baba I was there but I was just take this packet take this and keep it with you and
You will know to whom it should be given one and they still don't keep it with you at the time. I never used to handle money or anything and my work was such that I didn't wear my much clothing or enter results just like this no pockets and Jesus also get to keep it put it here. Now. It's a great burden on me to carry this money. I don't know how much money is there what it is and all our to keep it there and I will come to know to whom I should give it.
Bob versus ticket
I'm going there to take it this is stand up. So I stand so father said to me he said stand up keep telling Bob about down seven times on my feet and he says take this packet now and give it to the one who needs it, you know to whom it should be given.
And while offering you say that it's a gift from God accept it and of Life him. So I take it and keep it now. It's a problem. It's a burden with me day and night. I had to keep this packet very moment. I might find I might feel like giving somebody is so sad for me this year on man came in did that I used to carry it. I had to sleep with her. I used to know about this eternal that
October people money it so happened that again brother sent me to Pune because summertime I went to Pune.
When I when did what had happened was summertime and I'm thirsty very thirsty.
And I the naturally I would like to have some gold ring. I is my favorite thing to have something cold the other day. We spoke of made the Lord walk 18 miles. You see you have a glass of sunburn. So like why so I went I went in search of a shop. There are many shops in summertime, you know sugarcane juice dictate the juice out put some drops of lemon in it and put ice in it and offer you the cup for simple 10 points out something like that.
Formerly it was five points. I should say No Bananas now. Well Elizabeth those days are gone. The Golden Days is now your iron days of come. So rock day, so I went there and I was enjoying see
Just then the love talking going on at the counter. There was a man standing there and talking about it and I could hear the word angular Marathi Hindi fluent T. He is check is the morning the pain of the world today at that time mind. You must be about 40 years 30 40 years. Now. This must have happened somewhere in the early forties.
This 40 years. At least I should say that time you are promoting. The fate of the world is look righteousness. Never pays.
See that Injustice that has taken place the man who was so straight and so on is honesty never case. I tell you and he says no it's not that loud talking Indians and habit of talking loudly the man that he was one of the ones who had taken the ring and he's being there and happened to no one each other. So they are talking about a certain third party and he is describing what had happened and this and that he's trying to give an example to it that Honesty does not.
So he's proving by giving an example of a family my years. You see all of a sudden pick up because I want it. I had that burden with me. I'm listening and listen. Listen. Listen at last stop his talk and then you did good by me until I finish my glass and immediately approached. The man I said, will you do me a favor after paying you? Of course I said,
You do me a favor of whom are you all talking? Who is that / family that has suffered so much is it is the family still there? Where is in Pune?
What concern have you had this family? What what what concerned are you about the dog that you overheard just now?
As if there's no concerned, the only thing is I'm concerned about their welfare if I can be of any help my elder brother is in search of such family and if we can be of any help, yes should render some him like that if they deserve it, is that because what I overheard was that they deserve oh,
But you'll have to go 40 miles away from here.
The letting you run from here, I can't say I'm another can't disclose his name and identity is never to be disclosed.
So I said I'm from the area.
This is Euler to go 40 miles from here. So I will go when we address which is jotting down your dress and give to you.
He is a man who was holding a responsible position in a municipality.
And because he was a responsible man. He had to execute this work. Honestly, that's how he thought and those who are under him and those who wear above him. They were corrupt.
And he was the car in the bed of roses that were was there is other he proved to be that because he would accept graft. He will want to do anything even do anything. Unjust - sorry, you're such a state person. So they demoted him somehow by hook or crook this complainer something that I'd be most demoting demoting demoting demoting reduced to the post of back somewhere.
You know we have here you all do not have that system called the octroi we have the taxes as you enter the city limits or something like that. You have anything you have your agricultural Goods onion bags feedbags anything out of Machinery or a refrigerator that you're bringing in or out and all that you have to pay Municipal tax. So he has been made as a peon simple Club simple clerk the collect tax. That's all.
But if you are honest and correct because we need collection all the time. Nobody would accept graft and let them go is suppose the tax has to be paid is 10 Rupees the man at the post usually does that even now they do it. They accept rupees and letting go put the tube in the pocket Lucy party suffered by 10 rupee you follow it's an honest man. He is. Well you want to be honest or it's go there and be there at the post.
Oh, so that's the thing. That's that's what he told me. That such is the thing and he has been reduced that party and he has grown up daughter there and nobody's there to look at the hidden. You cannot meet both hands.
I couldn't find thank you. I thank you very much profusely and I left the place took the next bus reach that spot there and Wednesday in search of the family and sure enough. I went there. Everything was dilapidated. Nothing was the there was just a simple room a veranda politécnica. See there's no flooring the nothing other side.
And naturally I was in Makati Tokyo of that military dress at the time of the British Isles.
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So the old lady was there said well, so unsupportive is here. This is now what has he done. He has not done anything. Now. What what what is it? She was frightened. See you there. I said there's nothing to be afraid of in the meantime. The daughters came and I saw those beautiful girls over there behind the clothes to cover the body.
The total all one of the girl grownup girl, her bosom was there I could see that and she was shy yet. She will try to defend the mother or something defend their house or something. They thought that I had come from some office, you know to collect some taxes or something of that sort.
I said no. No, I'm not that I have come here. My elder brother has sent me. I have come to I heard that said there's some difficulty in your house now come to help.
So if you don't help me don't help us it won't be possible for us to pay any interest on it. Let alone to return you to the capital later on don't help us. It's all right, it doesn't matter further you some other pull on please don't help us anymore. So no. No, it's nothing. It's to be given to you. We don't want it back. We don't want any interest rates as I'm not come for that. My elder brother has sent me specially to give to you something.
But I want the man.
Because he has gone on duty you so when will he come so he'll come late in the evening his far away as walk the distance and come when he goes next morning will go away. I said, will you do one thing? You need not go for work the next day. Don't take a holiday and I will come again. I'll come specially from Pune to see the man. Will you please do one thing keep him at home and don't send it. I'll come specially for him.
Are you sure you won't take it back? You won't have want to have any interest you wouldn't want us to give the thing back to you. None of the other. It's a gift straight away gift of money. I said money I have to pay.
Give us a price a person a stranger want to give money like that and I my heart said that this is the family.
So I said I'll come please do that favor. It's a favorite for sure will be will kill him and I came the next day and the man was there and he looked had a look on his face of surprise and anxieties. What's this? You never expect anybody to come like that stranger to come and help him like that. So he I go there I explained to him the whole situation. I said, I have come not with the intention of giving you a loan or
Expecting any interest out of it any news without any expectation on the contrary will ask you to accept it an obligor my elder brother a simple.
All right. What is it as a priest and up here remain standing and about down to his feet seven times. I gave the packet I said this is a gift from God to you. Please accept an obliging I am I'm going so this is what it means. So this is what I did and he burst out into tears and he's dead.
We are there from there from his family. He says are you a messenger from God? I said, no. I have come just from my older brother. This is do you realize what you have done to be? No, this is when I came back last night. I had determined not to go back to my post again. I wanted to commit suicide.
It was unbearable for me to live this life.
But God heard my voice and he said Rich. Can I ask you a question about the significance of the Dooney? I don't understand the new the origin of it bobbles work now. We commemorate it.
What what should we say about the significance of the Dooley?
Well, you can ask of course, but what me, I tell you pardon.
Loudly so yeah. Yeah speak loudly so that others can hear you. You know, why you speak softly because he has got those earphones and even when he speaks softly he hears it loudly whereas we don't hear you.
Why are you beating your phone is Christina's going to be here till do need it. Now? I'm gonna miss the tell me that's another thing - to go to Pune on Monday doesn't matter.
Well, you are asked for the significance of the do need a first of all first and foremost after all. What is this Dooney business? You see? What is Dunya he must know that I do know that I presume it means fire, but I don't know.
Ash does it mean Ash?
What can I say?
The other day, I still remember.
When dr. Schuster was here when were you here?
October last you were here when there were seven doctors sitting around here doctors of letters.
So they are they are the pundits. You see because this is a Sanskrit word recent script sized. So I asked them the same question after all what is due knees.
Under the different definitions given to us, but all boiling down to the same thing is yeah. It's a symbol symbolic representation of our one-pointedness our love our wanting to surrender and all that sort of thing. Dunya is that
What was it at the time what conclusion we came has happened brother Ed now coming to the point. I don't know myself. What do you mean really speaking? But we have come to the conclusion that
At present Dave be considered early to be a fire. That is lit in a pit.
And why is it?
Considered to be sacred and all that sort of thing will solve nothing but a conjecture but it's a logical conclusion that we are come to
What had happened? We have to go back some thousands of years from now.
It's the symbol of one who has renounced the world.
Who has established himself at a place don't lie lost in communion with the Lord.
And thousands of years ago. It was in Vogue here in Union.
Least
That you have certain life span and that life span has to be spent properly.
And the culmination of your lifespan should be spent to be properly spent is to be in communion with the Lord the end part of your life.
In the beginning naturally your childhood if they your Pampered by your parents and then you grow up and then you have to have the education and then you have to be under the tutor and then you have to get married and then you have to lead a married life family life and then you're done gross yourself in some business or take up some job that's seeing to your own welfare and the welfare of your kith and kin.
Contributing something to the world from you. But what about your contribution to the Lord the Creator himself, so your portion couple of decades for that and are deep in part of your life. Say when you are about 50 60. I'm sorry you start to yeah, you start to move out from the world from the periphery of
World towards reality
And in order to do that in the early years means Millennia pass what these to do Kona Baba, huh? I'm sorry. So what happened? Is that what did they used to do? Hi-yah Millennia back what this is naturally. They used to follow this traditional form of life. You see lifespan. So what do you use to do is today's to bid goodbye to their family.
Handle the charge to grown up children that were there and leave the world leave the world in the sense leave it and I leave everything you get out and they will go away far far away away from
You may call it human beings.
So when these two go out it was a forested area all over the place and I go to the peak a place where there will be water. Nearby Forest Area is there to be secluded and to be totally lost in thoughts of the Lord the creative. This is a contribution the one's own contribution to to glorify the Lord you see
So that's how they would go so they would go there and give their life in contemplation.
As with the passage of time as he has rolled by and all that sort of thing. Naturally man. First begins to DARE him to lose himself get himself away from the worldly ways, but then he has he has been living with lot of companies and if he is himself lost in does not know what to do and to top it all you see he's in an in an area Infested by animals insects and many things.
In spite of his determination and daring now live for the Lord but still human body is their mind is there so many he was just just a few years ago. He was in the world now, he's out of it now and he's trying to look for the Lord, but all these encumbrances are there. So the best thing that he found out was and of course the weather conditions were
Ruff cold winds would blow and how and what you call he'll feel the cold and all that and the clothes that were there. They lasted for some years. You can call it a couple of years at the most we got torn. This is no he's no more he's totally naked because he has left the world has nothing to do that. So and yet hit days to set in contemplation and is transported to the Realms of reality in his mind.
He thinks of something to give him company to be to be totally left undistracted by insects in a mosquitoes and insects are there just at you just given it to your Coral white because of tea, but he doesn't want these distractions and all that. There might be something to help him out.
So
The Ingenuity of man
This is fire is wonderful to Deuce me company it gives me warm.
It keeps away the wild beasts the smoke of it keeps away the insects.
Is good gives me company to so that's how man first thought keeping in company with the fire.
And he lit a fire and he is to be there sitting in contemplation and getting himself lost time. And again when he would come down to the world Consciousness to see it put some logs or some wood or something like that and again light the fire and keep himself water was very close by The Roots were there to feed him proves would be there and his body felt the cold so he thought her Ingenuity he could face.
Full of action blocked his balls, you know and clothed himself the - which fitted with his renunciation having to do nothing with the world and helium and many reach the Heights in the contemplations many could many did find the master who came to the Zuni and blessed the striving soul.
You see when the Seeker it is said so when seeking is genuine and when the time is ripe the master himself comes to him. It's not for the Seeker to seek. The master is for the master to come to the seeker and get him out of seeking.
And make him those thought one of the Lord.
So that's how it was. So what happens is that this Dunya is an ancient traditional symbolic representation of one great one who must have sat the hunters would come afterwards. The person has died who had lived the dually there but still the charcoal and Ash and pit would be there. It seems to be a sacred spot. Somebody great must have contemplated here who must have lost his life eternal.
By the beach then later on so it's a symbolic.
Some Mark you see so you may call it a mascot of the one who has renounced the world.
An emblem for the one who has renounced or Dooney.
And in later years now after that is it went on and on and on with the passage of the time you see everyone who wanted to establish himself somewhere and create an area of sanctity. There would be a pick there and they do knee would be lit. So that would be taken as something sacred and nobody would want to disturb even the worst of the enemies wouldn't want to destroy that the something Secret.
The most personal to have some somebody who has lived this so that's how it is considered to be a symbol of sanctity renunciation.
So that's how it is and it's good for the aspirants on the path. The Seekers who went round Travis told all over the country and all that wherever they would try to make the headquarters. They would have this boonie late, but you might say that well you why does Sarah's gone rambling like that? I simply asked for the do need a why the heck does he go around and what does he not come to the point? But how may I come to the point you see?
There's no point you come too.
We are talking about the God man use and does he need any symbol has he renounced the world he comes to let her tell us that world is nothing but an illusion there's nothing to renounce you. See he just wants you to become aware. There is nothing to be said except your own service the lower self.
You have not to leave the world or India to live in the world and share your low self-esteem. He doesn't come to ask you to renounce the world or in Kansas side. So what about the symbolic representation why this Dooney business, so I'm trying to build up a background to explain to you you follow so be indulgent with this rambling that goes on here. I have that dirty habit, you know, what can I do?
It is so so what happens is now as years pass by.
The symbol that has been established. You see as Mark of spirituality. It was taken as a mark of spirituality.
Instead of being the sign for one who truly annunciator had abided over at a place which is now taken as a symbol of spirituality sign for spirituality. That's how it is. So all the gurus all the sayings all those who you may call it who will be Seekers are on the path.
The diamond again. You see would establish this fire and call it the unifier. How does it derive its name? You see blue Me is from Australia from the smoke.
Or from the ash or what happens is while in contempt while the fire is lit. There is that contemplation and repetition of the same name of the Lord is baba, baba, baba baba. That is known as Doom repeating the same repeating the name of the Lord repeating means the same name of the Lord or in a rhythm that
Known anything that is rhythmically in chorus repeated this Doom before and maybe from that the name Dooley has been derived or from the smoke. That is Dewey.
Do re mean smoke?
So that's how I believe that's the thing. That's how I feel. What do you think is a pundit himself. She was yeah.
But did Bobby say we just a minute? You don't know you should know you're funny, huh here. We know that with nobody knows anything. I know that he don't know.
The origin of the word so that's how it is. So now what happens is now we are coming to your point don't be impatient. So what happened is that naturally you can't expect that meher Baba should establish himself.
Or be known to have established himself by the symbolic representation of Dreaming or unconscious or nothing on that song. He came here and you as a man, he came and had people flocking around him and all that and he harness their energies you see into renovating those barracks and all that sort of thing and they could he called it what sort of yoga that you are mastered Indulgence that Camilla. Yoga doesn't mean comella means the Basin carrying load of Earth, you know and dumping here and taking
Out and all that. He has nothing to do with this sort of thing. But what had happened is
The women the Divine whim
In some early years you see when he had come to mehrabad.
This area this whole District was under the spell of drug severe drought no rainfall.
And the farmers were totally at a loss what to do their Wills had dried up there is no irrigation. Nope, irrigation through canals or anything of the sort. So they depended upon the the level of the table water table that had gone down. They had their nothing except the employer.
For intervention of the law.
For the mercy the shower upon them having heard that some great person has come here in this area. Why not approach him after we have tried our best decision. We have failed in all these things why not approach you so they came in a procession from all the villages the heads of the village and other villagers also crowd came to him and the begged of him to intervene.
And maybe he was the Lord was pleased so that we may have all this rambling on do need today that he said are you better go away from here go back. There you go. Hurry. Hurry back to your homes.
But he won't rain here you go back. Otherwise, you'll get drenched don't detain yourself here you go away. But where is the sign of rain you here is scorching heat of the sun is the you better go away. So some others who were around him said you better now that you have come and asking him but to go back. Otherwise, you'll get rain Cheese's go go hurry up do as he tells you to do if you are coming here to ask him to be intercede on your behalf. So what happened is that as soon most of
Did Lee Lee some of them liked nearby Villages and all that sort of thing feeling frustrated that even having gone there had no charm in it, but I immediately told when the villagers were cleared out of the gun grounds. Bubba said light like a Dooney here showing the spot where the Dunya is now nearby.
On near the main road. It was a dirt road at that time. So that pit was dug and said like the do need
I will delete the Dooney.
And there was a prayer or some Artie that was sung there or something like that. Baba's presence was this.
And
The Lord was glorified for his bounties and all that and sure enough the cloud started Gathering.
And there was such a downpour that those were lighted and not return to their Villages. It was difficult for them to got drenched and so memorable T. The loonie was lit and the rain did become involved in Torrance. That's why it is remembered the boonies remembered well, but it is not the day the day has been that may have been some other day. We don't know who so ever may remember Bank.
Remember it I don't know but what happened is that of course, then there is another little sequel to it. Bob asked all those who were there took in Praise of the Dooney. Now that rain has come you see and people's hearts were delighted and all that. So in Praise of the Dooney create a song for this lunacy, so many attempts were made in all that and this and that and all that stuff. So Rooney was called the friend of the Lord the valley is
Known as the friend of God Wiley. So Bob addressed it as the valley.
The path there are valleys p is perfect with such good boobs and all that. This is a friend of God. And actually he's a friend of God to help help the Lord's will to get raped. That's how some compositions have been made and all that and it was all forgotten Villages were very happy, but it was all forgotten. Rooney was forgotten.
Sometime afterwards. Again. Baba says just lighted doing it was the 12th of the month and again after some years that passed away again. He called for the do need to be lit, and it was in 1954. We remember
That he told us to light the Dunya again, but at the same time there were some westerners were there some easterners were there and he said like the Tony it was the 12th of the month and that time. He said have some little splinters you see around sandal wood splinters and got it in a tray full of splinters there and put it there and he himself lived the Dooney. I don't know whether you have seen this is a picture taken of Baba lighting the Zuni himself this time you all have seen
It is in the finish the bird this really is lit and Bob odden, he told those who have got were gathered. This is I wish you each pick up a splinter and put it in the Dooney fire representing that attachment which bestows you most.
That particular thing of which you are most attached for you did unifier.
That's how they did it. That's all and afterwards Baba says after sometime after some years again. He says like the new me every 12th of the month.
And since then every 12 hours a month those who are in charged like to do me but they don't light it some extraordinary pure person comes you see somebody comes from Puerto. Rico says, oh it's a good representation of the world you like if somebody comes from Japan you like to party till somebody sometimes somebody is chosen to light the to me and all are there in the sing and praise the Lord with Baba. That's the that's how it is.
Why did I bow down to it though? I don't understand this. This is a pretty your hair partly in the fire frightening. Whoo-hoo wants you to bow down to body wants you to bow down. Yes those who wish to bow down to about and there's no compulsion to the fire. No, you're not dying. You're borrowing de you about why do you have to bow down to what you have to do is to bow down to him who is fire.
And there is a nice little composition on fire fellow traveler the Lal kitab Le so there's a nice composition of Bob has given have you read that that he himself so we bow down to him respecting the you may call it culminating that particular occasion by offering one so basins in the spirit,
But we have carried out. I'm afraid to do it. You don't do it. Then you would keep away from there. Yeah, keep at a distance what is needed what is needed? What is needed is no nothing to do.
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