Huma is mad in your love — a beggar at your feet.
O Upasni Maharaj! Huma entreats you to bestow your divine love on him!
They stayed for a while longer in the cave before descending the hill and returning to Sakori via Nasik. A day later, Merwan Seth and Sadashiv were sent back to Poona.
During 1920, Merwan Seth's individual human consciousness was gradually being reestablished in the gross world. This was a period of intense spiritual concentration — and one of agony as well. Not only did Merwan continue banging his forehead on the stone flooring of his room at Baba House, but he would also at times closet himself in a dark room on the second floor at Behramji's house in a crowded, less affluent area of the city. There he would sit in the dark for days and nights without food or water. He would not allow anyone else inside the room, and when he emerged he would appear exhausted — drenched in perspiration as if having done some arduous labor.
Merwan Seth's consciousness was merged in infinite bliss, but it was his spiritual duty to come down and regain awareness of the gross world. This descent is excruciating, for the God-realized individual's consciousness descends out of formless infinity into the worlds of countless forms and limited states, through the mental and subtle planes into the grossness of the world.
Persons embedded in the material world commonly experience suffering and pain. All beings in the gross world suffer, and Merwan Seth had to become conscious of the grossest aspects of this world in order to function on the same level of human consciousness. To do so, Merwan Seth elicited the help of a Harijan named Bahadur Khan, a lowly "sweeper" employed by the municipality to clean the roads and toilets of human waste.
Merwan Seth went to Behramji's house one afternoon with Bahadur. After removing all his clothes except for a small loincloth, he sat on a footstool. He requested a bucket of excrement from Bahadur.