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THE SACRED PHOTOGRAPH
Photography was rare in those days.
A European had started a studio in partnership with an Indian in Rajkot. The European had a desire to take a photograph of a saint first as an inauguration.
He, therefore, came to Virpur.
Bapa said, "What, my photograph?
No, no! You can take the photographs of these cows, these pigeons, and these sadhus!" The European folded hos hands and prayed to him to agree to
be photographed. Bapa did not like to make any one unhappy. So
he allowed him to take a photograph. When he was being photographed
one of his eyes winked. This is the only photograph of Bapa
ever taken.
Bapa had a short figure; neither much slim
not much fat. He used to put on a shirt reaching upto the knees, a short Dhoti and
a big turban on his head. Bapa had a birth mark on his left cheek. He used
to carry a staff in one hand and a rosary in the other, Day
and night he muttered the name of God.
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