Baba wrote to Minta the same day:
No worldly love can ever take you away from your darling beloved Baba.
Shalimar, Shalimar,
One day this will come to pass
I your driver — you my car.
I your boy — you my lass.
On Thursday, 12 September 1935, Baba came to the kitchen and sent for Mehera and Khorshed.
He asked Mehera, "Would you obey me and wholeheartedly do what I say?"
"Of course, Baba," she said. "I will do so with all my heart, as I have been doing up till now and will forever."
Baba instructed Khorshed to bring a needle.
Taking the needle in his hand, he indicated to Mehera, "Promise me by signing your name in blood on my arm."
After Baba pierced Mehera's right middle finger, she wrote her signature with her blood on his left forearm. Baba ordered her thereafter not to sign her name, as if to seal the agreement. Mehera's complete willingness to obey made Baba very happy.
Piloo Mama Satha at Akbar Press had given Baba a puppy named Chum. Chum was kept at Meherabad and grew into a sturdy, ferocious watchdog. During this seclusion, Baba had the dog brought to be near him and Chum would sit outside the cabin. However, he was so protective that he would not allow anyone near the cabin without barking and growling.
During this period, a cow periodically visited Baba in his place of seclusion. Baba would take a break from his work, stepping outside the cabin to feed chapatis to the cow. Chum was jealous and would chase the cow around the cabin, barking furiously. In spite of this, the cow would not leave until it received something from Baba's hand. Baba was amused by the "circular" interplay of these two, and Age hoped it lightened the burden of his work.
On Saturday, 5 October 1935, Baba composed this poem, which he directed the mandali to read aloud in the evening:
O damn good Meherabad, mandali mahal [palace],
In face of storm or rain or gale,
Attacked by thunder, lightning, hail;
You must not fail, you must not fail!
On 10 October, for the group in England, Baba repeated what he had dictated to the Backetts in August:
And although I see none during seclusion — not even the mandali residing in the colony — the silent communion continues as ever. For there is no separation in Love, and wherever I am, under any condition of seclusion in the remotest corner of the globe, I am always with you, who love me so and are ever so close to me.