Dr. Nath promised to arrange everything (and procured the camel and cart a week later), but said he did not understand why the purchase of cows should be dropped. If there were any deficit, he would pay the difference by way of bhiksha.
When Baba was instructing Baidul and Babadas to obtain information about masts and saints in Benares, Adi Sr. interjected, "You had said in Meherabad that your mast work was over. What is this new mast phase?"
Baba declared, "You people have short memories. You do not remember and haven't grasped what I've already said in this respect at Belgaum."
Dr. Ghani was asked to find the relevant notes in this respect from his diary and read them out to all: "I might see masts and make you see masts ... saints ... and sadhus."
Baba then stated, explaining:
The mast activity of the Old Life had importance for me exclusively, but hereafter this work will have importance for all of you. I may ask Ghani to massage the limbs of a mast or Vishnu to feed him. Henceforth the work with masts, saints and sadhus will be absolutely different from what it has been in the past. I might make you serve them, or I shall myself serve them in your presence, which was never the case before. I might even humiliate myself in your presence or in the presence of others, in a manner that will be shocking to you all. So I need masts, sadhus and saints for a different kind of work altogether.
In this New Life, I am on an equal footing with you all. If you are ordinary, I am ordinary with you. If you are in any way great or extraordinary, I, too, am great and extraordinary. If you are something, I, too, am something. Therefore, now, in relation to masts, sadhus, yogis and saints, I am on the same footing as you all.
If Baidul does not understand this, he will land me in a mess. For God's sake, do what you are told and give up your old habits!
(Babadas had been instructed by Baba to collect information about masts, and Baidul had begun correcting him about old and new masts. This was Baidul's "old habit" to which Baba was referring.)
On Sunday, 20 November 1949, Baba was in a happy mood and dictated this couplet to Ghani in Urdu:
Our helplessness has today bestowed on us the courage