Everyone suggested some light punishment and Baba observed, "Were I to punish Dhake, what would be the difference between me and you? I had picked him up from the dirt but he has again fallen into it!
Still, I will pull him out."
Baba forgave Dhake and embraced him. Then Baba asked every member of the mandali to embrace him. The punishment for his disobedience was forgiveness from the infinite Ocean of Mercy!
Dhake's son Sudhakar was in poor health, so Baba kept him with the Meherabad mandali for treatment. Within a year, he regained his strength and recovered.
Baba gave Nariman and Arnavaz instructions about installing a headstone over Chanji's grave in Srinagar, Kashmir. They went to Srinagar eight months later, in August 1946, to pay their respects and were there when the stone was laid. It had been prepared in Lahore and was taken to Srinagar by Babadas. The simple monument read:
Framroze H. Dadachanji (Chanji) an ardent and a very close disciple of SHRI MEHER BABA of Ahmednagar — Deccan
Everyone left Meherabad for their respective homes on the 26th of December, and Baba occupied himself with seeing to arrangements for his seclusion there. He took the women to an early morning film at Sarosh Cinema on the 28th.
Minoo Kharas, Naize Dubash and her 25-year-old daughter-in-law Rhoda were permitted to see Baba at Meherabad on the 27th and 28th. Rhoda Dubash's story is interesting. Naize Dubash was a devoted lover of Meher Baba, but her family — especially her husband — was antagonistic towards Baba. She used to sneak away to visit Baba whenever she had the opportunity, and she had always taught her children that Meher Baba was God. Rhoda, on the other hand, had no faith in Baba whatsoever. In 1944, she was engaged to marry Naize's son, Adi. When Rhoda found out that he was a Baba lover, she was shocked. But she decided to go through with the wedding because she loved Adi and was sure her love could draw him away from "this Meher Baba person." Meanwhile Minoo Kharas (Adi's cousin) and Adi's mother would constantly talk to her about Baba and, since Rhoda was the prospective daughter-in-law, etiquette demanded that she listen — though she was not interested or impressed.
Rhoda had been a very religious child and somewhat romantic. She had always had a secret wish that when she got married God should bless her wedding in the form of a slight drizzle — a few sprinkles of rain — as a sign of his blessing. Just one day before her wedding in Karachi, on 1 July 1945, she had been hearing so much about Meher Baba's greatness during the last months that she issued a challenge to him: "If you are what they say you are, you will send me heaven's blessings on my wedding day." She promptly forgot all about the ultimatum in the hectic hours preceding the large and lavish ceremony.