Baba had a couplet of Ghani's read: "I love most those who keep smiling and feel happy even if their heart is cut to pieces."
Baba had Anna 104 read a passage from the Gita about Arjuna's total surrenderance to Krishna.
At 11:00 A.M. Baba began bathing the poor. Each member of the gathering was instructed to hand over either a lehnga (pajama undergarment) or dhoti for Baba to present to the 50 poor men who had been collected by Anna 104 and Baidul, and brought to Meherabad the previous night. All 50 were fed, given laddoos and clothes and then sent away after Baba washed their feet. Baba then went up the hill, bidding all goodbye.
Thus, after five days of his divine company, those gathered left for their respective places on the 19th. Chanji noted that Baba had been in "his gayest, happiest mood all the time" during the gathering. He wrote: "It was a real treat merely to see [Baba] always with that beaming smile and expression depicting the blissful state always enjoyed [by him], and radiating his divine influence on all."
With their luggage already loaded on buses, all were prepared to leave, when a heavy rain began falling. Baba was seen walking back down the hill drenched, and Murli ran to him with an umbrella. Baba signaled to him to keep at a distance and stood there getting soaked in the downpour. The rain stopped completely after some time, and all left for the railway station and bus stand with acclamations of Meher Baba's Jai! on their lips.
Their departure had been much delayed owing to the sudden rain. One of the bus drivers had not yet come, so Pendu got behind the wheel to drive the bus himself. After he had driven a short distance, the bus slipped off the road due to the mud and slush, and struck a large boulder and went into a ditch. The bus would surely have overturned had it not been for Baba's nazar. All cried out his name and felt that he had saved their lives.
By this time another bus came by, and everyone boarded it and left for the station.
When news of the mishap reached Baba's ears, he remarked, "Pendu has still much work to do, so I had to save him. Even if the bus would have overturned, Pendu would not have been killed. This was not a miracle since I didn't put my mind in it. Miracles happen only when a Sadguru does it consciously.
"I had already warned Pendu twice not to drive the bus, but despite that he insisted and drove it. He would have dropped his body. To save him from that, for the last few days ever since I returned from Panchgani, I started 'pinching' [teasing] and torturing [scolding, abusing] him. Thus avoided the tragedy. I did not stop him from going, because this had to happen. But why did he take the wheel in the first place? I have forbidden him to drive. Did he forget my order?"