Baba then listed the 40 persons he wished to be present for a week at Meherabad in May to discuss and decide "the future of the one-month meeting in all its adjustments of time, place, food and every other convenience to the best advantage of the signatories in general."
Chanji's life had been so hectic attending to Baba's work that he had not had time to properly arrange all his diaries, notes and letters. He would jot down things and simply collect it all, storing it in his trunk. As stated previously, Eruch and Adi Sr. had been sorting through some of his things while in Bangalore during 1940. After Chanji's death, his trunks were brought to Meherabad from Bombay, and Baba assigned the duty of arranging and putting them in order to Feram Workingboxwala.
For Feram, going through Chanji's letters and notes proved a tedious and tiresome task. For one thing, Chanji's handwriting was at times microscopic; for another, he was in the habit of taking down Baba's explanations on any scrap of paper handy, and would often not date the entries, or he would simply put the day and month with no mention of what year. Feram was able to complete the work, organizing it as best he could in nine months. And thus, Framroze's (Chanji's) legacy was straightened out by Feramroj (Feram)!
After Chanji's demise, Adi Sr. had become Meher Baba's official secretary and was handling the duty of correspondence between the Master and his followers. Feram would assist Adi in keeping the correspondence and accounts organized.
Feram was a simple, innocent, extremely gullible man. He was often the butt of the mandali's jokes, and Pendu and Nilu especially loved to tease him. Feram was also not in good health, suffering from asthma, and Baba instructed Pendu to give him milk every day. Once Feram complained to Nilu, "I don't like the milk Pendu is giving me; it has a peculiar taste."
"That's because he's not giving you buffalo's milk," Nilu joked, "he is giving you horse's milk — to make you as strong as a horse!"
"Really?" asked Feram incredulously. "Can a mare be milked?"
"Of course," said Nilu. There was a tonga kept at Meherabad for bringing provisions from Ahmednagar each day, and the tonga horse had recently given birth. So Feram was convinced that Pendu was indeed giving him mare's milk.
