As Adi Sr. speculated in his diary:
Baba takes no particular interest in seeing pictures. He only enjoys the comedies. However, his visits to film shows represent two things: recreation for the ladies inside and some symbolic reason of his spiritual work ... It is done with an inner purpose, of which the visits to the cinema are synchronized with external activity on set occasions to fulfill the self-planned tasks spiritually.
On Sunday, 21 December, Baba called a few of the Meherabad mandali to Pimpalgaon regarding certain work, and sent them back after meeting with them. Nariman, who had arrived from Bombay, also came.
Baba brought all the women to Meherabad on the 24th for Christmas and to oversee the preparations being made for observing Mehera's birthday that year. He came down from the hill after sunset and went to meet the mandali in the hall of the Mess Quarters. He asked three boys — Vazir, Raja and Thakia — about their studies and whether they knew the English alphabet. For a joke, Baba asked Feram Workingboxwala what he was studying (as if he too were a schoolboy).
Feram answered, "Nothing in particular."
Baba acted surprised and asked, "Do you know anything about spirituality?"
"I understand a little."
"What is that little ?" Baba asked.
Feram was the nervous type, especially when attention was focused on him. He was nonplussed by Baba's questions and could not reply, but after a few seconds responded, "To always do as Baba says."
Baba happily replied, "It is the only thing to be learned on the spiritual path! This is spirituality from A to Z ! You have put it in a nutshell. That is everything."
Baba added, "I often tell myself to do away with the whole shebang [creation], but just see — I myself am not able to carry out what I tell myself!"
Baba then retired to his room. He came out at eight o'clock the next morning and met the mandali again for half an hour.
Baba then walked around all of lower Meherabad, visiting a new well, the kitchen, dining hall, Nilu's dispensary, Feram and Gustadji's rooms and Kakubai's cottage. Baba then led the mandali towards the village to see the new flour mill, and asked Pendu and Padri about its operation.
On his way back, he stopped at the homeopathic dispensary and asked Padri and Murli, which of them, including Adi Jr., knew the most about homeopathy. Padri replied that Murli alone was fit to treat patients independently.
Baba remarked, "Personally, I have little faith in homeopathy, but if the occasion arose, I would wish to be treated only by you, Padri."