"The doctors have forbidden her to take anything other than liquids," Panday informed Baba.
"Kanchan is dying anyway, so why let her die of hunger?" Baba replied. "Let her eat and die!"
Accordingly, on his return Panday made Kanchan eat the boiled potatoes. The girl had been reduced to a skeleton; she could not talk, and it took her four hours to eat them. When the doctor came and was informed she had eaten potatoes, he stormed out without examining her. He was sure she would not live for more than a few hours.
But when he came the next morning, Panday found that Kanchan's temperature had come down to 101°. He thought: "If the fever goes away completely, she'll live." In two hours the temperature went down to 95°, and all were anxious about this. Panday was sincerely praying to Baba, and in half an hour her temperature rose to normal.
Amazed, the doctor said, "I do not understand how this happened. I have never seen a case like this before."
Panday said, "This is the effect of the potatoes given by Meher Baba."
Panday went to Pimpalgaon again, and Baba asked, "Has Kanchan died?"
"By your grace, she is alive and well," he said. Baba gave him prasad and motioned to him to leave for home immediately, which he did — more convinced than ever that Meher Baba was the Lord of Lords.
On Saturday, 30 October Adi Sr., Ramjoo, Dhake, Pendu and Manekar came to see Baba at Meherazad at 1:30 P.M. Dhake returned a typewriter lent to him to type Baba's articles, including one titled "Death and Immortality."
Baba instructed Ghani to keep the typed sheets carefully with him, but joked, "Don't look at them. Reading them will be death for you !"
Deshmukh and Bal Natu were also present that day.
At one point Baba asked them to solve a riddle: "Even though I am all-knowing and I am in everything, there is one thing that I do not know. What is it?"
Deshmukh said, "When you, the Omnipotent, Omniscient One, do not know it, how can we human beings possibly know what it is?"
Baba gave this answer: "I do not know where I am not."
In response, Ghani quoted the poet Iqbal:
I am not afraid of hell because I am told, O God, that You are also there.
Just then Baba stopped him and asked everyone to go out.