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Baba's Unusual Funeral Instructions
He receives perplexing last rites instructions abroad
172. "Begin the Beguine" in the Samadhi
Jul 15, 2026 · 0 min · 9 segments
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So to continue the story about money being told to sing, begin the beginning.
That's where we disperse, isn't it? That was the first time.
For her it was something very embarrassing.
So we were in this room.
Baba was there.
And Baba is now about to leave for the States, for the world tour.
30 days tour of the world.
There is a book a special issue called, what is the title, 30 days around the world, 30 days around the world in 30 days, around the world in 30 days, something like that.
Very fast tour, very strenuous.
So each time, a little digression, each time that he would leave the headquarters here, Ahmednagar, that is Mehrabad now, Mehrazad, Mehrabad, Naturally, it so happened that I had to be with him.
I had to see to his personal side and all that.
So each time I left the place with him, he would remind me to remember when I dropped my body, see that my body was taken directly to the place, the last resting place, which is now the present tomb, and place it there.
And then, as soon as I dropped my body, We call it drop the body.
As soon as I die, remember to play the record of begin the begin.
It was a refrain all the time.
I said, yes, yes.
And then what happened is that he had said this in 1956 before leaving for the States, the same thing.
I said, yes,
yes.
Then we returned from the tour of the world in 1956.
And then soon after that, on December 2nd, we met with that serious accident, where Baba busted his hip joint.
That is the chair on which he was carried and all that.
That gave me a thought to be very serious about it all.
Luckily, it happened in India.
So to continue the story about money being told to sing, begin the beginning.
That's where we disperse, isn't it? That was the first time.
For her it was something very embarrassing.
So we were in this room.
Baba was there.
And Baba is now about to leave for the States, for the world tour.
30 days tour of the world.
There is a book a special issue called, what is the title, 30 days around the world, 30 days around the world in 30 days, around the world in 30 days, something like that.
Very fast tour, very strenuous.
So each time, a little digression, each time that he would leave the headquarters here, Ahmednagar, that is Mehrabad now, Mehrazad, Mehrabad, Naturally, it so happened that I had to be with him.
I had to see to his personal side and all that.
So each time I left the place with him, he would remind me to remember when I dropped my body, see that my body was taken directly to the place, the last resting place, which is now the present tomb, and place it there.
And then, as soon as I dropped my body, We call it drop the body.
As soon as I die, remember to play the record of begin the begin.
It was a refrain all the time.
I said, yes, yes.
And then what happened is that he had said this in 1956 before leaving for the States, the same thing.
I said, yes,
yes.
Then we returned from the tour of the world in 1956.
And then soon after that, on December 2nd, we met with that serious accident, where Baba busted his hip joint.
That is the chair on which he was carried and all that.
That gave me a thought to be very serious about it all.
Luckily, it happened in India.
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Baba's Unusual Funeral Instructions
He receives perplexing last rites instructions abroad
Awkward Ear-Side Serenade
She has to sing inches from him
First Glimpse of Mehra
He recalls unexpected meeting with Baba's beloved
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