In response to Baba's cutting comments, the rights of the husband in Hindu society were discussed. Baba cited the instances of King Harishchander and the saint Mira — the former sold his wife, while the latter forsook her husband.
Every man expressed his own view, but instead of continuing the subject, Baba said:
"Whenever I wish to take rest, something comes in the way. Yesterday, until the afternoon, I was busy with the arrangements of today's meeting. Just when I finished the work and began playing checkers, Nariman, Dhake, Deshmukh and others arrived and I had to quit the game. Then I talked with them and went to Grafton, where I wished to rest and remain undisturbed. But, in a few minutes, the news came that two persons from Dehra Dun were waiting for my darshan.
"Thus it always happens. Whenever I wish to take rest, some such [annoyance] occurs. Such unwanted happenings spoil my mood, but at times, it is restored in equally unexpected ways. Yesterday, when I came to Rosewood from Grafton, I had a terrible headache. Mani told me I would feel well if she read out a letter just received from America. I liked the letter so much that my headache disappeared completely."
During the meeting, Baba had the letter read by Adi Jr. in which the American expressed his readiness to stay in India, vowing to save Baba from the clutches of those who wanted to stab him to death.
Baba smilingly remarked, "At least there is one person in the world to protect me!"
Baba then asked Eruch to inform the gathering about the accidental death of Adi and Rhoda Dubash's five-year-old son Homi in Karachi the previous week. When Baba and the mandali were returning from America and Europe in 1952, Rhoda and Adi met Baba at the airport in Karachi, with their two sons. Rhoda wanted to put Homi in Baba's arms, but Baba stopped her, and instead took their eight-year-old son Merwan on his lap. Similarly, when Adi and Rhoda had met Baba in Satara after the September 1954 meeting, Baba asked her about Merwan but not about Homi.
Baba had said, "If I ask you to give me one of your sons, would you give him to me willingly?"
Rhoda had replied that she would.
It was on the afternoon of 16 April 1955 when little Homi fell down from the first story window of their home at 3:30 P.M., and was rushed to the hospital, where he died within half an hour, without regaining consciousness.