After the successful contacts with these two great saintly masts, Baba expressed his relief, indicating, "The burden has been lifted and my work is now completed."
Baba returned to Mount Abu on the evening of Friday, 20 May 1949, where he met the women: Mehera, Mani, Meheru, Walu and Goher — and the other men mandali: Don, Ghani and Anna 104.
Thus, after two and a half months of almost nonstop traveling, Baba's intensive mast work came to a temporary halt. The mandali were utterly exhausted and, indeed, Baba's health too had suffered noticeably. Most of their traveling had been done in crowded buses and third–class trains; and all of these weeks of travel had taken place at the height of the hot summer season in India. One can scarcely imagine the discomforts involved in traveling to remote places on meager or nonexistent rations, hardly any sleep, and in the scorching heat.
On 25 May 1949, Baba dictated this telegram, which he directed Don to send to the mandali at Meherabad and Ahmednagar:
The last two strenuous midsummer mast trips done during my illness have severely told upon my health; but this is not even the shadow of the 1949 personal disaster to come.
None of the mandali had any idea to what Baba was referring, or had any hint of what was to come.
Baba left Mount Abu for Meherazad on Friday, 27 May 1949, with the men and women mandali, reaching Bombay the next day at 9:20 A.M. Adi Sr. and Nariman met them at the train station in Nariman's car, and Sarosh's sister Homai brought her car. The women stayed at Nariman and Arnavaz's apartment Ashiana; and Baba, Baidul, Anna 104, Eruch and Gustadji stayed at Meherjee's home. Don, Chhagan, Ghani and Vishnu departed for Meherabad the same day.
As soon as Baba set foot in Bombay, he went in search of masts to contact, accompanied by Adi Sr., Meherjee, Nariman and Don. One mast, named Bora was found living on Mangalore Street under an awning made of scrapped cardboard boxes and old sacks.
Baba found another mast outside the Khoja cemetery on Sandhurst Road. No one knew this mast's name, because he was never known to speak to anyone. Although he was clothed in torn and filthy garments, he had a noble face and luminous eyes. Baba indicated he was a good mast.
Later that day, Baba communed with the fifth-plane mast Mungsaji Maharaj , whom he had previously contacted at Dhamangaon in 1944. Baba worked with him in his room in Nagin Mahal at Churchgate, a bustling section of Bombay.