Returning to Aurangabad after completing his work, Baba informed the mandali he now wanted to help 100 families who were poor, but too proud to beg. He directed them to find such families in the towns of Narayangaon, Ale, Rajuri and Junnar (which were situated between Ahmednagar and Poona). He fixed the 7th of May for the program.
From Aurangabad, Baba issued a circular to his lovers on 13 March 1944, informing them of the latest developments in his plans. The Iran question still remained unsolved, as the difficulty of obtaining passports had not yet been resolved. Due to food rationing regulations, no more than 50 persons could be fed at any one time at any particular place. This rendered Baba's plans for accommodating the 200 signatories with him at Meherabad for a month impossible. To sort out all these difficulties, Baba called a meeting of 24 of the mandali and representatives of different groups, to be held in June at Ahmednagar.
Baba ended the circular by stating:
Those who have been already ordered to observe the seven days' fast should remain on special fast without water on the 15th of May 1944, for 24 hours, commencing at 8:00 A.M. on that day. Thereafter, the seven days' fast as already ordered may be observed on the date as may be indicated to them in the final circular, which will be dispatched to all after the special meeting on the 10th and 11th of June.
All the difficulties mentioned in this circular are REAL in the gross sense and from the worldly, practical point of view, and are as such FACTS without flaw . And yet I, being what I am, and considered as all-knowing, all-powerful, who knows everything and knew all, could have arranged everything as I [would have] wanted. This therefore leads to the natural conclusion, and conveys the only meaning, that I myself created these difficulties and situations for a further postponement, which has a precise purpose and definite and predestined reasons behind it, which the fortunate ones alone will soon know.
That is why in my last circular, I said: "The doubting ones, the impatient ones and the disappointed ones need not hesitate to back out, since that would not be considered by me as their weakness, but will simply be taken as their unpreparedness for falling in with the appointed spiritual time, and they will all the same be blessed by me as ever."