From the end of August 1937 , correspondence had been exchanged with certain men mandali in India about bringing Mohammed Mast from Meherabad to Cannes. Adi Sr. and Baidul had been cabled to bring him, and their imminent arrival gave Baba's Western lovers the impression that Baba would definitely be staying in Cannes for a considerable length of time.
Baba himself placed great importance on the mast's arrival and remarked, "If Mohammed does not come, I will send everyone back and return to India."
Gabriel Pascal came to Cannes to see Baba on 30 September. Pascal said, "I was surrounded by difficulties on all sides, but since meeting you, I have experienced your inner help and found that my difficulties are slowly disappearing. I feel things have adjusted themselves so that I am now in a position to produce great motion pictures, and it is all due to your inner help." Pascal and Alexander Markey (who also visited the same day) loved Baba and, though they never did produce a film about him as planned, they remained steadfast in their love.
On 7 October 1937, during Donkin's interview with Baba, Baba told him, "Try to be happy — under all conditions. There is nothing but bliss. It is everywhere. Love Divine. Misery exists in the minds of priests who preach heaven and hell. In reality, there is no hell. No God ever created hell. And to hell with the God who creates hell!"
Baba added, "I love all. Love the heart but damned be the mind! It is this mind that creates heaven and hell."
Ghita returned to Cannes on the 7th, and Kitty's younger sister Angela Lambert (who had first met Baba in Harmon in 1931) arrived from London the next day. Ghita had a long talk with Baba on the 8th about the work she had done for him in Italy. Despite trying her best to publicize Baba's name there, as he had instructed, a ban was in force against publishing anything about God, religion or spirituality.
Ghita felt bad about this, but Baba explained, "I like Italy, which has always been a spiritual place, full of spirituality. The present phase is also necessary and indicative of a great spiritual upheaval to come. The burning desire of people to find the Truth, although currently being kept in check, is there all the while, becoming deeper and more intensified with the restrictions on any outer expression. And once it breaks the barriers, the reaction will be tremendous! It will react with all the force that has been pent up!"