The civil surgeon, Dr. Abadin, who was a Muslim, was genuinely drawn to Baba. He would visit Grafton every day to see Baba and came to know more about him through Ramjoo.
Bhau and Aloba attended Eruch and Pendu day and night in the hospital, and the staff was impressed by their heartfelt expression of brotherly devotion. The staff had never witnessed so much love between Parsi, Irani, Hindu and Muslim, and one of the doctors remarked to Bhau: "We would not have served our own father or brother as devotedly as you have been serving your brother disciples." The entire hospital staff had a glimpse of Baba's divine love, which is devoid of any restrictions regarding religion, caste, community or race.
Baba had stated that during the final part of his one-year seclusion, it was essential that he be in complete retirement. Now, confined to his bed in Grafton, lying on his back in one position all the time and virtually unable to move, his retirement could not have been more absolute or complete.
But it was only a week after the accident, when the pains became too severe, and other complications such as continuous muscle spasms had also set in, that Baba at last agreed to Goher and Don's pleas to be shifted to Poona, where better medical facilities were available.
On Monday morning, 10 December 1956, Baba was taken by ambulance to Poona and kept in Dr. Bansod's nursing home on Jangli Maharaj Road. Mehera, Mani and Meheru followed in Meherjee's car, and Rano and Naja arrived the next morning in Sam Kerawala's car. Baba was taken straight to Dr. Bansod's clinic. He had to be carried on a stretcher up the narrow steps to the second floor and was extremely uncomfortable. Meherwan Jessawala was waiting at the clinic and recalls, "The tremendous pain Baba was suffering in the hip made him groan very loudly. It was excruciating pain he was suffering." The plaster cast was removed because Baba's leg muscle had started to cramp. More X-rays were taken, and his leg was put in traction. A neurologist and heart specialist were also called in to examine him.
The pelvic fracture was healing satisfactorily, but the pain varied in intensity, becoming excruciating with the least movement on Baba's part. Yet, when the pain in the hip was relieved, some other form of pain arose — as if Baba were clearly telling the mandali that he had to suffer in this way at that time, and nothing they could do would mitigate it, nor could they share what he had taken on. Baba seemed to confirm this.
One day he traced a circle on the spot of the fracture with his finger and gestured, "The suffering of the whole universe is concentrated on this little spot. This is a tangible expression of the universal suffering I bear."