While Baba was away, an All Faiths Conference was held at the Circle Cinema in Nasik from 3–5 June 1933. Baba had been invited and, although he did not attend, he dictated a message (in Bombay to Feram Workingboxwala) on the 4th, which Ramjoo read out on the last day of the conference:
Unless and until there is complete Realization, which is the goal of all faiths, faith is faith after all, call it blind or call it otherwise. Once God is Realized, there is no question of faith at all, just as there is no question of faith for a man to believe he is a man; because one then, having transcended the boundaries of faith, feels oneself identified with the Infinite and finds the One Self manifested everywhere.
Adi Jr. and Jalbhai arrived in Bombay on the 5th, and Baba saw his mother Memo the same day.
Baba had decided to take Ramjoo's fifteen-year-old son Dadu with him to Europe if a passport for the boy could be procured in time. The passport office agreed to issue one if Meher Baba stood as guarantor, which he did. On 6 June Baba went to the Inspection Bungalow in Bassein with the mandali, including Chanji, Pendu, Vishnu, Sailor, Chhagan, Ramjoo and Dadu, but finding the climate disagreeable, Baba returned to Nasik on the 8th.
Baba went back to Bombay on Saturday, 10 June 1933 to finalize preparations for his upcoming trip to Europe, staying with the Confectioners. As soon as he arrived, Baba asked Chanji if the final booking of their cabins on the ship had been made.
Chanji assured Baba that he had already done so, but Baba kept insisting, "Are you sure everything is all right? Have you personally seen to it?" Chanji again stated he was certain everything was in order, but Baba again demanded, "Make sure; check again that everything is all right."
Chanji felt confident, but because of Baba's repeated urging, he now began to have doubts. But it was a Saturday, the booking office was closed, and there was nothing he could do about it until Monday, the day of their departure.
At 11:30 A.M. on Monday, 12 June 1933, Baba and the mandali went to Mole Station and then to the ship; a large crowd of devotees was awaiting Baba's departure. The moment they boarded, Chanji discovered that Baba's cabin on the more expensive deck had been switched from an outside one that Baba had requested to one on the inside.