The school, based on spiritual ideals, was run by two dedicated, selfless individuals. At the invitation of its principal, Topkhane, Baba left Panchgani on Saturday, 12 April 1930 for a three-day visit to Kolhapur. They arrived at 9:00 P.M. and were taken outside the city to the Tapovan, where they were accommodated.
Baba was up early the next morning, by 5:00 A.M. to visit the boys during their prayers. At 8:00 A.M. he played a game of cricket with them, and at nine had tea. The boys flocked around Baba and each asked Jalbhai for a photo-ring of Baba and a photograph. Chanji wrote, "It seemed as if the long-forgotten Meherashram atmosphere was revived again."
At ten o'clock Baba was accorded a grand reception by the faculty and students in the school, who all had labored to receive the Master with full homage.
One young student had worked so hard that he had fallen ill from exhaustion. When Baba had first arrived and came to know of this, he asked to be taken to meet the devoted lad before anyone else. The boy had a high fever, but was thrilled at seeing the Master and in all humility said, "If you are a real Baba [a true Sadguru], I will be well by tomorrow to work in your service." The next day, the boy felt well enough to attend the programs. Baba specified that the boy sit beside him and paid special attention to him.
Baba gave a discourse on meditation and the purpose of creation, which Vishnu related in Marathi. Baba urged the boys to meditate for fifteen minutes a day, explaining in a simple way exactly how to do this:
Early in the morning, after your ablutions, sit alone in a secluded corner, and begin thinking: God is One. God is everywhere. God is in everything. God is beyond everything.
These four thoughts should be uppermost in your mind for five minutes. Other thoughts will come, but you should concentrate your mind only on these four thoughts. And no dozing! If you feel like dozing, wash your face and start again.
Then for ten minutes, silently repeat Om with each breath, inhaling and exhaling, without opening your mouth.
None has any idea of what real meditation means and its advantages. It brings forth all the wonderful powers latent in the mind. The mind's powers are really wonderful, but none knows it.