When Baba was about to leave for his room, Adi said something else and Vishnu slapped him hard. This displeased Baba and he ordered Vishnu to bow at Adi's feet. Vishnu obeyed and both men had to embrace. Baba directed Adi to drive Vishnu to Ahmednagar that day to go to the bazaar (ordinarily Vishnu would cycle). By evening when they returned, they were friends again.
Amina Jaffer was permitted to visit the women mandali on 16 July. On the 22nd, Chanji took Amir Khan to Manmad, from where the boy left for his hometown.
In the P.W.D. bungalow, Baba explained to the women about maya, sanskaras and yoga. On Sunday, 24 July 1938, he spoke about happiness:
Everything that people do in the world is done to obtain happiness. Seeking power is to derive happiness. People strive after money wishing to find happiness through possessions. That is all right when money is used rightly, but it leads to misery and unhappiness when bad use is made of it.
Science also seeks [to promote] happiness — inventions are made for the happiness of others, and can be so, if used rightly. But when used for the wrong purposes, they lead only to greater unhappiness and misery. Take for example airplanes: If they are put to use for war, they bring death and destruction.
So what matters is happiness, since everybody seeks to be happy. When we gain God, permanent happiness is gained. Happiness based on self-forgetfulness alone leads to permanent happiness — to God. When one loses the self in making others happy, one attains real happiness, which is God. All other forms of happiness are fleeting and changeable.
This real happiness must be very strong to enable one to support all the suffering that comes to one, or like that which I have to bear!
Baba and the women had been to see the Walt Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that day and the conversation turned to the subject of animals. Baba indicated it would be a good idea if one of the group conducted an animal hospital at Meherabad.
They discussed this back and forth, and Baba then joked, "When you are all working in the hospital for the poor, I will see how strong you are — smells, blood, awful wounds, fainting, agonies of the dying ..."
After more teasing Baba concluded, "While you have all been listening and talking I was doing Universal work, and yet I was with you."