Baba had already informed Pendu, Eruch, Kaka, Chhagan and others about his intention to give prasad to 4,000 poor people. The Meherabad mandali were mobilized day and night to find such persons in Ahmednagar District. They issued passes, bought thousands of two-yard pieces of white cloth and Rs.10,000 worth of peanuts. They were to bundle up individual packs of sixteen pounds of peanuts wrapped in a piece of cloth for Baba to give as prasad.
On Sunday, 10 March 1946, Baba went to Khushru Quarters, where he discussed the program with the mandali and Nusserwan Satha, Babadas, Vibhuti, Pandoba, Maruti R. Bhagat, Naval Firodia, Sarosh and others.
Baba instructed: "Sarosh should arrange for transportation — trucks to bring the sacks of peanuts, and buses to carry the poor to and fro. Eruch should oversee the general arrangements; Pendu should distribute the entry passes and look to other matters."
According to his wishes, all preparations were made, and Nusserwan and the other local men assisted the mandali.
At 6:30 on the morning of Saturday, 16 March, Baba, Kaka and Gustadji were driven in a Pontiac by Shankar to Khushru Quarters. Adi Sr. joined them, and they drove to Meherabad, where Don was picked up. Others followed in a bus, including Eruch, Pendu, Anna 104, Vibhuti, Baidul, Nusserwan and Jalbhai. Baba distributed the bundles of prasad to 1,000 poor people of Kolgaon village, and returned at 11:00 A.M. He had lunch at Akbar Press and, in the afternoon, distributed more bundles of prasad to another 1,000 poor people in Jamgaon. The next day, Baba did the same for 2,000 villagers in Mirajgaon village. In all three places, Baba sat in a separate room to distribute the prasad. Baba washed the feet of every person, laid his head on them and then gave his divine gift.
Among the poor were several who were blind, crippled and diseased. All were brought with great care to receive the God-Man's support. "They were close to the Ocean, but they knew nothing of it," Age observed. "They did not know who they were seeing, yet something happened within each, and they felt that the giver was someone great."
After these programs ended, Baba broke his fast, which he had been observing from morning to evening while distributing the prasad.
On Friday, 22 March 1946, Baba went to Meherabad, where he spent the day on the hill with the women.
Later, privately, he informed the men: "Soon I will be disbanding the ashram on the hill and sending all the women back to their homes. This will free me to face the personal danger to me that is to come. The [men] mandali will stay with me, but only a few who will accompany me will be brave enough to face the danger."
Baba returned to Meherabad early in the morning of 13 April and was driven back to Pimpalgaon at 10:00 A.M. Adi Sr. brought lunch that day for Baba from Sarosh and Viloo's, and at 1:00 P.M. he drove Baba to Khushru Quarters. Waiting to meet Baba there was Gadekar and a "new" lover, Bapusaheb Bahirji Shinde. Before returning to Pimpalgaon, Baba again went to Meherabad, accompanied by Adi.
In the first week of April 1946, Jal Kerawalla's letter from Raipur was received, stating that the hut on Angiras Rishi Hill — in which Baba had worked with such intensity — had burnt down in a jungle fire. Hearing the news, Baba smiled, and his smile indicated to those present that the final stage of his work which began there was now complete.
Elizabeth Patterson's mother, who had met Baba in 1932, died in March 1946, and Baba sent Elizabeth this telegram: "Your mother has come to the Divine Universal Mother."