His vision had continued to improve. He told Chanji, "Come closer. I can see you very dimly." After that, his sight improved so quickly that within two days he returned to work, to the utter amazement of the doctors.
The search for a suitable bungalow somewhere in Ceylon continued. Baba expressed his wish to return to Bandarawela where he had stayed in January 1933. He liked the Viceroy House there, but the owner's mother had died unexpectedly, and Norina was unable to contact the person.
Meanwhile Chanji was having a difficult time trying to please Baba — seemingly failing every time. He was so distracted that once when he was wearing his glasses, he began frantically looking for them. Kaka saw him and asked what he was looking for. When Chanji told him, Kaka exclaimed, "They're on your nose!"
On 11 November, after breakfast, Norina asked Baba, "Why should everything apparently go wrong when you wish to work in Ceylon? The weather is awful, we cannot find a place to stay, the press interview you gave was not successful. And now some of the local Christians and Buddhists are stirring up things against you."
Baba explained:
I have come here for work, and only work matters to me. What is praise or insult to me? Opposition is a help, not a hindrance in my work. The sun shines daily, shedding light on all. It is not concerned with whether people praise it or speak ill of it. It sheds light equally on those who praise it and those who curse it.
But when the clouds appear, the sun is hidden. Then people long for its light and warmth. When the clouds disperse and the sun shines with full splendor, only then do people know its true value. Were it not for the clouds, people would not appreciate the sun. Thus, opposition is like the clouds — to appreciate the value of the sun's light, clouds are necessary.
Continuing, Baba said:
Can you see how God works? No. Yet whether the atheists believe God does not exist, or whether others worship Him, God keeps on working in His own way. He is unaffected by praise or insult.
Take, for example, the ant. You hardly think of their existence; to you they are absolutely insignificant, yet they have a body, soul and a world of their own. Say you are spiritually ants, and I am spiritually human.