I just press the button, and there is light. Similarly, when the Perfect Master presses the button, the spiritual mother will have illumination! Until then, remember, patience is required."
At another time, he used the example of a fetus which has to live inside the mother's womb — as if in captivity — for nine months: "If the child is not given the full cycle of time, he is born prematurely and is often unhealthy."
He then added: "I am also bound. I want to be free. And I also want to make you free."
Baba left Ahmednagar by train on the night of 16 October, and returned to the Manzil at 8:30 the next morning. After reading through the correspondence received during his absence, he wrote on the notice board:
If during the past two days anyone has broken any order of mine, small or large, either knowingly or by mistake, he should admit it to me by eight o'clock tonight.
— Merwan
17 October 1922
Everyone acknowledged some fault to the Master. Although no one was allowed to read anything, unless directed, Ghani admitted he had read a ghazal of Asar Saheb's published in the Urdu newspaper Bashral . For his infringement of the order, Ghani was sent out to buy a book written by Swami Vivekananda.
Two orders that Baba had given were: When called, they were to come immediately, and never to sit on the bare floor. Once when Baba called, they came so quickly, they forgot the second order, and Baba later reprimanded them for not first putting a covering or mat on the floor.
Gustadji informed Baba that in his absence there had been a heated argument between Rustom and Naval Talati. Naval was certain that if a megha rag (rain tune) was properly sung, rain would fall. Rustom, however, was firm in his opinion that without spiritual powers, it was not possible to bring rain. Baba commented:
What Naval says is true. By singing the megha rag, rain is possible and no spiritual power is necessary. It is an acknowledged fact that by rain clouds colliding, rain falls. Sound also travels in waves, and scientists have proven that it takes time for them to travel. The traveling of sound waves can be easily understood if you look at a person washing clothes at a distance. When he strikes the clothes on the stone, the sound does not immediately reach you; he strikes the clothes, but you hear it after a few seconds.
Similarly, in singing the megha rag, when the sound has the required pitch and vibrations it creates waves causing a disturbance in the clouds which results in rain. This is a natural phenomenon; what is there to disbelieve in it?