Addressing Yeshwant Rao, Baba remarked, "Write to Tataji [Godavri's nickname] that on her return from Surat, I will come and stay at Sakori for two days. I will set the dates. I will feel happy in eating food cooked by her."
Dr. Deshmukh was anxious to take Baba to Nagpur to give sahavas to women there. He was aware of what had been discussed with other groups, as he had been in Meherabad for a month.
Baba informed Deshmukh and the congregation:
I am in the habit of giving promises age after age, but I forget them. Still, until now, I have not broken a single promise! And so Deshmukh, do not bind me with any date and time for sahavas to the women in Nagpur. From the time he came here, Deshmukh has been driving the mandali mad about it! He has been telling me so often about his wish to take me to Nagpur, not only to give sahavas to women, but he wants me to meet the vice-chancellor of Nagpur University and all the professors! I have ordered him not to mention the Nagpur program again. After this sahavas, I have a lot of matters to attend to. If time permits, I will go to Nagpur only to give sahavas to the women there.
There was an interval for lunch at eleven o'clock. Although Baba had previously asked the group to rest afterward until 1:00 P.M., he had the gathering reassembled at 12:30 to hear bhajans from Madhusudan, Pratap and the Poona bhajan mandali. Before the bhajans started, Suloo Meshram of Jabalpur sought Baba's permission to sing a song before him. On being allowed, he started in a sort of dolorous voice which was neither singing nor speaking.
After a few minutes, Baba stopped him, remarking jokingly, "Although I am not in the habit of sleeping at all during the night or at any other time, your rendering will surely make me drowsy, and the infection will spread to all those gathered in the hall with the result that those who are already yawning will begin to doze, and those not yawning will start. You have written a very good song. You love me; but when you sing, I feel drowsy! Don't think I sleep, but your voice makes me sleepy! If I once sleep, the whole universe will sleep!"