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

28 THE GOD-MANMany stories are told of strange occurrences at this time. It is said that one evening fourIrani youths came intending to confuse Meher Baba with questions and to beat him as ahypocrite. But when they saw him not one could open his mouth or do anything but lookshamefaced. Baba reproached them with chicken-heartedness; they still could not say a word,but fell down at his feet and went away.One evening Jamshed R. Irani, a maternal uncle of Behramji, thought he would like toknow what happened in the hut from nine 0' clock at night until dawn. So with a few friendshe went to see for himself. He knew where the hut was, for he visited Baba almost daily; butwhen Jamshed and his friends got on the Ferguson College Road they could find no trace ofthe hut. They searched in vain, they declared, and had to return home. At seven 0' clockJamshed brought an offering of fruit and flowers and confessed the wrong he had done. Babashowed no displeasure.When Baba retired it was the duty of Behli to keep watch. He was not permitted to go tosleep. One night, however, he did sleep for a short time, and on awakening found to his horrorthat Baba's bed was vacant. Behli was about to open the door of the hut, when weird figuresappeared; for he had been forbidden to open the door at night whatever happened. Horrified, hesat down and wept, and went to sleep again. On awakening he found Baba in bed.Another story is of an occasion when Behli was relieved by another disciple, Arjun Supekar.Arjun was instructed to sit outside the hut and not to permit anyone to approach it. At aboutone o'clock at night Baba called to him, 'Arjun, are you wide awake?' Arjun said that he was.'Whatever may happen, don't be frightened', warned Baba. Then before very long Arjun wasstartled by seeing two men in white robes coming towards him. He could hardly speak, butmanaged to call out, 'Who are you?' Baba replied from the hut, saying 'What's the matter,Arjun?' The figures vanished on the instant, and Baba himself appeared.During the first three months Baba used to go every Thursday evening to Kaspa Peth, wherehe would receive the devotion of his followers. Every Sunday he went on an excursion. OneSunday, in the midst of merrymaking, he ordered one of his disciples who had come with abicycle to break it into pieces and throw them into the well, a stone's throw from the placewhere they were. Nobody could understand this, and Baba gave no explanation. When the partyreturned they found that Behli had accidentally fallen into the well near Baba's hut, and hadescaped from being drowned. Baba said when