There are two opposing teams. While standing at a designated distance, a player from the first team up tries to knock down the pile by throwing a rubber ball at it. If the thrower's ball misses the tiles, one of the players from the other team tries to catch it; if the thrower's ball hits the tiles, the other team tries to scatter the tiles farther, before the other team has a chance to pile them up again and tag the player re-stacking the pile with the ball.
During a game on Sunday evening, 13 May 1934, Kaka was out of sorts due to Baba's "poking" earlier that day. During the excitement of the game, Kaka pushed Baba, and then did the same to Gustadji a few minutes later. A fight between Kaka and Gustadji ensued.
Baba became very quiet and then said very seriously, "It is better they were both dead than to behave like this in my presence! How dare they do this right in front of me! Their hands and legs should be cut off!"
The men then realized that they had done wrong to fight over such a petty matter.
Baba still stayed at night on Meherabad Hill in the underground crypt-cabin. As he slept in the crypt, Kaka and Masaji would stay in the room above it.
On the night of the 13th, a severe hail storm with lightning, rain and tremendous winds swept through Meherabad. Roofs were blown off, trees were uprooted, and water cans and other small items were carried away into the fields. Some doors were jammed and required the combined strengths of three of the men to open or close them.
Baba was up on the hill at the time of the storm. Kaka, Waman Subnis, Masaji and Chhagan had to hold the pillars of the crypt-cabin firmly, as the roof was about to blow off. Baba came out of the crypt to help, but the force eventually became so great that the tin roof was actually dancing in the wind. The severity of the storm forced them to leave the crypt-cabin. Baba and Kaka sought shelter in the bathing room, while Masaji, Subnis and Chhagan went elsewhere. No one had ever seen such a severe storm in Meherabad, and they thought that the events earlier in the evening during the game of seven tiles had perhaps saved one of them from being seriously injured.
The storm was repeated the following night, but it was much less severe.