As they trekked through the mountainous jungle, the bullock cart slowly came behind them.
Meanwhile down in the valley, although Kaka Shahane and Kalemama were awake in the huts, they did not know that Baba was preparing to leave so soon. They came to know of his departure later when Ali Akbar did not turn up for breakfast. Baba subsequently sent them a written message informing them to join him at Meherabad.
When Baba came out of seclusion on the 26th, he complained of a severe toothache in one of his molars, which only got worse as he walked in the early morning cold. After walking four hours, they reached Wai. They checked in to a dharamshala, where Baba took a bath. But he could not rest and had phonograph records played for an hour. Sadashiv was sent a telegram to come to Wai from Poona in Vithal's bus by three in the afternoon. Raosaheb Pandit was informed that Baba had suddenly left the cave for his own reasons and was proceeding to Meherabad, and that Pandit should lock the cave at once and allow no one to enter it.
Sadashiv arrived with the bus at 2:30; Baba and the group left immediately. They stopped in Poona at a petrol pump in Budhwar Peth, where those of the mandali who were fasting with Baba since the 15th were given milk. Baba was informed that five of the Kasba Peth mandali in seclusion had broken their fast, and that instead of milk as ordered, Sadashiv was drinking buttermilk because he could not digest milk.
Leaving Poona at 5:40 P.M., Baba headed straight toward Meherabad, arriving at nine that night. (Vishnu and Sadashiv remained in Poona.) The journey proved to be tiring and uncomfortable, even though there were only five persons traveling in the bus that could accommodate 20. It was a bumpy ride and there were no cushions for Baba. Pendu was sent to Akbar Press to arrange with Nusserwan to supply milk to Meherabad the following day, as a sufficient amount was not available from Arangaon.
As soon as they arrived in Meherabad, the work for Baba's seclusion was begun. In the former premises of the Meher Ashram (the Water Tank reservoir), there were three halls which Baba directed Buasaheb to partition, providing separate rooms for those who were to be secluded. Those men staying at Meherabad who were already in seclusion were asked to come out for two days.