Now I have given you definite instructions. These orders you must obey at all costs. That is why I asked you both, "Will you do it?" And you have both promised. I then gave you the orders and now you must follow them. Don't think that you have come from such a long distance to stay with me and I am telling you to go back. Why think that? I am definitely coming with you. Keep this very clear in your mind. I will now be present with you to help you directly. I have also told you it would be according to your wish. But the fact is that it will also be according to my wish!
Not only you [Deshmukh] but she too must experience my infinite, formless state. Although she might not have the same intense longing as you, still both of you have past connections with me and you both must experience my real state. How do you know that in the past she did not have this longing? She did have it, I know it! It is I who have arranged all this. Now you must carry out my instructions literally.
Baba concluded, "Don't meditate, but have this longing — 'I want to be one with Baba's Infinite Existence!' "
Deshmukh and his wife left Panchgani the following day, Sunday, 10 April 1938. The same day many persons came for Baba's darshan, including Adi Jr. who stayed some time with the mandali. Memo and Jalbhai had been staying with Baba in Panchgani and returned to Poona on the 11th. Kaka and Adi Sr. came on the 15th, and Sarosh, Padri. Ramjoo, and Dattu Mehendarge arrived the same day for a board meeting of the Meher Mandali Maintenance Trust from 10:00 A.M. to noon. Dattu was a former Meher Ashram student. At Baba's request, Sarosh had given him a job, working at Sarosh Cinema. Baba now wished Dattu to remain with him in Panchgani, to help with typing and correspondence. Later Dattu worked at Khushru Quarters as Adi Sr.'s clerk.
In England, Kitty would go to church each year on Easter Sunday. Easter in 1938 fell on 17 April, and Kitty wished to attend services in a church in Panchgani. She told Rano, and Rano said that she did not care whether or not she went to church, but she would accompany Kitty if she liked. Both set out walking to the church that evening, but they found it difficult to locate. When they finally arrived, they found it empty, and as soon as they stepped inside, heavy rain began falling. They waited inside the deserted church for the rain to stop. It ceased after some time, and they walked back to their bungalow, disappointed.