On Wednesday, 28 August 1946, from six to nine o'clock in the morning, Baba contacted 1,500 lower-middle-class men and women whom Eruch and Baidul had gathered. Each had been given a ticket with the word PRASAD printed on it, and had been informed to come to the public library in Jubilee Garden on the appointed day. Baba washed their feet, put his head on their feet, and then in another room handed them his love-gift of one rupee each in private. After this poor program, Baba left Saharanpur at ten o'clock, accompanied by Baidul, Kaka and Eruch, and returned to Niranjanpur by the afternoon.
For the next two weeks, until mid-September 1946, Baba remained in strict seclusion. Baidul was sent to gather information about masts in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Multan and elsewhere, and Eruch was sent to Simla to make arrangements there.
At one point, Baba took the women mandali to Hardwar for the mela to see the gathering of thousands of sadhus. They stayed in a hotel for a few days before returning to Niranjanpur.
On 10 September 1946, Baba left Niranjanpur with Mehera, Mani, Meheru and Kitty for the hill resort of Simla. They spent two nights on the way at Ambala, where on the 11th, Baba spontaneously dictated to Eruch:
A time will come when the best of the mandali members will give me up. I shall be made to undergo the lowest of humiliations by a few persons. Three-fourths of the world will then fall at my feet. A mast will beat me and that will be the crisis [causing me] to break my silence. I behave many times eccentrically in order to maintain the body. Otherwise, it tends to "fall off." Previously, I dashed my head against something hard to maintain normal consciousness. Doing this is very impractical now. So I keep the ladies and boys with me. That unlimited bliss tends to draw me to the Infinite. To keep up the body I have to be engaged in sudden activities. A time is fast approaching for my humiliation. Peter, the best of Christ's apostles, gave him up. So will the mandali do the same with me without it being their fault. I will be humiliated more degradingly than Christ. My end will be brought about by a very few persons, out of those few who will be my enemies.
Pendu and Adi Sr. left Meherabad together and arrived in Simla at midday on 12 September. Baba and the group arrived later that afternoon. Everyone stayed at the Royal Hotel, where Baba and the mandali had stayed the previous month. Baba, Kaka and the women occupied the top floor, and Eruch, Pendu and Adi another floor.
Pendu and Adi were given the duty of finding an "ideal boy," and were engaged in this pursuit from morning to evening. They found one suitable candidate, but the man who promised to bring the boy to the hotel failed to turn up. Inevitably, whenever the mandali would bring boys, Baba would send them away after giving them new clothes and prasad. Meanwhile Kaka and Eruch would locate masts in the area whom Baba would contact.
The women would go for a walk with Baba, and occasionally to a movie or play. On the 23rd, Baba, the women and Kaka left for Niranjanpur by private car at 3:00 P.M. Eruch came the next day, and Pendu and Adi were sent to Lahore to discover any masts whom Baidul might have missed. Baidul was instructed to return to Niranjanpur.
For over a year, Bachamai Dadachanji, 48, had been fighting a losing battle with breast cancer and she was now fading fast. A telegram was sent to Baba through Pappa Jessawala at Poona, informing him of her deteriorating condition.
Baba wired back: "My will be done."