After giving darshan and handing out the prasad with both hands for hours, at 2:45 p.m. Baba embraced Sadhu Vaswani and left the school. He collected a pack lunch from Bindra House and stopped for a few minutes to give darshan in front of the General Post Office. On the way to Meherazad, he stopped for a while at the Sakhares' (3 Loop Road). A family from Andhra who had not been able to have darshan at the school had gone to the Sakhares' in hopes of meeting Baba. The Sakhares had been instructed not to allow anyone else to be at their residence when Baba came, so they had told this family to remain in the garage at the back. When Baba arrived, he asked the Sakhares if anyone else was present, and pried the information out of them that this family was waiting in the garage. Baba then gave them darshan. Their disappointment over being denied it at the school turned into ecstatic joy!
Before leaving, Baba's arti was sung and he remarked, "Today's program gave me much pleasure."
In response to that comment, Kumar and Bhau narrated their afternoon of trouble and misfortune at the hands of the police.
Baba laughed much, remarking, "That is what gave me so much pleasure! It served you right, and I was happy. You deserve such treatment. Today I found out that you cannot give me your companionship. I had ordered you to stay close to me, but instead you left me in the hands of the police!"
"But, Baba, we were quite helpless," Kumar declared. "We could not do anything about the police."
Baba replied, "That is why I keep telling you that obedience is impossible. Now do you understand it or not?"
Kumar had no answer to this because, in fact, Baba's instruction could not be carried out, and circumstances had rendered them helpless.
Baba returned to Meherazad in the evening, his arm aching after giving prasad to thousands of people. He informed the women about the rough behavior the mandali had received at the hands of the police and unruly crowd.
Elcha Mistry had attended the darshan in Poona and saw Baba at Meherazad on the 24th. Keshav Nigam was staying in Meherazad. On Monday, 25 March 1957, Bhavani Prasad Nigam and Laxmichand Paliwal also arrived from Hamirpur. For years there had been great camaraderie between these two men, but recently bitterness had arisen between them.