Baba reassured her, "Do you think it has anything to do with you? It is all my doing. Even a petal on this garland does not fall off without my will. It was my will that he should die on that particular day in that particular way. Had he lived, he may have suffered much more. So be happy in what I have destined for him."
Baba brought Dina again to Ashiana. As she sat before him, Baba asked her to cry. She began weeping after a while, but said, "It is not for Curshed that I cry; it is for your love, Baba. Because your love is so great, because I can never be grateful enough for all that you shower on me. Because I do not love you as you ought to be loved."
Contrary to traditional Zoroastrian custom, no ceremony was performed for Curshed. Baba simply handed five rupees to Rupamai, Dina's mother, and instructed her to go to the fire-temple and put five rupees' worth of sandalwood in the fire. He instructed that, on the seventeenth day after his death, they were to feed 20 poor persons with food cooked by them. (Baba even gave the menu: plain dal, rice and potatoes and nothing else.)
The fourth day after a Zoroastrian's death is usually an important ceremonial day. On that day, Baba instructed the Talati women to accompany the women mandali to see The Ten Commandments. He also ordered Dina and Perviz to prepare and serve food to seventeen poor persons on 4 February. Only later did they come to know that on that day, Curshed's remains were cremated in England.
Curshed was the sole support of the family, and after his demise, Dina faced many hardships. But the situation was bravely met, and she and her youngest daughter found jobs to support themselves, proving worthy examples of love for Baba.
Baba had recently stated, "Fortunate are they whose love is tested by misfortune," and so they were.
The elder daughter, Jeroo, came to see Baba at Ashiana one day. She looked unhappy and Baba asked the reason. "My husband, Rusi, does not come to you," she said, "and it pains me deeply."
Baba stated, "Don't ask him to come. He will come, but let him come on his own."
Jeroo stopped mentioning Baba to her husband, who eventually expressed his wish to pay his respects to Baba and came to him on his own.
During the final few days of January 1958, Baba was not feeling at all well and had a fever every day. He left Bombay for Meherazad on 1 February. On the way out of town, he stopped at Naoroji Dadachanji's in Dadar. Baba left Naoroji's but unexpectedly had the car stopped again at Jim and Roda Mistry's apartment nearby. Roda had come to see him earlier, but as was his wish, her sons Meherwan and Falu had not been taken out of school. He called to her and told her to convey his love to Meherwan and Falu. Baba was so loving and considerate he remembered even two small boys.