14-8-46

This morning Mrs. Taleyarkhan told Bhagavan, "Bhagavan,
I have got a letter from Shanta (the Maharani of Baroda). Bhagavan has performed a miracle and she is writing about it. It seems she went out in a car and on the way the car broke down and the driver could do nothing about it. So, it seems, he took the Rani's permission and went to phone for another car. Meanwhile, it seems a striking-looking and mild sadhu ^[?] suddenly appeared on the scene and touched the car and said, `You can go on now.' The driver returned and when he started the engine, the car moved on without any trouble. The Rani thinks it was all Bhagavan's grace. She is writing, expressing regret for her inability to be
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present at the Jubilee." So saying Mrs. T. showed the letter and Bhagavan perused it. He came across "Roman Emperor" in the letter and asked, "Who is the Roman Emperor?" I told Bhagavan that by that they mean our Sarvadhikari, and Mrs. T. added "Yes. We call him that".

Soon afterwards, as directed by Bhagavan, I read out a
long letter from a devotee of Calcutta who was here two or three years ago for five or six days, it seems. In that letter he relates how, after he thought that Bhagavan was not showing him any grace, suddenly on the fifth day of his stay, he got, by no effort of his own, experience of a state in which consciousness of body, world and all, totally left him and he was pure consciousness and nothing else.

Afternoon

The Sarvadhikari, Mr. T.K.D., and Ranganatha Iyer have
all fixed up a programme for the speeches and the music performance on 1-9-46, and they sent me to Bhagavan with it for getting his approval for the same. He declined to give any opinion and said, "Let them fix it up as they like. Don't ask me anything about it." When I pleaded for his approval, he remarked, "Why should they consult me about this now? Did they consult me before deciding to have these speeches and music, that they should consult me now about the time?" Thereupon I said, "True, at Madras, on the suggestion of Mr. Swaminathan and others, they had decided on having all these things. But even now, if Bhagavan does not like all this, we can stop it, what is there?" Thereupon he relented and said, "You may tell them I have no objection. But I must be left off at my usual hours." I at once replied, "Of course, that will be done" and we so ordered the programme that Bhagavan could rise at 4-45 p.m. as usual, after all the speeches, and could come back about 5-00 p.m. to start the music by Musiri.

In the evening, Muruganar brought a few verses
composed by him at our request for the Golden Jubilee.

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Bhagavan at once went through them and made one or two corrections and kept them aside saying, "Tomorrow we shall do the rest, deciding what heading we shall give them."