But the amazing coincidence was that before all this had happened, Baba had one night come in her dream and asked her, "What would you do if a cobra came into your room?"
Mansari had replied, "I would kill it."
In the dream Baba had encouraged her, "Yes, do not be afraid. Kill it; I am with you."
After she killed both snakes, Baba appeared again in her dream and told her, "I am quite pleased with your courage. Now no snakes will bother you."
And truly, henceforth no snake entered Mansari's room. Although far away from Baba, various lovers and disciples had different experiences of his inner guidance.
After the meeting in Mahabaleshwar, Baba made preparations to start on a one-month journey for mast and poor work. He left Mahabaleshwar for Patna on Saturday, 21 October 1950, accompanied by Pendu, Gustadji, Baidul and Eruch. Meanwhile, Mehera, Mani, Meheru, Goher and Naja (for a time) remained in Mahabaleshwar, along with Nilu, Vishnu, Don, Kaka, Murli and Anna 104, to whom Baba had given individual duties.
Adi Sr., Pappa, Beheram and Jalbhai met Baba and his party at Swargate in Poona, where Meherjee and Nariman's cars were waiting, as instructed, to drive Baba to Bombay.
During Baba's whirlwind tour, he traveled by train and bus, as well as on foot, contacting masts, sadhus, saints, needy middle-class families and the poor in Bihar, Bengal, Orissa, Nepal, Madras, Hyderabad and Bombay provinces. The difficult part of the trip was in finding once-prosperous families who had now fallen on hard times. Baba wished to help such families, who, due to adverse circumstances, had become resourceless, but who out of shame and modesty would not express it. They refused to beg, although they were desperately in need of help.
Because of Baba's work with the masts, the poor and such families, it was an especially rigorous journey. But there was a difference in the way the work was done compared to the methods adopted in the Old Life. Now, before giving the recipients his love gift (money collected at the October 16th meeting), Baba would wash their feet and lay his head on their feet, as Eruch read out these lines: