Baba left for Nasik at 12:30 P.M. but it was not a smooth journey. The driver stopped at Kolhar to see his relatives. When he did not return quickly, first Sidhu was sent to call him, and then Raghunath. When they reached Sangamner they wanted to stop for tea, but the driver turned into a narrow lane and the bus got stuck despite the driver's efforts to extricate it. A crowd gathered. Adi Sr. lost his temper, took the wheel, and managed to back up the bus. No one had tea. Twenty-five miles from Nasik they had a flat tire. Another bus on its way to Nasik stopped. In it were some of Raghunath's friends, who he had told of Baba. (One of the other passengers misunderstood and took Kalingad for Meher Baba and fell at Kalingad's feet.) Baba granted them darshan and then decided to proceed on foot while the driver changed the tire. He and the mandali walked four miles before the bus caught up with them. They arrived at Nasik at 7:30 P.M. and Baba went to the women's bungalow for his dinner before retiring again on the upper floor of Gyas Manzil.
This time Baba occupied a seat in a front room, where Jalbhai and the boys were residing. None were allowed upstairs, though Rustom, Sailor, Edke, and a new lover from Nasik named Maneck Ranji waited a long time downstairs. Baba stayed awake until midnight going through the accumulated mail and making general inquiries of what had transpired in his absence. Ghani arrived the same night.
For four days, Baba moved about normally. Adi took Baba to the Pigeon House for his meals, at 11:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M. From noon to 4:00 P.M. on 2 February, Baba painstakingly dictated points to Ramjoo for several upcoming articles in The Meher Message. Pyaroo Qawaal sang that day before Baba.
On the morning of Wednesday, 5 February 1930, Baba
abruptly secluded himself again in the cage-cabin upstairs at Gyas Manzil. At 11:00 A.M. he sent this message:
I shall be in seclusion until my birthday. None of the mandali of Gyas Manzil should come upstairs. Whomever I send for may come for work, but only if they are specially called. No one should approach me for darshan on any account; if any outsider comes, he should be sent back. A strict watch should be maintained downstairs and no one should be permitted to enter the Manzil.