In the Company of Avatar Meher Baba
De Simple Silence.
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[modifier] The Year Of Dropping His Body
We were going to Delhi from Madras by Grand Truck Express. It was a long journey and on the way Baba encouraged us to entertain Him with stories, talks or skits just to pass time.
Baba said that He had a year in His mind. In that year a very great event would take place and the whole universe would receive a shock thereby. The year might be anything between 1950 and 1999 and the one who gave the exact year in His mind would receive a five-rupee note as reward. Everyone made a try for it and Baba would say, « No, not that. »
When my time came I said, « 1969. »
Baba at once said, « Exactly, you are right. I have fixed up that year in my mind. How did you come to it that I have that year in my mind? »
« Even now I don’t know what is there in your mind. Perhaps you want to give me the prize and have therefore confirmed my conjecture, » I submitted.
« No, it is not so ; you must have come to this year by some thinking and what is it? » enquired Baba.
« Baba, you like numbers 1, 7 and 9 and consider them to be important. Figures 1 and 9 were already supplied to you by others. By figure, I mean the sum total of all the numbers. I have arrived at the figure 7 by adding all the digits in 1969, » I said. The prize was given to me.
On the 31st January, 1969, when Baba dropped His body, I recalled to my mind this incident and then realised the significance Baba had attached to the year 1969 and the great event that would give a shock to the whole world was the dropping of His body.
This was how He suggested the year of dropping His body.
© 1992 M. R. Dhakephalkar
