Age was wonderstruck. "How compassionate was Baba's gesture to Dastur. The Avatar is even willing to allow people to defame him if it can help them!"
Baba held discussions on 13 December 1933 with Padri, Beheram, and Naoroji about building a movie studio at Meherabad, as well as constructing accommodations for housing the Europeans who were to arrive. Baba suggested having the studio at Meherabad, the film processed in Bombay, and the Westerners lodged in Ahmednagar.
Jalbhai arrived in Meherabad from Nasik on the 17th with Babu Kale. That day, Baba and the mandali played a cricket match with a tennis ball, behind the bungalow at lower Meherabad. Also, Baba and the mandali discussed forming a trust with Baba, Norina and Adi Sr. as trustees.
Baba's return provided an occasion for townspeople and villagers to come every day for his darshan. By the 19th, this necessitated putting up a signboard, stating that darshan would only be given on Thursday mornings from 8:00 to 11:00 A.M.
The following day, Piloo Satha and Kaka Chinchorkar came to see Baba. At 3:00 P.M. on the 20th Adi Sr. drove Baba in his Pontiac to a spot in Ahmednagar where an air show was being held. Baba didn't stay long, however. He became upset about something and told Adi to drive him back to Meherabad.
Naval cabled Baba that Munshiji died in Nasik of a heart attack at the age of 57 on the morning of 19 December 1933. Munshi had been one of the first in contact with Baba in Poona when, as a young man, Baba worked in the toddyshop in Kasba Peth. Sayyed Saheb had been close to Munshiji, having worked for him, and it was he who told Munshiji about Meher Baba. Munshiji had great love for the Master.
Baba cabled Naval, "The grand old man has come to me."
Sayyed Saheb was deeply saddened by Munshiji's death, and Baba called him, Naval, Abdulla Jaffer, and Ramjoo from Nasik to Meherabad on the 22nd.
Knowing how Sayyed missed Munshi, Baba consoled him, "Death is like sleep; and as sleep is essential to man, so also is death a necessary part of life. In reality, no one is born and no one dies. This is all a dream. And what worth does a dream have?
"Munshiji has come to me and is happy; so it is not right to feel sad about him. Or is it that you envy Munshiji for his happy state?"