On Saturday, 30 April 1955, according to Baba's wish, Bhau sent all the ingredients for preparing food for the mandali to Grafton, which consisted of utensils, grain, cooking oil, tea, sugar, and other essentials, leaving their kitchen bare. Baba's seclusion was to start the next day, and no arrangement for their food had been made. Baba came to Jal Villa at 8:00 P.M. to discuss this problem with them. Aloba, Kumar, Krishna and Krishnaji had already made separate arrangements for themselves, as they had plenty of spare time, but there was no provision for the rest of the mandali. Tea and food were to be sent over from Grafton only for Kaikobad.
After a long discussion, Baidul undertook the responsibility of providing food for all, and Baba was pleased about this. Therefore, Baidul was freed from nightwatch duty. The next day, Vishnu made all new purchases, including utensils, et cetera, and the mandali's meals were arranged.
All of Baba's things and personal belongings were brought to Jal Villa from Grafton. Baba had ordered the mandali to fast for 24 hours on the 30th, with tea taken thrice. They kept awake with Baba until he entered seclusion at Jal Villa at 12:15 A.M. on Sunday, 1 May 1955 and then returned to Rosewood.
In Jal Villa, Baba worked daily with Kaikobad for hours at a time. No one could see inside, as the door was kept tightly shut; but outside, Kaikobad's voice could be heard repeating God's names (such as Ya Yezdan, Beloved God, Paramatma, Ahuramazda, Parabrahma, Allah, God Almighty, Khuda). Years later, the mandali found out that Kaikobad would keep his foot on a stool and continue repeating God's name one after another; and every time he did so, Baba would bow his head, touching Kaikobad's foot with his forehead. It would go on for hours on end. Thousands of times Baba would bow to the name of God. Who can fathom the Avatar's Universal work?
Except those on duty in Jal Villa, no one else was allowed inside. Every fifth day of the week, Baba would send for Mehera and Mani. Goher would accompany them but would stand waiting outside the bungalow.
In a letter to Beryl Williams, dated 5 May 1955, Mani described Jal Villa:
Mehera and I are allowed to see Baba every five days — and yesterday we went over. Baba showed us around. It is such an old house, but there is a lot of atmosphere, and a lovely view from one of the front windows. There is a central bigger room (it's really two rooms divided by a partition) where Baba walks up and down for exercise, as he does not step out of the house — or even that part of the house. His bedroom, and adjoining it a little room (couldn't be more than six by eight feet), where he shuts himself up for his work — it had a rather high and narrow cement platform in one corner on which our "Highest of the High" sits when working.
Adi Sr. was called to Satara on 18 May 1955. On Sunday, 22 May, Baba called all the men mandali to Jal Villa at 7:00 P.M. The Master's Prayer was recited, and five minutes after midnight, Baba left Jal Villa for Grafton. The entire mandali accompanied him, and all the men kept awake until 5:00 A.M., according to his wish.