Baba was fully occupied with his mast work in Ranchi, working primarily with Chatti Baba and Karim Baba. Occasionally, Baba would drop a few hints of how his work with them was related to the war. Once when Chatti Baba was out of sorts, Baba sent Krishna to ask him what was the matter. The mast kept quiet and only after Krishna had asked a number of times did Chatti reply, "How will you ever understand this great thing?"
Although Baidul would work wholeheartedly and very hard in the mast work, his mind would at times trouble him. He could not accept Mohammed as a saint or wali , thinking him to be mad for playing with dirt or digging with his fingers in dirt. A few days before, on 6 July, it began raining heavily. Baidul tried to dissuade Mohammed from playing in the dirt (or deesh as he called it), and to come in out of the rain to protect his health. Baidul was rather harsh with him and Mohammed started crying. Baba happened to come by when Baidul was threatening Mohammed and forcefully pulling him out of the mud and rain. It was this incident that caused Baba to give a long explanation about the condition of these masts and the undesirability of using any force on them.
You have no idea how these masts feel in this changed environment. All the care we bestow — the food and clothing we give — is no obligation to them at all, for they do not need it; rather they resent it. In allowing us an opportunity to serve, they are, on the contrary, obliging us. Otherwise, it is a binding to those accustomed to live freely and happily according to their own peculiar whims and methods. To distract them from a particular thing in which they are interested is a torture to them, for they find relief even in staying in their squalor and playing with dirt and filth.
A mast such as Karim Baba gulping five and six coins at a time and passing them out in his stools, and again gulping them down is an example of this. It is his method. If you try to stop it, even with the best of motives to keep him clean and out of the dirt, and he gets enraged, you could be doomed for life, because the wrath of masts and saints is very dangerous.