Relating a final story of faith, Baba spelled out:
Why did Hafiz say what he said?
Once Hafiz's Master [Attar] ordered one of his disciples to go home and kill his child. Hafiz was present and heard the order and began to wonder. But the man to whom the order was given simply thought there must be some good reason for it, so he at once went home, killed the child and brought its body to his Master. All the time Hafiz was having doubts, but he said nothing. Others were thinking the same thing, but they also said nothing.
The Master told Hafiz to take the body of the child far away and bury it deep. Hafiz did so, and according to the Persian custom lit a candle and placed it over the grave. As he looked at the flame of the candle he heard a voice saying, "I have been benefited ... It is for my own good." To his astonishment he saw the form of a child rise out of the candle flame. As Hafiz stared in amazement he saw millions of child forms rising out of the candle flame. Aghast, Hafiz went running back to the Master. On his way, wherever he looked he saw the forms of children until he came and sat near the Master.
The Master then told the father of the child, "Go and bring your child who is at home." The man went at once without stopping to think that he had killed the child, and even Hafiz did not ask questions anymore. The man found his child walking around the house, quite well and happy.
This incident convinced Hafiz of the tremendous powers of the Master and his working, which is always mysterious and cannot be grasped by the intellect, and so misleads people. From that day on, his faith in his Master increased tremendously.
After Hafiz got Realization, he wrote, "I failed my Master; but that man did not fail him, and yet that man was not in his circle and did not gain Realization." And then he wrote, "He is the select one who believes without question and obeys whatever his Master says."
So when I tell you to do something unusual it is always for your own good. If you do anything [on your own] which is out of the ordinary, you are bound by it; but the One Who is beyond good and evil can never get you bound. He uses maya to draw you out of maya. It is as if, when you are having a long beautiful dream, you must have a short shocking dream to wake you up.
Delia said, "Sometimes when I have undesirable thoughts, I think that Baba knows them and I try to stop them by making my mind blank. Even now, if Baba does not break his silence in September, I will not think about it, because some mystery and definite purpose lies behind your every action."
Baba was pleased and gestured, "Yes, you have now understood."
Herbert and Pendu left for Paris on Friday, 21 July 1933. Two days later, Pendu went to Genoa and Herbert went on to London. Baba left Portofino on 24 July and went to Genoa from where he sailed that same day on the Victoria to Bombay.
"For his lovers, separation was exceptionally painful this time," Age related, "as this had been their longest stay with Baba to date. They had been brought much closer to him; and the closer they came, the more acute and painful the separation.