Roda narrated to Baba this incident about Sarosh. One day she told him that he was big enough now to go to the toilet without her help. Sarosh entered the bathroom, and sat on the commode. After passing a stool, the boy picked up a mug of water and loudly shouted, "Avatar Meher Baba ki jai!" Then he washed himself, much to the amusement of his mother.
On hearing this, Baba, too, had a hearty laugh and remarked to Roda, "I have given you three select gems."
Kharmen Masi came for the darshan.
She was a stout, rotund woman, and Baba teased her, "Kharmen Masi, you seem weak! You should be sent to the battlefield to fight!"
Soonamasi and her daughter, Khorshed, attended the darshan. They had been staying in Bombay since the New Life began in 1949 and were only permitted to visit Baba occasionally.
Soonamasi was miserable at living away from Baba, and Baba assured her, "Don't think I am keeping you away. By being far, I keep you close to me."
Baba asked Jal and Dolly Dastoor, "Do you ever quarrel?"
Jal replied, "At times."
"Then, let me see how you fight!" Both burst out laughing, but Dolly's mother, Soonamasi Engineer, said, "They don't quarrel, Baba. Jal is a very good man."
Baba asked D. M. Shinde, "How is your business?"
"Full of ups and downs," he replied.
"All worldly affairs are like that," Baba observed. "Only my business doesn't have them!"
Baba asked Keshav Nene to sing, which he did.
Baba asked his age, and when Nene said, "Forty-five," Baba quipped, "You look like a youngster of fifteen."
Meherbai Merchant was a very short lady, and Baba joked with her, "You look like a pygmy! When I come back after 700 years, I will make you 20 feet tall and use a ladder to embrace you."
Thus the darshan ended amidst great merriment, and Baba, too, appeared very happy.
There was one odd aspect of Baba's month-long stay in Bombay in October 1957. For the first time, Baba had not taken Gustadji with him. The close mandali could not understand why. Usually, wherever Baba traveled anywhere, Baba indicated that Gustadji had to be with him. But Baba's reason became apparent when, on Wednesday, 30 October 1957, Adi telephoned from Ahmednagar to inform Baba that Gustadji had passed away that day at 3:20 P.M. Kaka Baria had gone to his room to take him his afternoon tea and found him lying on his side in bed not breathing.