Fazal Shah further proclaimed: "You have the power to destroy and flood the world; no one fully knows the limits of your greatness. You are the Spiritual Authority of the time! If I were to die I would take another body just to be near you!" Fazal Shah then pleaded with Baba to write him as soon as he returned home, and commanded a disciple to write down his address on a slip of paper which he handed to Baba.
Baba and the mandali left Kotah the same night and reached Mathura early in the morning on Sunday, 13 October 1946. They had two hours of sleep on the station platform and then left by train for Kash Gunj. They hired a taxi from there to drive nineteen miles to Etah. Baba contacted two masts, one of whom was known as Nanga Baba . He was a naked mast who was quite indifferent to normal food, but was fond of chewing paan. It was difficult to find him, because he roamed about so much throughout the area, but he was eventually contacted, which made Baba happy.
The other mast in Etah, Shah Saheb , had been hit by a car. The mast had refused to let his leg wound be treated, and now it was infected with maggots. When Baba contacted him, the mast had wrapped the wound with a filthy piece of cloth as a bandage. He sat on a simple string bed, and the Muslim who looked after him rigged up a partition-curtain of sheets so that Baba was able to contact him in private.
Returning to Kash Gunj at night, Baba, Kaka, Adi Sr., Eruch, Pendu and Baidul tried to get some sleep on the station platform, but because there was too much noise, they left for Mathura on the 2:00 A.M. train. Later that morning of the 14th, they reached Mathura, and stayed at a dak bungalow. That afternoon, Pendu and Adi were sent out to look for boys, but failed to find any. Baidul, Eruch and Kaka went with Baba to contact masts. Baba communed with Inayatulla, the great mast-saint of the sixth plane and the chargeman of the area, whom he had contacted twice before.
Baba also communed with Brahmanandji , whom he had worked with eleven months before. Brahmanandji was a fifth-plane mast living on the banks of the Jumna River near a dharamshala. This 35-year-old mast had once been a learned pundit (Vedic scholar) leading a fashionable life, but he was overcome by God and renounced his worldly position.