Baba then confronted Rustom and Nervous, "Why did you break my order? Why did you send for a doctor?"
Rustom protested, "But Baba, you were in such terrible pain ... You said you were dying!"
Baba retorted, "Even if I had died, you should not have disobeyed my instructions! What could the doctor have done for me anyway? My suffering was the result of my internal work for Asar. It is a question of obedience to my orders. Adhere to my orders and see that in no situation are they ever disobeyed. Only by executing my orders will you keep me pleased, and to keep me pleased is the highest service you can possibly render."
Late that night, Ghani was pressing the Master's feet, and Baba told him to retire at exactly 1:30 A.M. Ghani wondered how he was to know when it was 1:30, since there was no clock in the room and he was not wearing a watch. Ghani was puzzled as to what to do. He thought if he did not leave at 1:30 he would be breaking the order — but if he did leave, the sound of his departure would probably disturb Baba. After some time, Baba appeared to be sleeping but suddenly turned over and asked what time it was. Ghani left to look at the clock and was surprised to find it was exactly 1:30.
In those days, Baba had a tendency to suffer from constipation whenever he ate regularly. But since starting his one-meal-a-day fast, he was passing watery stools several times a day. The men who attended to him were beside themselves to understand how he could pass so many stools when his stomach was virtually empty. Although he was eating one solid meal, he would have ten to twelve bowel movements each day. His appearance, too, would change from day to day; at times he looked weak and feeble, but at other times he appeared strong and active.
One day Baba convened a session of the Gutta and said, "Let us have a motto." All agreed this was needed. After a dozen suggestions and rejections by various men, Baba, himself, spontaneously proposed "Mastery in Servitude." Everyone liked it, so it was officially adopted as the motto of Manzil-e-Meem and later was used on a seal of the Master's work.
During the night of 8 February, Ghani was reading to Baba from the book The Life of Ghous Ali — a Mohammedan Qutub who was a ghous type Perfect Master like Sai Baba, and separated his physical body parts as an aspect of his spiritual working.