Baba now began planning for the upcoming darshan programs in Nagpur and Saoner. Babadas and Vibhuti were sent ahead to see to arrangements there, and later Nilu was sent. Nilu took his bedding roll and mosquito net to Nagpur. Seeing him unpack, Deshmukh's wife Indumati remarked, "Nilu, when you are a man of the Path — why all these comforts?"
Nilu replied, "My good woman, what has spirituality to do with outward comfort? Spirituality is for the inner self; one cannot judge it by outward appearances. Baba has taught us that spirituality has nothing to do with food, clothing or comforts. In truth, though we wear decent clothes, we are naked; though we eat, we are hungry. This is our spirituality!"
Leaving the women mandali in Aurangabad, Baba departed for Manmad on Friday, 10 November 1944, with Adi Sr., Baidul, Gustadji and Jalbhai, leaving Krishna, Vishnu and Venkoba Rao behind. At Manmad, they were joined by Pappa Jessawala, Pandoba, Ghani, Manek Mehta and a schoolteacher of Kurduwadi named Chintamani Vishnu (Bal) Natu, who had heard of Baba's coming from Pandoba. All entrained for Nagpur in the reserved compartment, which Kaka had arranged from Bombay. They reached Nagpur the next morning at ten o'clock. A crowd was gathered on the platform and resounded with shouts of joy and acclamations for Baba as he alighted, beaming.
Deshmukh, Pankhraj, Justice M. Bhavani Shankar Niyogi and Justice W. R. Puranik (both eminent judges of the Nagpur High Court), along with hundreds of others, were at the station to welcome Baba, whom they garlanded profusely.