Eruch intervened and implored Baba, "Both mother and Manu are miserable here. It is my duty to keep them cheerful. I can no longer stay with you, as I must look after them."
Baba replied, "For Pappa's sake I kept your mother, sister and brother in Bindra House. I want to keep them with me at Meherabad, but Pappa wants them here with him. Now I find that Pappa is not happy. So within a month, Gaimai, Manu and Meherwan should all come and stay with me, leaving Bindra House permanently."
Pappa was taken aback and exclaimed, "What are you saying, Baba? Please forgive my complaints. Do not separate me from my family until I die."
" I am not separating you. You yourself told me you are displeased with them."
"I will keep pleased; forgive me, Baba. Tell them to stay," Pappa pleaded.
"If you remain happy, how will you have an occasion to wield your whip?" Baba asked teasingly.
Pappa burst out laughing and Baba remarked, "Don't use your whip! Live with love."
Baba arrived at Rusi Pop's in Ahmednagar at midnight.
Chhagan's daughter Shakuntala was now studying in Hingne High School in Khurd, outside Poona and was living at a girls' hostel. She was depressed, thinking she could not have Baba's darshan. During this period, she thought of abandoning her studies and returning home to be nearer Baba.
Once Baba was about to leave Poona for Ahmednagar in Adi Sr.'s car.
When he got in, he asked Adi, "Where does Shakuntala study?"
Adi told him and Baba directed him to take that road as they left (even though it was in the opposite direction), and from there to proceed to Ahmednagar. The car stopped at the hostel and Baba sent for Shakuntala.
He spelled out to her, "You were thinking of coming to me, so I have come to you! Now remain happy and pay attention to your studies."
Within a few minutes Baba left for Ahmednagar, and Shakuntala's heart was full of his love.
On Tuesday, 15 June 1948, Baba dictated this private circular about his recent mast tour:
I — whom you accept as the Avatar — was never, during my existing incarnation, placed in such humiliating and helpless circumstances as during my recent mast trip of June 7 in Gujarat.
Sleepless nights, exhausting travel, untold hardships, these are not novel experiences for me and the mandali, who have been on many arduous trips in search of my masts.