Savak, Kaka Baria and Homi brought an old Punjabi mast from Bombay on 20 September 1936, whom they found sitting in a garden opposite V. T. station; Pleader and Chanji brought two mad persons from Bombay on the 27th, along with a Bengali mast and Fakir Bua (Jamaji), whom Baba informed them was mad.
One night at Rahuri, Raosaheb was on duty sitting outside Baba's quarters. Baba had ordered him not to allow anyone to enter, but after some hours Raosaheb left his post momentarily to ease his bladder. Just then, Ghani, who had been away for a few days, came to report his arrival to Baba. Ghani walked into Baba's room, not knowing that Baba was working. He was stunned when he saw Baba's pained expression. Baba began trembling violently for several minutes. Ghani later described, "Baba looked more ghastly than I have ever seen him before."
Baba was furious.
He scolded both Raosaheb and Ghani and explained, "When I was interrupted while I was doing my Universal work, I took the entire shock of it on myself. Otherwise, Ghani would have been killed instantly!"
Around this time, Raosaheb became so ill that on 2 October 1936, Vishnu had to take him to Ahmednagar for treatment. Ghani left the same day for Bombay to purchase construction material. Pleader returned to Rahuri on the 4th accompanied by Kaikobad, with two more inmates. Baba told Pleader that he would be benefited tremendously by the work Baba had assigned him of bringing masts and mad for the Rahuri ashram.
"Do your duty conscientiously," Baba told him. "You will get what you want in this life — conscious experience of God (not like a majzoob) — and it may come at any moment."
Baba also mentioned Tipu Baba, the chargeman of Bombay (whom Baba had met as a young man).
"Tipu Baba is a special case in a 'special' state. Because, although he is on the 6th plane and has the same experience as a Realized soul, he is not yet One with God."
One of the new inmates Pleader had recently brought from Bombay was a genuinely advanced soul named Tukaram L. Chavan. He was known as Mohammed Mast , and became one of Meher Baba's "favorites." Mohammed Mast eventually advanced to the fifth plane, but when he first arrived at Rahuri as a young man in his early twenties, Baba said, he was caught in a dangerous enchanted state between the third and fourth planes.
Kalingad was shifted to Rahuri in mid-October to help Ghani with the tatta matting work of constructing quarters for the inmates and to help supervise the construction of a small cabin for Baba.