While these preparations were being made, Baba was occupied with his mast work. He was on the move in Hyderabad and Secunderabad to find and contact masts, and hence his inner and outer working was in full force.
"I like Hyderabad best," he once remarked. "It is a very great place both spiritually and materially. Its spiritual importance stems from ages past."
One of the prime reasons Baba loved Hyderabad so much was because of the presence of so many masts there.
For the first time in nearly two years, Baba began attending to correspondence. An Australian woman named Clarice Adams was part of the Sufi group there. Formerly, she had been the treasurer of a political party and had led an active social life; but all that was given up when she joined the Sufis and began to meditate. She wrote to Baba, saying she wanted to know how to love him but found it impossible to love someone she had not met, and so wished to come and see him in India.
On 31 May 1951, Baba sent her this reply:
My dear Mrs. Adams, your open-hearted and loving letter was a great joy to me. I do not want you to come to India just now, and although I do not promise, I may one day visit Australia in order to meet all the loving ones there. You should return to all your previous activities; but you should do them all from the New Life viewpoint, dedicating every activity to God.
This was the first time Baba had mentioned that he might visit Australia, which he did five years later.
On 8 June, Adi received this message from Baba to be conveyed to those in India invited for the meetings:
Baba wants you to know that the severe physical and mental strain incurred during his 100-day seclusion has told heavily upon his already impaired state of health. If during the seven-day meeting he feels physically fit, he will carry out his meeting work about the God-determined Step in a cheerful mood. He will nevertheless carry on his meeting work even if his health does not stand up to it, but in that case, you must be prepared to cheerfully face a heavy and depressed atmosphere.
On Sunday, 10 June 1951, Baba fasted without water from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M., and beginning the next day, turned his attention to the preparations for the meetings.