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

284 THE GOD-MANgroups from distant places. He also went from time to time to Meherabad.During November an American engineer, Don Stevens, spent some time with Baba, an account of whichis given in Listen Humanity! (New York, Dodd Mead & Co. 1957). The book God Speaks had beenpublished the previous September in New York, by the same publishers, edited by Don Stevens and IvyDuce: a description will be given later.From 7 November until 3 December a series of sahawas was called at Meherabad. Two pandals forsleeping and feeding were erected, somewhat as before. Four weeks were devoted to these sahawas, twohundred men each week belonging to a particular language group, Gujerati, Telugu, Hindi and Marathi. Atthe start all were urged by Baba to be with him as freely and intimately as the resident mandali. 'On mypart', he said, 'I shall be equally free and frank with you; but do not expect to hear only pleasant thingsfrom me.' He went on to say, 'Try to forget what you think you already know'. He said: 'There is no sensein shouting "Avatar ki jai" every now and then. If you want to shout do so within your hearts. Let it not beheard by others.'Among those who came was a man named Mouni Buwa who had been keeping silence for many years.Baba asked ifhe were still silent. He nodded 'Yes'. Baba then ordered him to speak. He uttered 'Parabrama.Parabrama'. Baba then went on:"You say you want God-realization. It is all superficial. I want to warn all who approach me that theyshould not expect health, wealth, wife or children from me. I tell you that those who have associated withme through love have suffered complete material pain. History records this. All I give is God. I want onlyLove."The story was told of how Kaikobad, referred to earlier, had craving for God. For eleven years he waswith Baba, to whom he dedicated his means and family. Baba kept him away from the mandali. From 1August 1944 he repeated Baba's name one hundred thousand times every day. In 1946 he was on MeherHill and had an experience, he saw Baba. The experience was repeated several times. Once he lostconsciousness, and was at the point of losing his body. He said he saw Baba everywhere, all the time, butnot in physical form. He says that whenever he sits in his room in the dark he sees light and can bringBaba's swarup before him. Baba commented:"This is not God-realization. It is only a glimpse. It is natural for