Memo intervened, " I have called for the fish! Why are you getting so upset with her?"
Baba said, "Mother, you can have fish in Poona, not here! No one can eat meat or fish in my ashram!"
"Who are you to stop me?"
"I am God!"
"You may be God for all, but to me you are my Merog. The doctor has told me to eat fish for my diabetes and you can't stop me from eating it."
As this heated argument was going on between mother and son, two stray cats slipped into the kitchen and made off with the entire fish! When Memo saw this, she wailed, "Merog! Why do you harass me so? You didn't want me to eat it and so this had to happen!"
"Now do you believe that I am God?" Baba asked.
"Maybe for others," she conceded, "but to me you will always be my naughty Merog!"
Baba had a hearty laugh and those present enjoyed the humor of the whole incident.
On 7 April 1939 at eight o'clock in the morning, Baba was driven in Elizabeth's car to Mandla with Chanji, Jal Kerawalla and a follower from Jabalpur named Dube (pronounced DU-bay). For an hour the trip went smoothly, but then the radiator began spewing out water and they stopped the car to let it cool. They were five miles from Mandla and the radiator was leaking so the car would not restart. Baba suggested an unusual solution to their problem. To their wonder, he directed them to read a passage from the Bhagavad Gita out loud before trying to restart the car each time it stalled! Thus they went to Mandla (where Baba held a meeting with some community leaders there and contacted masts), and all the way back to Jabalpur following this same strange ritual.
Baba afterward gave the book to Dube, with these words, "Don't give this Gita to anyone, nor lose it. It is my prasad."
Baba permitted the Zoroastrian thread ceremony of Meherwan and Sam to be performed on Sunday, 9 April. Pappa Jessawala came for the occasion and had the ceremony performed at a local agyari by its resident priest. Masaji prepared a feast for the 200 attendees. The two boys were taken to meet Baba after the ceremony. The priest too wished to meet privately with Baba but Baba, for his own reasons, refused to see him. (Although Baba granted interviews to some of the sincere guests the next day.)