The mast sat alone with Baba in Prem Villa for about 20 minutes, and then came rushing out of the room, shouting: "In this jungle there are many thorns!"
The mast was coaxed to sit with Baba again, but after fifteen minutes came out screaming: "A nail has pierced me, and I can't bear the pain!"
Kaka thought the mast was referring to some difficult spiritual work Baba had given him. Mai Bap was taken back to Khuldabad, and Kaka was told to bring him daily for seven days. The mast, however, refused to accompany Kaka the next day, so Baba went to contact him every evening at his abode.
On the 14th, Baba worked for an hour with a mast called Sikander. Baba went out in the car the same day to contact two more masts. Early in the morning of the 17th, he went to Khuldabad to contact Mai Bap and another mast named Vakilwalla . Both masts were amenable to the contact and Baba was pleased.
On 21 February 1944, Baba's brother Adi Jr. and Viloo's younger sister Gulu were married in Poona. Baba sent his blessings from Aurangabad, but did not attend the wedding ceremony. Adi Sr. drove Baba to Toka for the day early in the morning on the 22nd.
As he had done in Bengal, Baba was busy chalking out a plan to distribute grain and clothing to the poor of the area. Eruch and Jalbhai were sent for from Poona to assist in the work. The first program was held on Friday, 25 February 1944, at which Baba distributed two meters of cloth and three seers of millet to each poor person gathered in the Aurangabad Town Hall. From 1:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Baba handed out the prasad continuously to nearly 1200 persons. The grain had been brought in trucks, and had been bundled in two meters of cloth by the mandali. This making of bundles had been going on day and night for some time. The wonderful fact was that these were the days of strict rationing, and millet was unavailable in the market. The millet and cloth had been procured from the government with great difficulty.
There was the additional hardship of collecting needy people. Eruch would ride around town in a tonga, and through a loudspeaker cry out, "Poor brothers! At the Aurangabad Town Hall at 1:00 P.M., on February 25, free jowar [millet] and cloth will be distributed. Oblige us by accepting it."
As Eruch was making this announcement, some disgruntled citizens were heard to acidly remark, "When our breath is about to fade — this distribution comes." Children would follow the tonga and laughingly mimic Eruch's words.
On Friday, 3 March 1944 in Bani Begum Garden at Khuldabad, the second distribution program took place, which Baidul, Kaka, Eruch, Adi Sr. and Jalbhai had arranged.