They went to Laxminarayan's home on 14 April 1937, but he refused to lease more of his property or sell the entire property outright for any amount. He was not in need of money, he said, and the mango orchards had been in his family for generations. (The owner already thought he was being paid less than a fair rental price and was generally uncooperative towards the needs of the ashram.)
Laxminarayan was living on his farm next to the ashram. He irrigated it with well water drawn in a large leather-skin bag pulled by a pair of bullocks. One of the bullocks had a wound on its back, which had become septic and was not healing. Baba noticed the injury to the animal and suggested to the Marwari several times not to work the beast so hard and to take it to the veterinary hospital for treatment. The Marwari promised to do this, but did nothing.
Baba instructed Kalemama and Dhake, when they met Laxminarayan, to prevail upon him and remind him that mercy was the fundamental principle of the Hindu religion. He should have mercy on the animal and get it treated, or purchase another bullock. Dhake and Kalemama tried to persuade him at length, but the man would not agree and countered, "I simply cannot afford to spend Rs.200 to buy another bullock just to satisfy your humanitarian instincts!" and he asked the mandali not to meddle in his affairs.
Some days later, the Marwari came to Baba. He had no children and requested Baba to grant him the boon of a son.
“”Baba promised, "You will surely get a strong and handsome son."
The mandali now thought, since Baba blessed him, that the Marwari would give the bullock a rest, but they found out that he did not.
As stated, Baba wished to extend the Rahuri ashram and needed more land for the purpose. Because the Marwari had refused to lease or sell more land, Baba ordered the Rahuri ashram dismantled. All the furnishings and material from the temporary structures began being moved to Meherabad from 19 April, and even the brick Rahuri Cabin was also taken apart and reassembled at Meherabad. (Curiously, it began raining unseasonably on the 18th as Pendu began the disassembly of the structures, and the mandali recalled that it had also rained at Meherabad and Toka on the days those ashrams were disassembled.)
