In Khuldabad, Chhagan cooked and Baidul prepared the tea. Both were at constant loggerheads, but they fought only in the kitchen and their dispute was not broadcast. Chhagan was an excellent cook, and Baidul only mediocre. The cause of the strife was that Baidul would try to make suggestions to Chhagan about his cooking.
Bhau had to do Baba's personal work. He and Kumar washed Baba's clothes. Bhau and Eruch helped Baba with his morning wash, after which, while the other mandali members had their tea, Bhau cleaned out Baba's commode, swept his room, spread the bedding in the sun, refilled Baba's drinking water and thereafter got his tea. Because Bhau was late every day, Baidul would become very upset with him. Though he knew well that Bhau was attending to Baba's chores first, still he abused him. One day he even roughly manhandled Bhau. He caught hold of the front of Bhau's shirt and gave him a hard slap. "Am I your father's servant," Baidul asked, irate, "that I have to keep tea waiting for you?"
Such was the type of life one had to lead with Baba. Baba's orders were there, and one had to follow them despite facing uncomfortable situations. At every step, one had to overcome obstacles, until one was broken into pieces. This was the state of those living with Baba — living while dying every moment! Baba had said he would deal with Bhau's shame in Khuldabad and this is what he had meant.
Having finished his inner work in one week rather than three, Baba left Khuldabad for Satara by way of Meherazad and Ahmednagar on Monday, 28 March 1955. (Sidhu took Ali Shah back to Meherabad, and Chhagan returned home to Ahmednagar.) In Meherazad, Kaka kept everything neat and clean, as if Baba were residing there. So Baba did not mind paying a quick visit there without prior notice. Baba again met Adi Sr. and Savak Damania briefly in Ahmednagar, when his car stopped for gas at Sarosh Motor Works.
Mani wrote to the Westerners, "Baba returned from Khuldabad looking wan and very tired from the strain of long hours of special concentrated work he did there."
On Baba's return to Satara, Kohiyar Satarawala was told to select and keep ready 100 poor working-class men and women in Mahabaleshwar, and he did so with the help of Shahastrabudhe. Baba went to Mahabaleshwar on Thursday, 7 April 1955, with Eruch, Pendu, Bhau, Baidul and Kumar and, as was his custom, washed the feet of the poor, bowed down to them, and gave each ten rupees as prasad.