Baba is the divine that protects them.

Sri M.B. Rege gives us the correct clue as to how to treat Baba. When Baba was in the body, his connection with the body gave a colouring to our notions of his personality. His personality was connected with the particular Baba body and gave the people the idea that he was a Muhammadan personality they were dealing with, with such and such peculiarities and such and such merits, etc.

But when once he left the body, he was no longer to be identified with that body. He had receded into the unknown, the unseen, the beyond, and thereafter had no particularities, no particular merits or demerits. He was merely God. So, Mr. M.B. Rege says, ‘Now, I think of him only as God’. This view of Mr. M.B. Rege is widely prevalent amongst the bhaktas that contacted or do contact Baba.

In the case of those who contact Baba subsequent to his Mahasamadhi, it is only as God that they come to him. They are in distress, and they want reliet. They cry unto him, and they get relief. That is, He is the divine that protects them.

Therefore, it is easy for persons contacting Baba after his Mahasamadhi to deal with him as God. The fame of his deeds, conveyed through innumerable experiences, during his life in the flesh, tends to confirm this idea, for, even during his fleshy life, Baba had said. I am Allah; I am Khandoba, Lakshminarayan, Vittoba, Maruti, etc., and had shown himself in those forms.