It isn't enough to feel that Things Are Happening on the inner planes, unless they are going to burst through, like flame smoldering behind a curtain, and demolish the curtain. If I am ready, why can't we start going places; and if I am not, what to do to make me?
Please, Baba, give this your most serious thought. I feel even more strongly about it than I did two years ago, and have done everything I can to be worthy of it.
I know this must seem a frightfully irreverent and grumbling letter, but you know how I mean it. I don't want to be idle; there is too much to do. And above all else, right or wrong, I must always be honest with you and tell you what is in my heart, for I know that this time, in this life, we have met again and are going to travel a long road together.
All my heart's love, forever,
— Garrett
The result of Garrett Fort's isolation was that within a week of writing this letter, he returned to Nasik from northern India. He arrived on Saturday, 13 March 1937, and Baba was displeased that he returned earlier than scheduled. Garrett explained that he was dejected, depressed and exhausted by his travel, claiming he found nothing but poverty, dirt and filth everywhere he visited.
Reprimanding him, Baba spelled out:
Faith never argues! Had you firm faith in me you would not have cared about dust, dirt, mosquitoes, cholera, illness and would not have changed the plan I had prepared for you. You came back before you were due. Had you lasted it out, you would have seen "something," even at the last moment.
If I am all-knowing, I knew what I wanted you to do and instructed accordingly. If I am all-powerful, I knew how I wanted you to go through all this — and laid out my plans accordingly. You do not know my plans and way of working, and hence think in terms of a waste of time and money, et cetera — all in good faith and with good intentions.
India has two divisions: the towns and cities are India's physical body. The scenic spots like the Himalayas and Mount Abu are India's spiritual body. God is not to be found only in peaceful atmospheres and among stones [mountains]. If He is to be found at all, He can be found in every atom of dust and dirt of cities and towns.