The text suggests a link between grinding wheat and stopping an epidemic. Can you explain this seemingly illogical connection based on the events?

The connection between grinding wheat and ending the cholera epidemic is an example of Baba's divine and symbolic actions, which operate beyond conventional logic. Chapter 1 clarifies that the 'wheat was not wheat, but the cholera epidemic.' Baba was not performing a physical act to create a physical cure, but a spiritual one. By grinding the grain, he was metaphorically crushing the disease. By having the 'flour' thrown on the village boundary, he was banishing the sickness from the village. The narrator himself questions this, wondering, 'What is the relation between wheat and disease?' The story illustrates that the effect was real, as the disease began to recede immediately, showing Baba's inconceivable power to coordinate cause and effect in ways others could not understand.