Baba had mentioned taking the women to Taragarh Hill, but later remarked, "To go there is a headache. A palanquin will have to be hired for Nonny [the oldest in the group] as she will not be able to make the steep climb. Besides the expense, I think it will be difficult for all."
Meanwhile Rano and Kitty talked it over among themselves and then approached Baba, suggesting that he drop the idea of going to Taragarh. They explained that he did not have to go to so much trouble and expense just for them, and that it did not matter if they missed seeing the Fort.
Baba reprimanded them, "If you think I am doing this for you, you are mistaken. My work comes first; you are secondary. What care do I have for expenses where my work is concerned? Money, you and everything else are secondary to my work."
Rano and Kitty, though they had meant well, retreated in abashment and realized the truth of Baba's words.
On 16 February 1939, Baba went with Gustadji, Chanji, Kaka, Adi Sr. and Eruch to the Two-and-a-Half Days mosque in the city, said to be the oldest mosque in India. They then climbed the steep Taragarh Hill and visited the famous dargah on top of a well-known saint named Syed-Meeran-Husain. That evening at 7:30, a qawaali program was held at their bungalow for an hour. Baba liked the singer, Azeem Qawaal. Baba took the women to Taragarh two days later, where he showed them many sights of interest and spent one night. (Baba slept with the men and the women stayed in a nearby dak bungalow.)
Baba visited other places in Ajmer with the women, including Ana Sagar Lake, Pushkar Lake, the Hindu temple of Laxmi, a Jain temple, the tomb of Hazrat Miran Syed Hussain, and Chishti's tomb. The caretaker at Chishti's tomb objected to the Western women entering the shrine and prevented them. However, he seemed drawn to Baba and said, "May God bless you." He asked him his name and Baba wrote with his finger in the dust: "Merwan."
Before leaving, Baba contacted a mast near the shrine to whom he gave one rupee. The mast on seeing Baba, ecstatically exclaimed, "Oh look, Shankara [Shiva] is here! Hurry and have Bhagwan's [God's] darshan!"
Nearby was a tomb of a Hindu saint, and Elizabeth asked Baba why the tombs of two great saints were so close to each other.
Baba explained, "Very often a Mohammedan saint will sit where a Hindu saint had been years before, or vice versa,
because this would bring all Mohammedans and Hindus together — a way of showing them that they were all the same."
While at Taragarh on the 18th, referring to the purpose of his visits to different shrines, tombs or dargahs of saints and Perfect Masters, Baba stated:
By my living presence, I clean the tangled atmosphere of the shrines of the dead saints and Sadgurus. This complicated atmosphere is of the thought world.