Can you explain the financial circumstances surrounding Balabuva Satarkar's visit to Shirdi for the Ram Navami festival?

Certainly. At his usual post in Kavthe, Balabuva Satarkar received a fee of 30 rupees for the Ram Navami festival. However, as Chapter 6 explains, the festival was cancelled due to a plague, so he missed this income. When he discussed performing at Shirdi with Dixit, he was told that a fee was not guaranteed. After receiving Baba's permission and performing the entire festival with great love, he was given an honorarium of over 150 rupees. This amount was so significant that it was equivalent to five years' worth of his income from the Kavthe festival, which made him immensely joyful and grateful to Baba.