But, instead, I was getting daily for six months only half a flask of it! After six months, when my seclusion was over and I went down the hill to the women's quarters, I inquired why, going against my order, were they sending only half a flask of coffee? They told me they were daily sending one full flask. Then I sent for little Lahu, embraced him and asked him to speak the truth without hiding anything. He confessed that he was drinking half a flask on his way up the hill, giving me the remaining half. Thus, for six months, I was actually only taking one flask of coffee daily and that, too, as the boy's prasad.
Pointing to Kaikhushru Pleader, Baba observed:
You see K. J. Pleader standing by me. I had kept him locked in a room for two and a half years only on milk, with orders to observe silence and not to read or write. It so happened one day that he saw a cobra in his room, hanging over his head from the rafters. Neither could he leave the room nor utter a word. Thus, the cobra was there for a few days. When Sidhu took milk for Pleader, he happened to see it. Returning, he informed the mandali, and one of them killed it.
May God one day make him [Pleader] realize that Baba is the only Reality, the Highest of the High, and all else is illusion.
Referring to his mandali, Baba remarked:
The intimate ones of my mandali are real gems, who have been with me for many years and who are prepared to lay down their very lives at my bidding.
A little distance from here is another room [the cage-room] where I had closeted myself for some weeks when my mandali could not even see my face. When needed, I would instruct them on the alphabet board through a small opening. I wanted to show you this room also, but there is no time now. Now we will go down the hill, where in the meeting I have to tell you certain required things. So one by one go file past the Tomb, and after seeing my resting place, leave for the meeting pandal and gather there.
Baba asked John Bass, who was standing by the doors, to open them. Forming into a queue, the men filed past and looked inside. Some bowed at the threshold of the Avatar's final resting place. Everyone then walked down the hill.