Baba came that day from Meherabad, and when he arrived, he gently took the woman in his embrace. She became absolutely quiet, and a glow of relief spread over her face. She stared up at Baba, and sighed with a sweet smile. After half an hour, the woman was noticed to be in a deep sleep. But it was the sleep of death. Age was touched and noted, "What peaceful sleep following the joy of meeting her Lord. It was a sleep that freed her from her misery and, by God's touch, gained her emancipation!"
Faredoon Irani of Bombay came to Rahuri one day to see Baba. He was in a disturbed state for he had a quarrel with his business partner and demanded a certain sum to settle the matter. The partner wished to pay him only so much, but Faredoon wanted more.
Faredoon told this to Baba who advised, "Accept whatever he offers."
Faredoon protested that it was unfair to accept partial payment, and he was set on going to court in order to recover the full amount owed.
"Don't get involved in such trouble," Baba warned. "Otherwise, you will repent."
But after returning to Bombay, on the advice of his lawyers Faredoon filed a lawsuit in court with the result that he not only lost the case and did not receive what was first offered, but he was ordered by the judge to pay the other party's expenses as well. Only then did he realize what the consequences were of going against Baba's advice. He did indeed repent for his foolishness.
Baidul was in charge of cooking in the Rahuri ashram and would daily prepare pumpkin, simply because it was inexpensive and easy to cook. Baidul was a very disciplined individual with a firm will. He would get up at 3:00 A.M., and by 5:00 A.M. the day's food was ready. Afterwards, he would occupy himself with bathing the masts and mad and feeding them their food. The other men mandali were fed up with this same unappetizing diet of only pumpkin; yet despite their demands that he serve an assortment of other vegetables, Baidul would not listen.
Ghani could not stand the food anymore. To taunt Baidul, Ghani composed a humorous ghazal titled "Baidulseth Cooks Pumpkin," and gave it to Babu to sing. It had verses, such as:
␞Baidulseth, an absolute bumpkin Every day cooks nothing but pumpkin!