Adi replied, "Baba, if you were to ask me to give him ten slaps, I may give him 12!"
"That's the spirit!" Baba motioned.
"Did you hear what he said, Kaikobad?"
And Kaikobad nodded glumly. Later Baba took him aside, discussed the matter with him sweetly and caressed him, and Kaikobad wept.
Ali Shah was again brought to Hyderabad on 16 June. Baba kept the mast near him for nine days and sent him back on the 25th. This work seemed to coincide with the Allied victory at Okinawa.
Baba indicated that his intensive work with the masts during these years was connected with overseeing the war; but it would be foolish to presuppose that this was all that Baba was doing. The Avatar's work is universal by nature and unimaginable in scope. The axiom of killing two birds with one stone is applicable to the Avatar when multiplied ad infinitum, as one action done by him affects millions of others in creation. No doubt Baba's movements coincided with developments in the war, but moreover his fasts, journeys, and working with the masts all had unseen and unknown consequences, primarily dealing with raising the consciousness of humanity and turning the world toward God.
A few years before, Meherjee Karkaria had been instructed by Baba not to sell his business in Iran, but to continue as he had been doing. Meherjee returned to Iran, according to Baba's advice, and his business was quite prosperous. In 1945 he again visited India and Baba called him to Hyderabad on 23 June.
Baba discussed matters with him, and stated, "Now go back to Iran, close your business down, and move to Bombay. If you don't, Homai [his wife] will die."
That was a sufficient incentive, and Meherjee returned to Persia, sold his business as Baba instructed, and landed in Bombay on 2 November. However, it took a long time for Meherjee to finally wind up all his affairs in Iran, and even after he had settled in India, he still had to go back to Iran on business. Each time he would inform Baba by cable that he was leaving, and each time Baba would give him a fixed date for his return.
Once Meherjee could not find a boat from Bander Abbas to Bombay, and to reach India on the appointed date he sailed by a small fishing vessel. A storm arose during the voyage, and the boat began pitching and rolling from side to side.