"But I am always here," declared Baba.
"We don't see you," she said.
"Try to see me. Remember me sincerely always, and be lost in me. When you are lost in me, you will see me. How could you see me when you keep yourself in front, and me behind? Remove your self and you will see me!"
Baba turned to her uncle, Piloo Mama, and spelled out, "Gaze on me as much as you like. The time will come when you will want to see me and I won't be seen. How fortunate you all are that I am among you, relaxing and joking with you. You will know the significance of this afterwards."
A Marwari named Magniram was a regular visitor to Akbar Press. He was quite rich and had once been to Meherabad, where he had Baba's darshan. Highly impressed by Baba, Magniram asked him, "Could I send you some grain as a gift?"
Baba spelled out to him, "I don't want gifts, I want lives! But one willing to sacrifice his life is not to be found."
Remembering Magniram, Baba humorously remarked to Nusserwan, "Now when I want grain [for the one-month meeting], I don't find anyone willing to offer it to me! Look how, today, Shirin takes me to be a thief because I ate her bread!"
Shirin said, "You are no doubt a thief — but we like your kind of thievery."
"You prepare such tasty food, I can't resist pinching it."
"If you stole it every day, I would be more pleased!"
"I will, but if someone catches me and beats me up ... then?"
Thus, after passing his time in this light, relaxing manner with his old lovers, Baba returned to Pop's, where preparations were taken in hand to leave for Hyderabad.
Baba sent Pendu, Baidul and Krishna to Hyderabad in advance, and Baba left on Friday, 9 March 1945 with the other men, the women mandali and the pet dog Toofan. They arrived the next day. Since the Jubilee Hills bungalow was still not ready for occupancy, Pendu and Don had rented another house for the women in nearby Secunderabad for three weeks. The women who accompanied Baba included Mehera, Mani, Meheru, Naja, Walu, Rano, Kitty and Margaret. The rest of the women in Meherabad would be called in groups during the next six months.