Sayyed (driver) drove Kaka and Gustadji in the Ford. Baba had lunch at Akbar Press and then went to Khushru Quarters, before arriving at Meherabad at 8:30 P.M. After discussing matters with the mandali for half an hour, Baba walked up the hill and went into seclusion in the Dome (Tomb). Starting the next day, he began fasting on tea without milk taken two times a day, in the morning and evening. From the 2nd of March, two men mandali, each by turn, were asked to fast for 24 hours with him.
Baba would meet only certain members of the mandali, whom he would call up for work. Kaka, Gustadji and Baidul, however, stayed on the hill with him, attending to his needs during his weeklong seclusion. During the last few days of the seclusion, Baba called Sailor, Pendu, Chhagan and Murli every evening at five o'clock to play cards and asked them to tell funny stories and jokes, also.
Baba broke his fast at midnight between the 6th and 7th of March, with a cup of orange juice.
He remarked, "Hereafter, no more seclusion. I will come out publicly for darshan as often as required."
Baba came down the hill at 9:30 Sunday morning, 7 March, and had a cup of amsul dal and coffee at the mandali's quarters. In the afternoon he ate a bowl of vegetable soup. The next day, Baba went to see a comedy with the mandali at Sarosh Cinema. At 2:30 P.M., after the show was over, most of the mandali returned to Meherabad, while Baba visited Gulmai at Khushru Quarters. He returned to Meherabad in the evening at seven o'clock.
In response to a fervent appeal from his lovers in Sholapur and Barsi, Baba accepted an invitation to visit there to give darshan. He left Meherabad by car on 9 March 1943 at 6:30 A.M. with Gulmai, Adi Sr., Amir and Sarosh in his car. He went to Baba House and sorted out Memo's estate and then stayed at Bindra House in Poona until 4:45 P.M. Kaka and Adi Sr. left with the luggage by the evening train, and Baba, Eruch, Gustadji and Baidul joined them at Dhond, having been driven there by Sarosh. Baba gave darshan to his lovers at the station in Dhond in the quarters of a railway guard who had lovingly made preparations for Baba's arrival. Baba and the group then boarded the train. Jalbhai and Pappa Jessawala had traveled by train to Dhond from Poona to reserve a third–class compartment.