A young boy who happened to be watching was so touched he began reading from a holy book and began to shed tears with each line he read.
Returning to Hardwar again, Baba contacted a mast in the early hours of the morning. After completing his work, Baba and the men returned to Dehra Dun. They arrived on the morning of 15 September 1953, and Baba expressed that he was quite pleased with the entire journey and his mast contacts.
He told Mani to write to Adi Sr. about the trip. She wrote (on the 17th):
Baba has returned from his mast trip within four days. He worked relentlessly, traveling night and day, without sleep and little food. (The last stretch was a 60-hour drive, stopping on the way only for extreme necessities). Baba and the mandali returned completely fagged out and exhausted. But Baba contacted some excellent masts and said his work was very well done, which is of course the main thing.
Adjoining Baba's bungalow in Dehra Dun was a garden of guava trees. Four watchmen had been hired to shoo away the birds at night. The men would shriek and shout, and Baba would complain about the noise, stating that he was much disturbed. One day Baba directed Kumar to tell the watchmen not to make so much noise at night.
Kumar did as instructed, but they laughed derisively and said, "What you say is true. But if we don't do it, the birds will eat all the fruit, and who will make up for the loss? Our boss would fire us and we would be out of work." Returning, Kumar informed Baba, who sent him back with the message that they should be less noisy while frightening away the birds. Kumar went and told them.
The next day, Baba complained that the noise that night had been worse than before. Kumar was exasperated by Baba's complaining. Baba, nevertheless, sent him to the owner of the garden, who got very upset with him for wasting his time. "If I don't tell my servants to make an uproar," the man said, "they will go to sleep and the birds would ruin my garden. But I cannot understand how you could be disturbed by their shouts. It is not possible for their noise to be heard in your bungalow."