This is the last explanation, and no more of this stuff until we leave this place on November 20.
Baba then joined Gustadji in sweeping the men's hut. Gustadji had to keep it clean, sweeping it a few times a day. Since reaching Belgaum, Baba had immediately embarked on sweeping, cleaning pots, offering help in the kitchen, working like a laborer carrying things on his head, and giving a helping hand to one and all with their chores. Besides this, there were daily music programs with Baba playing the dholak, Adi singing and accompanying himself on the harmonium, and Nilu joining in with finger-cymbals.
After tea in the afternoon, Baba again drew attention to the fact that the period of training was dependent on mutual help:
"Since I have been trying to help you, you should also help me. This is why I said you should remind me as soon as you see me getting angry. The greatest help to me will be to do willingly and unhesitatingly anything, even to my person, when I give the order.
"For example, if I were to put my head on anyone's feet, he should allow it willingly. If I order anyone to kick me, he should do it without feeling the least about it. This is what I mean by your help to me."
Previously, in early September 1949, Baba had instructed Keki Desai to find a suitable place for his headquarters, either near Dehra Dun, Roorkee, Hardwar or Rishikesh, specifying that the place had to have a small house on it and a well, and be about five to six miles from the main town. Keki asked if he could select a place near Dehra Dun, as he already knew several people there, and Baba agreed. Keki was warned not to tell anyone, not even his wife, Dhun, about this work. He was permitted to take Keki Nalavala's help, but not even Nalavala's family was to know that Baba intended to settle in the north of India in the coming months.
Keki Desai returned to Dehra Dun and contacted a friend of his named Balakram, asking for his help in locating a property, but without mentioning Baba's name. Together, they and Nalavala set out in a tonga to look at different sites. Traveling through the rural, sparsely populated area, they came to the village of Manjri Mafi, where Balakram knew someone he thought could help.