Savak Kotwal was one of them, and Baba directed him, "Keep awake or both of us will fall into trouble!"
Someone asked, "Baba, when will you call us here [to Meherabad] again?"
He replied, "If this body survives after April, I may think of it."
He added, smiling, "With the blessings of saints and Nilu's medicines, I will not drop the body. But for this, Chhagan must give basundi [a sweet dish] to Nilu to keep him hale and hearty!"
In the end, he reminded the program heads: "So, I agree to visit your hometowns. About 25 persons will accompany me. You do not have to pay for their railway fares, but you will have to provide them with simple boarding and lodging facilities.
"Again one more point: The house where I will reside should be in a quiet locality, preferably in a secluded area. When I retire at night there should be absolute calm and no disturbance of any kind outside the house. The Fiery Life is quite a different thing. It has nothing to do with these darshan programs.
"Do not take lightly what I have been saying. This is not merely a divine farce. In the Fiery Life, if the conditions mentioned are not properly followed, it will put me into trouble. So you must try 100 percent to observe these three points."
Those men who had previously asked Baba for permission to leave Meherabad the next morning were allowed to go, but the rest were to stay the next day until Baba himself left for Meherazad.
The schedule for places to be visited during the November and December 1952 and January 1953 mass darshan programs was decided as follows, with those in charge at each place:
18 to 28 November — Hamirpur; Keshav Nigam, Gaya Prasad Khare and others 29 November to 4 December — Delhi; Harjiwan Lal, Was Deo Kain (5 to 20 December at Meherazad) 21 to 25 December — Amraoti; Dr. Deshmukh 25 to 31 December — Nagpur; Sherlekar, Babadas to help Pophali (there and in Saoner) 31 December to 1 January — Saoner (2 to 17 January at Meherazad) 18 to 28 January — West Godavri; Dr. Dhanapathy Rao and Y. Ranga Rao
On Sunday, 9 November 1952, Baba arrived at Meherabad in the morning at about 8, and walked straight to his room. Coming into the hall at 10:00 A.M. he stated:
I had sent forms to a number of people, in which it was mentioned about dedicating to me their money, property, service and life.