Ramjoo also wrote to Minoo Kharas (on 25 January 1955):
Baba and all those who live with or near him remain more or less preoccupied with what Baba calls his "preparation" for breaking his silence. As far as appearances go, Baba is day-by-day withdrawing more and more to himself, reducing all communications to the minimum of gestures in respect to day-to-day routine, without recourse to the alphabet board or to making signs of "writing by fingers" as he used to do throughout the 30 years of his silence.
Living practically with next to no sleep during the nights and subsisting on meager nourishment as an excuse for eating once every 24 hours, Baba still remains very active from morn to even and twice in a day walks more than a mile from one bungalow to another of those staying with him permanently in different groups.
By the beginning of January 1955, Baba looked tired and was a bit weak, but his mood was good. On Sunday, 9 January 1955, he fed 56 poor persons and, in addition, almost 50 girls from an orphanage were given new clothes, and 50 lepers from a leper colony were each given a new shirt. At midnight that same night, according to his instructions, both the men and women mandali loudly shouted God's name when Baba clapped. On the 10th, at 4:00 P.M., Baba broke his fast with rice and dal.
Nilu was permitted to go to Bombay on the 10th and returned after a month.
The orphanage girls were especially fortunate, as Goher described in a letter to Adele Wolkin (dated 13 September 1955):
Children are so easily drawn towards Baba. You should see the number of kids here that rush to greet Baba on the way when he goes to and from the mandali to our house. The shepherd boys and little girls who look after goats, who sit on the roadside under the trees watching their herd graze in the green fields, and other kids, who on their way to school, wait to receive a smile or a loving tap on the back or hand or head [from Baba]. There is a small girls' orphanage of about fifteen or sixteen girls up to twelve years of age. They are the children of soldiers. All these children love Baba so much. As soon as they see Baba from a distance, they rush to the gate and stand with joined hands in reverence.
Meanwhile, two Nepalese boy-servants named Khushal and Kirpal had been brought to Satara from Dehra Dun for work. One morning when they failed to get up on time, Aloba treated them roughly. He had been overseeing the kitchen work for several months, and the boys were working under his direction. The incident was mentioned to Baba, who ordered him not to treat the boys so harshly.
A short time later, when Baba was on his way to Grafton with Aloba and Bhau, he asked Bhau, "What are you thinking?"
Bhau replied, "I was thinking about the way Aloba treats the boys."
Baba suddenly scolded him, "You'd better leave for some other ashram! India is full of ashrams, and if you go to live in one of them, you will be able to lead a virtuous life."
Bhau was greatly taken aback, and Baba explained at length:
With me, no one can live what the world considers a moral life. Here, we are concerned with spirituality, not morals. A spiritual life is not ruled nor bound by any principles. The sanskaras of each one are different, and so the behavior and temperament of everyone are different.
In a virtuous life, evil is suppressed and good surfaces; but the evil is still there. The bad sanskaras remain and have to be worked out, if not in this life then in the next or the one after. In the spiritual life, both good and bad sanskaras express themselves, and both get nullified. A spiritual life leads one toward naturalness, whereas a virtuous life, in the guise of humility, inflates the ego and perpetuates it!