He then asked for nine buckets of water for a bath.
Dressed in clean clothes, Baba came into the sitting room and asked Sorabji's niece Bapai, "How do I look?"
"Very handsome," she replied.
"Because I get love from all," Baba remarked.
In the afternoon Baba visited Lunsikui a large park where the children of the city come to play cricket and have a snack from one of the many vendors serving different kinds of food. He then visited the port of Navsari. Later that day, Baba had a meeting with everyone in the Desai family. Like so many others in Navsari, Ader Ardeshir Desai had found out about the Master through Sorabji, a distant relative. During Baba's visit, Ader came to Sorabji's house with a young singer named Bachoobhai Jairam Soni, who sang a few bhajans. Bachoobhai was destined to become a lifelong lover of Meher Baba, as was Ader's younger brother Keki.
Baba left Navsari by train the next morning, 2 March 1932, for Bombay, where he arrived at 7:00 P.M. Coincidentally, the group met Homi Vajifdar, an old acquaintance, at the Dadar station. It was a touching scene when Vajifdar (the former cricket star who had stayed in Manzil-e-Meem) met Baba after seven years of separation. Baba once again stayed at Kaka's sister's home. He and the men went for an hour-long walk that night to Carnac Bridge (joining Crawford Market and Frere Road) and around the Bori Bunder area. They returned after having ice cream.
Vajifdar came to Manekji's the next evening with his family and invited Baba to his home. Jamshed Desai also came to pay his respects. Baba went to Vajifdar's home for a dhansak lunch on the 4th, and left Bombay for Nasik with Kaka and Adi Sr. on Sunday, 6 March 1932.
In Nasik, preparations were set in motion for Baba's second trip to the West. Rustom and Chanji alone had accompanied Baba to the West on the first trip, but this time, twelve of the mandali were to accompany him. The men were divided into two groups of six each: One group was to proceed to China; the other, to England and America with Baba. Baba explained to those going to China that he would call them to America when he arrived there.
The six going to China were Gustadji, Jalbhai, Pendu, Raosaheb, Rustom and Vishnu. In his own party, Baba was taking his two other brothers Adi Jr. and Beheram, Adi Sr., Chanji, Ghani and Kaka. (Although Adi Jr. was a minor of seventeen years old, to get him his own passport, Baba instructed him to write on his application that his birth date was 18 September 1912, making him over eighteen — the legal age to travel unaccompanied by an adult.)