The day after Baba arrived, Adi drove him as usual at 8:00 A.M. from Rusi Pop's to the Ice Factory Bungalow. Baba went through the post and telegrams that had arrived while he was away, and met Don, Pendu, Padri and Sarosh. Don showed Baba the cover and some pages of proofs of The Wayfarers , and Baba expressed his pleasure at the work. Baba returned to Rusi Pop's for lunch, and Adi drove him back to the mandali's at 3:00 P.M.
On 24 April, Baba took the women to see two pictures at Sarosh Cinema from 6:00 to 10:00 A.M. The next day, he and the women were driven to Pimpalgaon to inspect the progress of the new house. Baba instructed Sarosh and Mahiboob that the work should be finished by the end of June, without any compromise in the quality.
Deshmukh and his family visited for a few days from the 26th, and Meherjee and Nariman also arrived. Dina Talati arrived on the 29th, and a few days later Gadekar and his family.
Dina presented Baba with her late-husband Naval's ring, and Baba told her, "From now on, you belong solely to me."
Whenever Deshmukh was with Baba during vacations, his constant companion was the typewriter, on which he kept pounding throughout the day. Baba had given Deshmukh points to write about in the form of articles, and he was also compiling the Master's Discourses to be published. Baba dictated titles for each of the articles and also dictated a few new ones. Baba also asked him to assist Norina. She was writing articles, which Deshmukh was to edit, for her book titled Fragments from a Spiritual Diary . And Ghani was still working on the manuscript for God Speaks , which Baba would review.
During the early Kasba Peth toddyshop days in Poona, a sweeper named Bahadur used to come to Merwan Seth. For a few months during the period of Baba's "coming down", according to Baba's instructions, Bahadur gave Baba a bucketful of human waste, which he applied to Baba's body in a room at Buasaheb's. From that time on, Bahadur had begun composing ghazals which he sang to Baba nightly at the Poona Jhopdi. He would also visit Baba occasionally at Meherabad. When Baba returned from the Himalayas, Bahadur suddenly came to see him at the Ice Factory Bungalow in Ahmednagar on 4 May 1948. Bahadur sang a ghazal he had recently composed, and, as prasad, Baba handed him a Marathi book about Baba, a Baba-locket and ten rupees.