Baba replied, "It is because I am here that you suffer. Do I not suffer and bear it? So also those who are mine should be prepared to suffer."
That evening Baba and all went to see Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times . The following day, during an explanation, Baba stated:
If you see Chanji with your gross eyes, you see his figure — no circle, no colors surrounding him. But if you concentrate and can see him through your subtle eyes, you can see his astral form without color or mark — a faint form, a bit blue or grayish. If, however, you have developed mental consciousness and see him through your mental eye, you see him in the form of a circle with seven colors — all blended together in one. This can only be seen by a Master.
Colors are due to sanskaras created by imagination. Why seven colors? When the first clash between Energy and the Heavens [or Space; Pran and Akash] took place, it created a spark, a circle which had seven colors. All such sparks have seven colors.
None knows that even before the electron, there is one form in the beginning. But what name to give it! The clash of Energy and the Heavens created this first form.
From Nasik, Baba went again to Bombay by train on 11 July, accompanied by Chanji, Sidhu and Mehlu (Rustom's son). In Bombay, Baba saw his close lovers, including Dina's parents Rupamai and Hormusji, Pleader and Savak Kotwal.
After his extensive, extremely taxing journeys, Pleader had returned to Bombay where he was to meet Baba for the first time after many months. Baba instructed both Pleader and Savak Kotwal to search for God-intoxicated masts and mad persons who could be brought to the Rahuri ashram where he intended to work with them.
At one point, Baba handed Savak a mango to eat, and his wife Nergiz looked on in hopes of having a bite. But Baba indicated to Savak to eat the whole fruit and not share it with anyone. This made Nergiz wonder why — but a year later, when their son Adi was born, she remembered the Master's prasad to her husband and knew that it was meant for him to have a son.
While Baba was in Bombay, he visited the residences of the Kotwals, the Dadachanjis, Chanji's sister Mehera at Dadar, and Rustom Dinyar and Kharmen Masi.