From Wardha to Itarsi, I travelled with Mataji in a first class compartment. Only Gurupriya Didi and Abhaya stayed with Her.
At Sagar, Mataji wanted to remain in seclusion for some time. The following morning, Mataji left Sevagram for Wardha on Her way to Sagar (M.P.) via Nagpur and Itarsi. Mataji did not appreciate my interruption and ordered me to keep quiet and watch. I was greatly upset on hearing this, as I thought that Mataji was perhaps giving an indication of the early death of Bapuji which might occur within a year or so. Mataji then told Bapuji that at an opportune time She would take him away. Mataji repeated this question three times and one of the ladies replied that they would go with Bapuji. While the ladies were busy massaging Bapuji, Mataji asked them what they would do if Bapuji were taken away by Her. Bapuji got hold of the wrist of Mataji’s right hand as She was sitting close to him. Bapuji, being a patient of high blood pressure, had to go to bed at about 10 P.M., when light massage was administered to his body by his attendants, Dr. Bapuji did not allow Mataji to move to Wardha that night and succeeded in persuading Her to remain with him at Sevagram.īeddings were spread for Her and Bapuji on two wooden planks close to each other in the open veranda of Bapuji’s cottage. Bapuji also related to Mataji Bhayyaji’s cherished desire that She should stay in Gopuri for at least a month, so that Bapuji, Bhayyaji, Rajendra Babu and Swami Atmananda could discuss with Her many intricate and complex problems facing the present war-ridden world. Bapuji consented as he felt that Mataji’s presence was helping Bhayyaji to get peace of mind.īapuji now told Mataji that a mad child could not possibly give peace of mind to persons like Jamnalal Bajaj. Bhayyaji had been so much attracted by the Divine Personality of Mataji that he had repeatedly written to Bapuji from Dehradun for permission to stay with Her for longer periods. Mataji at once emphatically declared that She was neither Kamla Nehru’s nor in fact anybody’s Guru. Bapuji also told Mataji that he himself had asked Bhayyaji to meet Her, the Guru of Kamla Nehru. As soon as Mataji entered Bapuji’s room where he was plying his charkha, (spinning-wheel) She called out loudly: “Pitaji, your pagal bachhi (crazy daughter) has come to see you!īapuji remarked laughingly that if She really were a pagal bachhi, She could not possibly have impressed men like Bhayyaji, whom Bapuji was unable to give inner peace, in spite of his best efforts during thirty years of close association with him. But it seems, due to the peculiar circumstances of this meeting at an odd hour and without previous intimation, he could not find leisure to talk to Mataji in private, although this was the cherished desire of his great disciple, Seth Jamnalal Bajaj. He was certainly immensely attracted by Mataji’s radiant personality.