They were accommodated at Sailor's, and the next day Baba told Sailor to charge them for providing their room and board. Sailor explained that he never charged such devoted followers as Kaka Baria's family, who had accommodated the mandali on several occasions at their residence in Bombay. Baba said all right, but told Sailor to charge others.
Waman Subnis came from Lonavla on the 19th, and Beheram came the same day from Poona. Also permitted a private interview were a Parsi couple from Bombay, Mr. and Mrs. Manek P. Shroff.
"Love is beyond prayer and devotion," Baba told them. "Love means continuous thought of God — to the extent of forgetting the body and self. Being mad in love is desirable, rather than running after lust. Your sacrifices are great and appreciated, too. You love each other sincerely and also love me."
The same evening, Aga Ali's father Haji Muhammad came to Nasik and promised Baba to send for his son in Persia. Meanwhile, Baba ordered Ramjoo to join Rustom's Chevrolet dealership and workshop, the Sarosh Motor Works in Nasik, and start work there from the 22nd. Waman and the boy Raghunath were also ordered to work there.
Besides these three, the mandali in Nasik with Baba at this time were: Gustadji, Buasaheb, Raosaheb, Karim, Chanji, Chhagan, Vishnu, Dastur, Sidhu, Jalbhai, Beheram and Kaikhushru Boman Yektai (who had joined the mandali a year or so before). Also living with Baba were about a dozen boys, such as Kalingad, Chander, Chhabu, Rajaram, Ramjoo's son Dadu, Dattu Mehendarge, Maruti, Daulat, and Boman's son Beheram. Bhau Cheema and Ramaji Kamble of Arangaon had also been given employment in Nasik.
After a few days, it was decided to send Boman's son to Akbar Press to work and study, and Dadu to Poona.
Gulmai and Daulatmai had been coming to see Baba daily from noon to 4:00 P.M., but on Thursday, 23 January 1930, Baba told them to stop coming from the next day for four or five days, as his seclusion was to become much stricter. He explained:
This is no great kantala [trouble]. None thinks of me and my difficulties under certain changed circumstances. Whenever a change is to be effected, I have to consider everything. No one knows what I may or may not do, and what plans I am preparing. Everyone thinks only of themselves.
The best remedy under the circumstances is simply to obey.