He later confessed to his wife that while washing the figs, he had eaten one without asking Baba. "Baba was sitting in the living room," he told his wife, "but I am now fully convinced that his eyes are everywhere."
Chanji's brother, Naoroji Dadachanji came with his wife, Bachamai, his three daughters, Arnavaz, Roda, and Nargis, and his son, Tehemtan. Baba asked Arnavaz about school and advised her not to study so hard. This was a surprise to Arnavaz who liked school. Naoroji was also taken aback, for he wished his daughter to continue her education. "Baba, Arnavaz is very bright," he objected, "and my eldest child. If she gives up her studies, it will have a bad effect on my other children; they might lose interest in their education."
"Have you no faith in me?" Baba demanded. "Discontinue her schooling for one year and then restart it."
By obeying this simple order, Baba was preparing Arnavaz to serve him.
At this time, a young Parsi relative of the Dadachanjis, sixteen-year-old Nariman Merwan Dadachanji, came for Baba's darshan. He stood silently before Baba with a garland and bouquet of flowers. Baba embraced him without making any remarks. There was no verbal exchange between them. The usual introductions and pleasantries were strangely missing. But the effect of this quiet embrace was that Nariman dedicated himself with full faith to the Master's cause and became an important and staunch devotee.
One person who came to the Talatis' to meet Baba at this time had much to get off her chest. She was 20-year-old Nergiz Kotwal. Ever since Nergiz's husband Savak had had Baba's darshan the year before in Meherabad, he was often away visiting saints. Nergiz naturally felt neglected and blamed Meher Baba. She mistakenly thought that Savak had been influenced by Baba to abandon his family — and, without informing her husband, she came to the Talati's to give "this Baba" a piece of her mind!
Nergiz approached Baba, seething within. "So you are that Meher Baba!" she said sarcastically. With a smile, Baba nodded yes. She then poured out her tale of woe about Savak's indifference, pleading, "What type of devotee is he? Is this how you wish your followers to behave?"
Dictating from his board, Baba spelled out, "I have come to unite, not to divide. Don't worry. Everything will be all right. Even if you leave Savak, he will never leave you."