Meherjee Karkaria returned at the end of April, and came to Mussoorie. Another visitor was an American woman from New York City, named Audrey Kargere, who was touring India. Audrey had met Baba in America in 1952. She never saw him again, but informed many persons in New York about him.
Kumar was permitted to stay with the mandali for a number of days. Once he narrated to Baba the story of how he was miraculously released from prison by "Mr. God."
"I promised Mr. God I would follow him if I were released," he said.
Baba held out his hand for Kumar to shake, gesturing, "I am Mr. God; never break your promise!"
Bhau Kalchuri passed the examination for his master's degree and, as ordered by Baba, came to Mussoorie from Nagpur. With him came Dr. Deshmukh.
Baba asked Bhau, "Are you firm in your resolve to stay with me?"
"I am quite firm," Bhau stated. "That is why I have come."
"I am extremely pleased with you. In the darshan programs there were innumerable fishes," he remarked to the mandali, "but only one was caught!"
The next day, Baba called Bhau and asked him, "Are you prepared, on your own responsibility, to do as I order you?"
Bhau said that he was, and Baba continued, "I might ask you to stay here, or might ask you to go from place to place, or ask you to do certain work, certain things. Will you do it willingly?"
"Yes," Bhau replied.
"I might ask you to go to Bombay or to certain places and work with the lepers on my behalf, or go preaching, or go to Badrinath [in the Himalayas] and sit there, or go begging, or go to work as a tongawala, earn money and bring it to me.
"In short, will you do whatever I ask you to do? I might, after a few months, tell you to go stay with your family for some months; I might ask you to go into business or attend to worldly affairs. This means you will have to do anything I dictate, whether you like it or not, but do it because I ask you to do it. If done willingly, then whatever you do will be for me; whether good or bad, you will be doing it for me."
Baba explained that if Bhau did something according to Baba's orders, the responsibility for that action would rest with Baba: "If all my orders are obeyed 100 percent with love, you will be free. But if you let your mind come into the picture, it will cause great confusion. The mind is so treacherous that it is impossible to obey. Obedience must be 100 percent."