Rustom brought Freiny to see Baba at Meherabad on 22 June. She had refused to eat or drink anything in Nasik. She was kept at the Family Quarters, with Nilu and Masaji attending to her. Baba personally spent a few hours a day with her for two days. Rustom returned to Nasik.
On the 26th, Adi Sr. arrived with Dinesh Chordia of Nagpur, her brother and the Deshmukhs. Deshmukh was much improved after his two-month seclusion in a room of his house, and had used the time to write a biography of Baba in Marathi. Dinesh was taken on a tour of Meherabad, and on 1 July Baba took her to meet the women mandali at the P.W.D. bungalow in Ahmednagar.
For many years Sorabji Desai's niece, Mani, had desired to stay permanently with Baba. During Baba's recent stay at Panchgani, the earnest young woman had come twice about this matter. Baba had made her go back home each time, but he instructed her to be prepared to move to Ahmednagar whenever he happened to call her. In June 1938, Baba fulfilled his promise, and accordingly, Mansari (as she was later known) became a permanent member of the women mandali, joining them at the Ahmednagar bungalow on the 15th of June, at the age of 28. Mansari was put in charge of cooking, which she did during the next two months of their stay in Ahmednagar. Naja was still ill and Kitty had been shouldering all the responsibilities in the kitchen single-handedly.
Mansari's connection with Meher Baba was very deep, and she had not been neglected by him all these years. Since the age of five, she had suffered from an incurable skin disease. The best doctors had been called, and she was sent to the finest hospitals in Bombay, but no medicine or treatment worked. When she was eighteen, Kaikobad Dastur, a family friend, had visited Meherabad and taken her with him to meet Baba. Mansari had agreed, even though at the time she was skeptical of her family's faith in Baba. Meeting Baba, however, changed her heart, and she bowed to him weeping.
Kaikobad narrated her sufferings to Baba who remarked to her, "And only because of this you weep so much?"
Mansari replied, "I am not weeping because of my disease, but because of your love!"
Baba consoled her with these instructions, "Don't worry; you will be permanently cured. Take some ash from my dhuni, and every morning before tea, say my name and swallow a pinch of it."
Returning home to Navsari, Mansari followed Baba's exact instructions and in a month she was completely cured.