After burying Chanji, Baba left Srinagar immediately for Nishat, and instructed Vishnu to inform Adi Sr. and Chanji's family about his demise. Baba dictated this cable:
CHANJI HAS COME TO ME FOREVER. HE HAS JOINED ME ETERNALLY AND NO ONE SHOULD WORRY.
There was no one to take the telegrams from Nishat to Srinagar, but Habibullah was ready to do it, and Vishnu paid him Rs.100 for expenses. When Habibullah gave back the balance of Rs.90 to Vishnu the next day, Baba gestured to him to keep it. Habibullah asked, "Why should I keep so much? The most I want is ten rupees."
But Baba replied, "You have done a very important work of mine. Ninety rupees is nothing before it! Have some clothes made with the amount."
Habibullah accepted it and his heart overflowed with love for Baba. Baba was no longer the "big man from Bombay." From that day on he became the friend of Habibullah's heart.
News of Chanji's death pained Baba's lovers in the East and in the West. He was the one who kept them informed of Baba's current activities. Solely due to Chanji's efforts, many, many people from Bombay had come into Meher Baba's contact. When they learned of his demise, they were deeply saddened. Bachamai, Arnavaz, Nargis and Naoroji were especially grief-stricken. Age wondered, "Who will convey all the details of Baba's life and movements now? Who will keep them drunk with tales of the Beloved's Wine?" But it was all Baba's wish and, for his own reasons, he called his secretary Chanji to him at this time.
A taxi owned by a Sikh was hired and Baba set out on a mast tour with Kaka, Baidul and Habibullah on Monday, 28 August 1944. Rahim Saheb , an elderly well-known mast, whom Baba had contacted before, would wander about the meadows and lanes of the village of Tulamul. When Baba contacted Rahim Saheb on the 28th, the mast gave Baba a piece of an old brush and a chunk of brick.
At another place, Baba, standing under a tree, sent the three others ahead to see a mast. Immediately upon seeing them, the mast began throwing stones, but since they did not leave, he sicced his dogs on them.