Keeping motionless, he looked like a corpse. After they arrived at the station, passengers rushed to enter their compartment. Eruch stood by Baba's "body" with folded hands and a mournful look on his face, and the people thought that someone had recently died. Regretfully, they backed out of the compartment, not wishing to have as a traveling companion a dead body rotting in the heat. They naturally assumed that a Pakistani had been murdered and that his relatives were taking his body somewhere for burial.
The train began moving out of the station and the "corpse" rose from the dead and gestured, "Good trick, wasn't it?"
In truth, Meher Baba was a living corpse; Avatars and Sadgurus are "dead" to the world at all times!
They returned to Calcutta at 7:30 that evening, and began to inquire about checking into a hotel. This was not as simple as it sounds. While returning on the train Baba had stipulated that he wished to have a room at the end of a corridor, and in addition there should be a vacant room between his room and the mandali's. After a long, tiring search they found a hotelkeeper at the Great Eastern Hotel who agreed to these conditions.
They settled in, but at midnight Baba complained of noise coming from a nearby workshop. Chhagan was keeping nightwatch and Baba directed him to tell Eruch to go down and ask the men to stop working, because his elder brother, who was "sick," needed quiet. The workers agreed to stop and Eruch returned.
But in an hour, Baba complained to Eruch, "There's noise coming from the next room. Go see if the manager has broken his promise and allowed someone to stay in it."
Again Eruch went down the five flights of stairs, and indeed the manager had allowed two unexpected late arrivals to occupy the empty room. "After all, you are not paying for it," he reasoned. Baba was displeased but directed Eruch to go tell the couple to make as little noise as possible.
After a few minutes someone knocked on Baba's door. Eruch opened it and found a hotel waiter with ice water. He had mistaken their room for the couple's next door. This too irritated Baba.
He scolded Eruch, "This is the last straw! I cannot bear all this commotion. Couldn't you find one decent hotel in all of Calcutta? We must move to another hotel that is quiet. I cannot work in this atmosphere with these constant disturbances."