"I want to stay," said Savak, "but what will my friend think of me?"
"That means you think first of your friend and not of me! If you go to the station when I want you to be here — what will I think of you?"
"Forgive me, Baba; you are right."
Baba then told him, "Just remember one thing: Think only of my will and don't think of pleasing others. If you keep my will and, if in doing so, the whole world turns against you, you should learn to ignore it.
"The whole world is within me. Everything will be all right if you only think of my wish. Whatever your friend had to earn, he has earned it by seeing me briefly. There is nothing for him to think now."
The formal engagement ceremony between Nariman and Arnavaz Dadachanji was held before Baba in Prospect Lodge on Monday, 21 December 1942. Both families were present, and Baba himself put a gold ring on Nariman's finger and one on Arnavaz's, uniting them in his love. They garlanded Baba together.
After 1939, Baba had stopped staying at Arnavaz's parents Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji's house in Bombay, although he would pass through Bombay occasionally. In the past, when he was staying with the Dadachanjis, he would always sleep in a particular room and he had told Naoroji to keep it for him. From then on, Bachamai kept an oil lamp burning there throughout the day and night.
When in Lonavla, Bachamai asked Baba, "When will you come to Bombay again?"
Baba replied, "When Arnavaz and Nariman have their own house there, I will come and stay with them."
Later it will be seen how this came to pass.
The Dadachanjis left Lonavla, except for Arnavaz, who stayed on with the women mandali.
Baba returned to Meherabad with all the men and women mandali on 22 December 1942, and arrangements began for the meeting on the 27th. Pendu and Padri were put in charge of the preparations, and instructions were sent to those men invited.
On his return, Baba absorbed himself in his mast work. Mohammed Mast and Uderman Mastan were staying in Meherabad. They had been shifted from the Family Quarters to the mast ashram on the hill five days prior to Baba's arrival. In addition to these two, Kaka and Baidul would bring masts from other areas, whom Baba would bathe, feed, and sit with for his work.