Baba left Ajmer on Tuesday, 21 October 1947 and arrived in Baroda at four o'clock the next morning. In Baroda, he worked with a seeker named Narayan and the sixth-plane mast-saint, Badruddin Rafai Shah . When he contacted this saint, Baba gave him his own coat, and even held it for him as Badruddin slipped it on.
But his most interesting contact on the journey was the fifth-plane mast Chambu Shah , whom Baba had previously contacted in September. Baba went to him at his seat in Motiwada, Baroda's red-light district. The mast asked Baba for tea and cigarettes, which were immediately given to him. He then wanted a shirt and lungi (long skirt-like cloth) to wear. When these were brought and handed to him, Chambu Shah took off all his clothes and presented them to Baba to wear. Chambu Shah then told Baba, "Come back tomorrow morning at five." Baba actually wore the mast's clothing sometime later that same day.
On the morning of the 23rd, promptly at five o'clock, Baba, with Eruch, Baidul and Gustadji, returned to the mast. Chambu Shah was inside his house with the door locked. The mandali knocked on the door, and Chambu Shah shouted out the window for them to wait on the verandah. They waited for more than an hour, Eruch and Baidul repeatedly reminding the mast, "You called us at 5:00 A.M. and it is now well past that hour!" At last the mast was persuaded to open the door and Baba entered his abode and sat with him for a while alone. But no sooner was the work concluded than Chambu Shah told Baba to come again at two o'clock in the afternoon. This Baba did and contacted him as before.
The episode, however, did not end here. Chambu Shah again requested that Baba come the next morning at 5:00 A.M. The mast's behavior was quite extraordinary. In most instances, masts usually struggled to avoid contact with Meher Baba, but this strange mast kept inviting him back!
On Friday, 24 October 1947, Baba again went to see Chambu Shah at 5:00 A.M. After this contact the mast again requested Baba to be at his house at 2:00 P.M. When the afternoon session was finished, Chambu Shah told Baba to return the next morning again at five and bring a long bandi jacket and another coat for him. The jacket was purchased and Baba borrowed one of the mandali's coats and presented these to Chambu Shah the next morning.
