Baba then met with the five men chosen to fast. Two-minute individual interviews followed. Baba talked with everyone in batches of five. Madon was first and showed Baba his small box of ointment. He told Baba, "Eruch's uncle's throat was terribly sore; he was unable to speak. Famous doctors advised him to have an operation. But, taking your name, he used the Aascharya Malam and was cured!"
Baba advised, "Don't you forget to take my name!"
Baba related to him a story about Baidul. Many years ago in Iran, Baidul began treating the sick with boiled garlic oil. Taking Baba's name, he used the same medicine on every type of malady — colds, cough, pneumonia, typhoid, malaria, earaches, diseases of the eye, and so forth — and the sick got well. Not only that, but amazingly his remedy proved infallible in treating donkeys, horses and cattle too.
Baba told Madon, "This is not my miracle, but the result of Baidul's faith in me."
Baba spoke with all the sahavas group and then left for lunch.
After tea, when everyone was present in the hall at lower Meherabad, before the music started, Baba stated:
I am pleased with all those who have come in this group. The atmosphere here now is quite different; it will change with the arrival of subsequent groups. With the Andhra group, the program during the day will mainly consist of bhajans, kirtans and arti. But the Parsis are quite different from the standpoints of temperament, habits and so on. Although Parsis are very good at heart, and their nature admirable in many respects, their ways of devotion, worship and reverence toward saints and Perfect Masters are quite distinct from and at variance with the Hindus'. People from the South, though clever, learned and even brilliant, surpass the Parsis in love and in doing Baba's work with a zeal and enthusiasm and sincerity that can only be matched by those from Hamirpur. In Andhra, there are Baba lovers from a [government] minister on down to a coolie and they all do Baba work honestly, going from village to village carrying my message of love. The Maharashtrians, too, are not lagging behind in this respect.
But the Parsis take no pride in my being a Zoroastrian. It is true that a prophet is never recognized and revered in his own time and by his own people. This has been true since ages past. It happens in every Avataric period.