[Tavern-Talk] HEART TALK: William Donkin's Diaries, 19

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HEART TALK - Donkin's Diaries: Nineteenth Installment

Oct 25th 1940

Baba still pressing forward plans for Ceylon. Elizabeth takes her car. 
- The big bus, which I am to drive in Ceylon. This transport of cars 
to Ceylon is costing Rs 2000 and more. As yet my military permit to 
leave India has not yet come, but hope it will in a few days. 

Shariat Khan leaves tomorrow so that now only Mohammed and Chatty Baba 
remain and they will come with us to Ceylon. 

An odd tale or two about the so-called 'Bau' [Bhoot] or presence of 
suicides: it appears that if a man kills himself, he has to hang about 
the earth plane and re-incarnate again to play off his sanskaras.

At night when Baba sleeps the Bau [Bhoot], or King spirit, steps within 
the boundary of the Sadguru's territory, which is 9 miles radius, and 
when he gets near the Sadguru, he materializes, and touches the 
sleeping body of the Sadguru, and pleads for re-incarnation, but the 
presence of a waking man keeps him away; he cannot touch a man, which 
is above him in evolution.

So when Baba sleeps he often makes someone sit awake by him all night, 
with orders on no account to move away.

One night Chanji did move away, while on watch, because of an attack of 
diarrhoea. But he no sooner left the room and got outside than Baba 
came up to him v. angry, and asked him why he 'left' him: he told 
Chanji he might have died. Apparently if the Bau [Bhoot] does show 
himself he is of terrifying aspect, but quite harmless.

In Manzil-e-Meem in Bombay queer noises at night of a man in passages - 
someone slapping a stick in the yard - but if one turned on the light 
no-one was there - Baba used to say that 'Bau' [Bhoot] was around at 
such times.

Also some years ago Baba used to be in partial seclusion up the hill, 
occasionally he would say that he must attend a meeting of masters: he 
used to lock himself in his hut, no-one to look in the windows, no-one 
to disturb on any pretext whatever; 10 minutes later he would come out 
and all would be over.

1/11/40 

Because I couldn't get an answer to request for permit to go to Ceylon 
Baba ordered me to go to Poona last Sunday night, and get leave if 
possible for 3 months, or 2, or at least 1 month to go to Ceylon.

After a lot of trouble I managed to get permit to go to Ceylon until 
January 1st 1941; I had to phone Delhi twice to get that result 
through. Baba told me I had to come to Ceylon for various reasons, and 
so no doubt it was only because of his will that permit was given as 
now doctors are being called due to war spreading.

Baba made a few remarks about the war; he said soon Japan, Burma, 
Singapore, Iran, Turkey, will all be involved.

The crisis in West is nearing its climax and the crisis in the East and 
India will begin in January 1941, until middle 1941 when it will begin 
to wane.

Mussolini will eventually be killed violently, Hitler will commit 
suicide; though Hitler, Baba said, is his star villain. Russia is very 
crafty, she helps everyone, and in the end will pinch everything, 
Iran, Afghanistan.

Both Russia and Japan want India, but won't succeed.

India will suffer more than the West, 50% population wiped off, all 
this next year starting.

Britain will be crushed, but won't give in, and won't lose: Germany and 
Italy will be crushed and lose.

England would have been wiped out except for Churchill, he is real 
clever, and if old Chamberlain had been Prime Minister, England would 
have been finished. Churchill, Baba said, has saved England.

To-day we set out for Ceylon, leaving 5:00 pm train, 2nd class, a 
tedious journey but should be interesting, the bus and Elizabeth's car 
have gone ahead by train: I am to drive the bus in Ceylon.

Baba says the army will take Meherabad for the next period, as in last 
war - he says they may have all the buildings and land except the dome 
building and the little hut next to the dome.

Baba is now buying land the other side of Ahmednagar, near the tank 
which supplies Nagar with water on the route to Happy Valley.

The next entry in this diary will probably be in Ceylon, after what 
sort of journey we shall see.

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Jai Beloved Baba!
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