Finally, her fever came down and by the 6th of May, after six weeks of illness, she showed every sign of recovering. Rano once recollected, "I was so pampered, I didn't miss not being with the others. Perhaps Baba needed someone immobile for 21 days — like spending 40 days in a circle."
After Rano recovered, Baba remarked to her, "I have saved you for my work. Had I not been here when you were sick, you would have died."
On Wednesday, 5 May 1937, Baba gathered the Western men and women and narrated this short tale illustrating obedience:
Once a Master asked his disciple to wake him at 5:00 A.M. by knocking on his door. The disciple kept vigilantly awake all night until 4:55 A.M. He then dozed for ten minutes and awoke at 5:05 A.M.
Meanwhile the milkman who used to come every day at five o'clock, arrived at his usual time and knocked on the door. The Master said, "Open," and the universe was opened to the milkman! But this was ordained, not just chance.
Realization is never a matter of chance. It is such a big thing. It is all chalked out, all planned beforehand.
Before leaving that afternoon, Baba called the Westerners into the living room and asked Tom to play some phonograph records. After listening to a few, Baba indicated he would like to hear a certain Paul Robeson song.
Baba then instructed the group, "As you listen to the music, try to picture me hanging on the cross. Try to visualize it. Don't force it; just try to see it in your mind's eye."
The group tried and most of them ended up in tears. Afterward, Baba asked each what they had felt. Elizabeth said, "Just before you asked us to meditate on this image, I was looking at you lying on the sofa and imagined you with nails through your feet." Baba repeated again that they should meditate on this image as the music continued.
Baba left at four o'clock with Adi Sr. for Rahuri, where there was much work for him to supervise connected with shifting all the inmates of the ashram, masts and mad, to Meherabad.
The Rahuri ashram had been established on land taken on a five-year lease from a Marwari named Laxminarayan. Baba wished to have more land for his use and sent Dhake and Kalemama to arrange this.