This comprised the Rs.2,000 that were originally intended for Pilamai. Waman then drove them back to Ahmednagar in Adi's car.
Pappa had brought food from Bindra House and Baba was driven seven miles away to a shady spot under some trees, where he and the others enjoyed a picnic lunch.
Baba proceeded to Bombay with Pendu, Eruch, Gustadji, Padri and Adi Sr. Upon their arrival at Ashiana, Ramjoo, Sarosh, Savak Kotwal, and Baba's brothers Adi Jr. and Jalbhai joined them in Bombay to participate in the work. Baidul, as mentioned, had gone in advance and stayed at a hotel.
At one point, Baba conveyed to Ramjoo:
"My work that I have just finished in Hyderabad was most successful and absolutely to my complete satisfaction. That work there, and the mast work I have to now carry out in Bombay, have 100 percent connection with the 100-day seclusion that I plan to enter shortly.
"If the Bombay mast work also proves to be as good as that done in Hyderabad, no power can then thwart the success that I desire to achieve through the 100-day seclusion. If all that is fulfilled, I feel that there will be an end to all the problems."
At Ashiana, Baba washed and bowed down to the feet of two needy Parsi families. He gave each family Rs.361.
During Baba's weeklong stay in Bombay, Nariman and Meherjee were allowed to join him on his mast work. Baba contacted 55 masts in Bombay. The total included several previously contacted masts, and several new masts also. Baba would revisit a few "important masts" often, but would contact them only when they were found to be in a welcoming, pleasant mood. On some occasions, Baba would lay his head only once on the mast's feet; at other times, he would bow down repeatedly, and while doing so give some money to the mast.
The gift of money was a symbol of the contact, and when a mast accepted the rupee coins and uttered some blessing, the contact was understood to be over or completed. An unusual incident occurred with one important mast in his Bombay work. Baba communed with this mast by placing his head on the mast's feet 40 times! And after each time, when Baba raised his head he handed the mast a silver rupee coin.
At one point, Baba conveyed to the men:
"I feel that masts are dead to themselves and to the world. They are totally indifferent to the world — its happiness, sorrow and comforts. They live in God, with God, and for God. They are unaffected by climatic conditions, insufficient food and lack of sleep. They keep healthy despite being regularly deprived of the necessities of life."