Once she told the women, "Don't address Merog as God, and don't garland him for heaven's sake! He will have pride, his ego will become inflated and he will fall into the pit of arrogance!"
Overhearing her counsel, Baba declared, "But I really am God!"
"You may be God," she conceded, "but you are still my child! After all, I have given you birth!"
"Have you given me birth?" he inquired rhetorically. "It was I who first gave you birth, and then you bore me! I was your mother in the beginning of creation, and now you are my mother!"
"How could you ever have been my mother when you harass me so much?" Memo lamented. "Because of you I cannot show my face anywhere in Poona. Society ridicules me and I have to sit back and put up with it all!"
Baba replied, "But to put up with it all is very good for you!"
Memo scowled and then, referring to the Jessawala family, said, "Merog, do you have any sense? Why did you send for such a happy family? They are from a wealthy background. What will these poor dears' condition be here?"
"Here they will learn what is happiness and what is sorrow!" Baba replied.
During this period, before retiring for the night, Baba would embrace each of the women mandali at nine o'clock. No sooner would Baba begin doing this than Memo would walk off and go to her room. Baba would then have to go there to embrace her.
He would ask, "Why do you leave? I have to come all the way here to say goodnight to you."
Memo replied, "You aren't troubled to embrace others and complain only about coming to embrace me."
As Baba was about to leave after embracing her, Memo would call him back on some pretext. This happened four or five times.
Finally, stepping out, Baba declared to the others, "See how, even though I am God, I serve my mother!"
Memo loved Baba with all her heart and if anyone in Poona said anything derogatory against him in her presence, she would boldly chastise them. Most of the Parsis and Iranis were dead set against Meher Baba, but Memo would tell them, "Merog is my God! Remember you will be destroyed if you speak against him. Bow down at his feet if you have any sense. He is Zoroaster!"