I beg of my 350 Old Life friends to help me, as a friend in need, by each of them contributing Rs.100 toward this fund, thus making a total of Rs.35,000 ...
I want everyone to understand that this is a special case concerning a New Life companion and the first and the last of its kind for me in this New Life; and also, these 350 friends are not helping Ghani, but are helping me, without the least expectation of any spiritual reward, because in this New Life the question of my being a Spiritual Master does not arise. And also this does not in any way affect Dr. Ghani being my New Life companion.
In Manjri Mafi, Vishnu and Nilu were not drinking water from the newly constructed well on the property, claiming it smelled foul because of the rain, so they brought water for themselves from another well.
Baba rebuked them, "When the women drink this water, why don't you? This is disobedience to my orders and both of you should rub your noses on the ground as punishment."
Kumar happened to be there. Humiliated before him, Vishnu and Nilu did as Baba ordered. Baba then ordered Nilu to fill Kaka's and Vishnu's water pots. Baba was happy to find that Kaka had now recovered from his heart attack and was taking long walks.
After spending two days in Manjri Mafi, on Monday, 13 March 1950, Baba brought the women to Motichur in a rented station wagon. Pendu had left the day before. Baba showed the women his hut and took them around Hardwar, sending them back to Manjri Mafi the same day. By Baba's order, Kumar had brought Vishnu on his motorcycle, and they were sent back also.
Eruch and Baidul had been ordered to search for different ashrams and camps where sadhus assembled, and on Baba's return to Motichur, they reported what they had learned. At five o'clock, on the morning of the 15th, despite continuous rain with thunder and lightning, Baba, accompanied by the men, started out before dawn to contact "the anchorites" of Kankhal and Hardwar. Visiting huts, hermitages, ashrams and virtually every hidden nook of this area, Baba made contact with a number of these souls for eight hours without a break. Exhausted, they returned to Motichur in the late afternoon. They had had only tea that morning, and without any food or drink the four men had to keep pace alongside Baba, as he continually trekked through the mountainous area.