THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

142 THE GOD MANperiods of their lives. It is due to these highly evolved souls and Masters of their age that the placeis surcharged with spiritual atmosphere. At Sarnath, a few miles away, Buddha had his first centrewith his disciples, it was then woods. Baba contacted certain types of spiritually dazed souls andother persons in beggarly attire in the city. At Agra the disciples experienced seeing the Taj withhim, and at Allahabad Baba got out alone and looked upon the junction of the two rivers, theGanges and the Jumna.A day was given to visiting places connected with the life of Krishna: Muttra, where he was born,and Brindaban, which is the scene of his childhood, where he drew the gopies and cowherds withthe melody of his flute. As Baba and his disciples approached the river at Brindaban, a youngishman wearing what resembled a fool's cap, sat on a wall playing a flute; when he noticed Baba hestopped and in a loud voice cried out 'Here comes the Flute Player', which is another name forKrishna. He didn't want money, he didn't want anything, he just ran ahead with dancing steps andflute, a short distance in front of Baba. The guide, thinking he was being annoying, tried to drivethe man away with a stick. Baba said 'Let him be'. Some stern-faced priests near a temple lookedscornfully. He followed playing and crying 'Krishna is here! Krishna is here!' Just before returningto the bus, extraordinary greetings or signals went on between Baba and the man, an unmistakablerecognition. Later Baba informed his party that he had come for this man, who was a highlyevolved soul. Such 'fools of God' take this guise so that the world should pass them by, so Babasaid.Outside Delhi a visit was paid to the tomb of Nizamuddin, a great Muhammadan saint. It wasthere in a cell-like chamber that a man who resembled a prophet with noble countenance stood inthe darkened doorway with light shining upon his face. For a moment in silence the man and Babagazed at one another and transcendence seemed to radiate from the man's eyes. Later Baba said thathe was on the fifth plane of consciousness and did spiritual work in connection with his own.The party were to stay in Delhi for ten days in some comfort at a hotel, but after a day or twoBaba said he could not do his work there, so they were off to an unspecified destination. Thisproved to be Ajmer, on the Aravalli Hills, a place of pilgrimage. To a small house taken by Baba,masts were brought, whom he bathed, shaved and fed as usual. He had earlier said 'The last twobirthdays I bowed down to the poor, this birthday will be quite different, I shall bow and be