Discussions arose about going to Calicut, and on the 28th, Norina complained to Baba about the luggage, saying, "How will we accommodate all this baggage in the bus?"
Baba remarked, "Do you want comfort when people are suffering so much in the war? Learn not to complain when anything is bad, and don't be so pleased if it is good."
The next day, while discussing politics with the women, Baba commented:
There are three types of souls — man, saint and God-Man. The saints are higher than men, and the God-Man higher than saints.
Among men, Gandhi is surely one of the greatest today. Some call him a mahatma, and some call him a fool. He has his weaknesses, but he is a great soul. [Gopal Krishna] Gokhale, [Lokmanya] Tilak and Pherozeshah Mehta were the pillars of Indian politics. All three were great, but Tilak was the greatest of them all. In politics, Gandhi was his disciple.
When Baba left Chatti Baba's hut on 29 November, the mast became so agitated he smashed the panes of glass in the door with his fists! When the boy came to clear away the glass, Chatti Baba said, "No, leave it as it is!" Baba returned to see him, and this time when he left, the mast was quite happy. England was being heavily bombed by the Germans at the time, and Baba said that Chatti Baba's outburst, the first of its kind, was related to this.
Chatti Baba's peculiar behavior in Ceylon was not related only to events in Europe but also to events which would transpire nearly 50 years in the future, as the following incident reveals. Krishna continued to attend to Chatti Baba during the day, and to do nightwatch near Baba at night. In Baba's room, Krishna was not permitted to move while Baba was lying down. If Krishna shifted his position even slightly, Baba would say he was disturbed by the sound of Krishna's clothes rubbing together.
Whenever moving into a new bungalow, Baba always selected rooms for each of the mandali and for himself. In Kandy, Chatti Baba's room was a few doors down from Baba's. At midnight one night, the mast began yelling and screaming. He picked up the metal bath buckets and chairs and threw them across the room.