Besides these, other masts were daily being brought, and Baba was working with each one.
Baba never explained why he always wished to be alone when he was working with the masts. But once, when Baba was sitting alone with Chatti Baba, after both had been closeted in Baba's room for about two hours, Eruch, who was on watch outside, got up to open the door. Just then, Chatti Baba brushed past him on the way out. Eruch felt a shock, like an electrical current, pass through his body.
Chinna Swami was an interesting mast staying in the Bangalore mast ashram. When he smoked he had the strange habit of often extinguishing his cigarette by putting the burning end in his mouth and chewing on it. Behind one of the mast's huts was an electric pole which was not grounded properly. Everyone would avoid touching it, as it gave an unpleasant shock. But Chinna Swami would actually wrap his hands around the pole and hug it for hours, as if he were enjoying the sensation!
To give another idea of how unconscious masts were of their bodies, Phulwala, the sixth-plane mast, used to suck a piece of lime soaked with hydrogen peroxide, a substance so caustic an ordinary man would not have been able to touch his tongue to it.
A tea stall had been opened in one corner of the mast ashram on 19 February, where the masts could go at any time and drink tea and smoke beedies or cigarettes. A crude hand-painted sign was nailed up, reading "MAST HOTEL . "
The masts apparently were delighted to have a place of their own to congregate. A singer from Ahmednagar had been sent for, and each day Baba would gather the masts in his room to listen to music. Tears of ecstasy would flow from Chatti Baba's eyes, as he sat listening to the music.
Age marveled at the wonderful sight. "The Song of Wine could be heard echoing from these advanced souls on the inner planes. The cadence of this song is quite distinct and beyond human understanding. The masts' lives were burning into pure, unadulterated Wine in Bangalore, as the Beloved's Song was sung from every pore of their beings!"
Meanwhile, on 3 March 1940, Swami Bhabananda was sent back to Sholapur with certain instructions to tell people about Baba. He was ordered to come to Meherabad on the 9th of July.