At this time, she was a young girl of fifteen, preoccupied with her school studies. Mehera was also very fond of horses; her father had taught her much about them. But after his death, she had no opportunity to pursue her pleasure of riding horses.
Four years earlier, when she was eleven, a school friend had taken Mehera to meet Babajan, saying that the ancient woman would grant any wish she asked. Babajan inquired of Mehera, "What do you want, my daughter?"
Mehera spontaneously replied, "I wish I had a horse!"
Babajan gazed upward into the sky and muttered, "A beautiful one ... All the world will look at him ... All the world will love him." Babajan's words were usually enigmatic, and Mehera could not understand what she meant.
She forgot all about it, but a few months later, to her amazement her mother suddenly bought her a beautiful white horse.
This is especially significant as the symbol of the last advent of the Avatar for this cycle is a white horse. Hence, although she did not yet realize it, Mehera in her heart wanted Baba alone. Her real wish would soon be granted.
One evening at the hut, Baba told Gulmai's son, Adi, "Keep your actions subject to your obligations.
Your obligation is to devote your mind and heart to me while, at the same time, studying diligently at college. But always remember that the chief duty of your life is to think of me."
Adi asked, "Should I think of you even while studying?"
Baba advised, "When studying, have no thought of me; but when you find the time, devote your entire attention toward me, remembering me in the same way in which you naturally remember those whom you love.
It is the inner contact that matters."
Rather than riding in a tonga, Baba would always prefer walking to his parents' house or to Kasba Peth. A group of men disciples would accompany him on these walks and he would casually converse with them as they strolled through Poona, sometimes giving short discourses or candid spiritual explanations.
Once they passed a thick cactus hedge alongside the road. Baba suddenly turned to Adi and asked, "Are you prepared to do anything I tell you, at any time?" Adi answered he was, and the Master ordered, "Take off your topee and throw it into that hedge." Adi was fond of fine clothes and this was his favorite solar topee.