On the early morning of the 26th, Baba and the women left Sakharpa without taking tea, and drove to Chiplun, where a relative of Kalemama had arranged for their breakfast at his house. After taking refreshments, they left, and arrived in Mahabaleshwar at six in the evening, where they checked into the Granville Hotel . The next day Baba took them to the high lookout points of Wilson and Bombay Points and Arthur's Seat.
On Sunday morning, 28 April 1940, they left for Panchgani. There, they stayed in the Buena Vista Hotel . At 4:00 P.M. the women walked with Baba to his cave at Tiger Valley, and sat inside the cave with him for a few minutes.
Savak Kotwal and his family were staying in Panchgani by Baba's orders, and Baba instructed them to go to Meherabad and await his arrival.
Leaving Panchgani on the morning of the 29th, Baba arrived in Ahmednagar at one in the afternoon, where he rested with all at Akbar Press. The Satha and Damania families again met Baba, after a long absence, and felt joyous to be in his presence once more. Chanji had arrived at Meherabad from Bombay earlier the same day and joined them.
After each of the women had taken a bath and eaten lunch, Baba and the group left Ahmednagar and drove to Happy Valley, arriving at six-thirty that evening. The women's group was to remain in the dak bungalow in Happy Valley for four days. The eight men with Baba had to sleep in a tent (meant for three) pitched on the bare ground. As Chanji recorded, their time in Happy Valley proved a most "unhappy" time for them.
One of Meher Baba's earliest disciples, Buasaheb, was living in Poona at the time. On Wednesday, 1 May 1940, he was involved in a fatal pre-dawn accident while riding a motorcycle. He was on his way to his toddy plantations. A car shot out of a side street and struck him; he was thrown over his motorcycle and died instantaneously, on the street, from a brain concussion. He was 48 years old.
Baba came to Khushru Quarters with Don that morning. They were on their way to Meherabad when Sarosh came running with the news, after receiving Adi Jr.'s phone call from Poona. On being told about Buasaheb, Baba showed no emotion and reminded them of what he had stated before leaving Bangalore,
"Before the end of the war, two of my dearest disciples will die, a male and a female or both males.