Homa said, "I am exactly on time."
"Did you take a nap?"
"Yes."
"Have you come to Poona for sleeping or for my sahavas? Dara has been here since one o'clock."
"From tomorrow, I too will come early," Homa vowed.
Baba replied with a smile, "This is only for today, not for tomorrow."
Once Homa was playing carrom with Baba and was on the point of losing. He took a final shot, but the piece failed to enter the pocket. Disappointed, Homa cried, " Hai Rama [O God]!"
Laughing, Baba remarked, "Ram is sitting before you. What other Ram are you calling upon?"
Once while playing cards with Baba in Guruprasad, Homa was asked to narrate the incident in Mahabaleshwar when he had narrowly escaped being knocked off the cliff by an oil drum which had fallen off a passing bus.
He did so and Baba observed, "Homa was playing tricks with me, but I am an expert in that! He wanted to go back to London but was pretending that he preferred to stay in Bombay. I wanted him here near me."
Another time during a card game, Baba stopped the game and asked Homa, "Have you ever touched a woman?"
Homa replied, "Yes, Baba, many times."
"Have you indulged in any other bad actions?"
"No, Baba."
Baba motioned him to put his head on his lap, and Baba whacked him soundly on the back with a plastic stick.
Once Madhusudan failed to appear in Guruprasad on time, and Baba was waiting for him. Baba told all that when he walked in they should shout, "Poochichyya [Blockhead]!" and when he arrived he was greeted with this welcome. Madhusudan was completely taken aback, and those present laughed at his expression.
During one period, Pratap was continually late for performances with the Poona bhajan group, though the others had warned him to come on time.
But when he was late yet again, Baba expressed his disapproval, remarking, "You should be cut to pieces with a blunt knife! Why a blunt knife? If the knife were sharp it would cut easily and you would not suffer much. But if the knife were blunt, it would cause more pain!"
On one occasion, a seeker from Bombay named Joshi Maharaj came for Baba's darshan along with some well-known and highly respected persons from Poona, including Jagannath Maharaj, who had met Baba at the 1955 Meherabad Sahavas.