How did the payment Balabuva Satarkar received in Shirdi compare to what he would have earned at Kavthe?

The compensation Balabuva Satarkar received in Shirdi was vastly greater than his usual earnings. Chapter 6 explains that his contracted fee for the cancelled Ram Navami Kirtan at Kavthe was 30 rupees. In contrast, after performing the festival in Shirdi, Sai Baba ensured he received an honorarium of 'more than a hundred and fifty' rupees. The text emphasizes the scale of this generosity by stating that Baba gave him the equivalent of five years' worth of his Kavthe income in that single festival, which filled Balabuva with immense joy and gratitude.