No one from outside was allowed to see Baba doing this work; even the mandali were not present at this time. Baba would never touch money except on such rare occasions, and he insisted on absolute privacy as he handed two rupees to each person.
After seven and a half hours, the work was over, and Baba and the mandali returned to their hotel. They had been fasting all day, not even taking water during the day. They broke their fast that evening with a meal at the hotel.
The next day, Friday, 12 October 1945, Baba began contacting the nearly 50 masts whom Baidul had located in Calcutta. Among the most significant contacts was Pir Saheb , a mental conscious old Muslim who was widely respected by the wealthy and influential in Calcutta. This Muslim saint met people only by appointment, and Baba met him at a fixed time and was most pleased to commune with the old sage. Baba also contacted another advanced Muslim, Maula Pir Saheb .
Sufi Saheb was a good mast, who for over 25 years had never been known to sit down. All those years this mast either walked about or stood, and he supposedly even slept standing. When Baba contacted him in Calcutta, he had given up that habit and was found in a tiny room, where he sat all day and seldom moved.
Baba finished the work in Calcutta after two and a half days, and departed for Midnapore on the evening of the 14th. Baba and the five mandali with him arrived in Midnapore at 7:30 at night and immediately set out in search of masts. They found three and one sadhu. Most significant was Brahmachari Mandal, who wandered day and night about the town, and lived off food thrown out of doorways.
The following day, they left Midnapore at half past noon, and arrived in Bishnupur that evening, where Baba contacted a mast called Gangadhar Maharaj and one sadhu called Swami Anand . At 2:30 in the morning, they left for Bankura, where Baba contacted two advanced souls, Ahmad Ali Shah and an old mast named Maulana Bakhsh .
Soon after these contacts, in the middle of the night Baba and the men left in a taxi for Bansi, 120 miles away. They arrived at 7:30 on the morning of 16 October 1945 and had to walk two miles through heavily flooded rice fields to contact a very old saint named Bansi Baba . The saint was well known in the area, and every day hundreds of pilgrims came for his darshan, which was given at fixed times.