Their school holidays being over, Meheru and Naggu, along with Hilla and Najoo Kotwal, left Rishikesh on 9 June. Baba was in Hardwar at the time, and consequently the girls did not have the opportunity to bid him goodbye. Feeling sad about this, they were happy at least to see that Baidul was waiting for them at the Hardwar station, where their train stopped for an hour.
Baidul conveyed their love to Baba, who was nearby, and Baba called the girls to him for a quick embrace before their train left.
On Tuesday, 23 June 1942, Baba went back to Hardwar, this time taking the women and a few of the men, to witness a large festival going on there at the time. Thousands of pilgrims and sadhus from all parts of the country had gathered. The Ganges was flooded, and Baba and the women had to walk across the Laxman Jhula Bridge to get to Hardwar. Special arrangements had been made for the women to watch the festival from the balcony of a bungalow on the banks of the Ganges. They returned to Rishikesh late that night.
On the 24th Baba went to Panipat for three days to contact masts. Of the several whom Baba contacted, all were naked. Two masts were noteworthy. Allah Dia , who was blind and very thin, was a very high mast, who sat near the entrance to the shrine of Qutub Buali Shah Qalander. Another mast was a wild-looking boy, of about nine years of age only, whom Baba contacted and confirmed was a God-intoxicated soul. The boy roamed about Panipat, always naked, covered with mud, and would eat anything given — even mud.
Once, when Baba was returning to Rishikesh from a mast trip, Eruch went to meet him. On the way, Eruch passed through a forested area known as the Abode of Sages , where yogis and rishis live in tiny white huts and meditate on God. In one dilapidated hut, Eruch saw a handsome teenage boy lying down.
Remembering Baba's constant desire to find an "ideal boy," he described the youth to Baba and requested that he at least go to the hut and have a look at this unusual boy. Baba agreed, and went to the boy's hut after crossing the Laxman Jhula Bridge on the way back to their bungalow.
He gestured to Eruch, "First, go ask him what he is doing here."
Eruch talked with the boy alone, who told him, "My parents are in Ambala. I am only 14, but I have always had a great longing for God's darshan. So I left everything and started for the Himalayas in search of Him. I have come here to meditate and see what can be learned."