At Guruprasad, the topic was brought up that Baba had appeared to someone in a distant place.
Sheela spoke up, "Baba, once when we were staying at my grandfather's house [near Nagpur], Mehernath said he saw you."
Rama said, "Yes, Baba, he began calling everyone. He was only two or three years old at the time and had only seen a portrait of you, yet he described your sadra and said you caressed his face and spoke with him."
"Did you really come?" Sheela asked.
Baba nodded, replying, "Yes, certain times I come to my lovers. I came to see only Mehernath, but when he started calling everyone I had to leave."
The first day the Kalchuris came to see Baba, he was very solicitous and loving toward them; but the next day, he was in a serious mood.
He placed certain restrictions on Rama, cut her monthly allowance and informed her, "Now, I will see how much you love me."
She started crying, and Baba remarked, "If you have love for me, I will now test it."
On the third day, before everyone present, Baba asked Bhau, "Did you meet Rama and the children?"
Bhau said no. Baba ordered him to embrace them before all those present, after which he sent the family back to Meherabad.
Later, he remarked to Bhau, "Don't worry. I am drawing Rama nearer to me. She is really good and has a good heart. She is residing in Meherabad alone with two small children, yet never gives rise to any complications. I love her very much and so keep her tied to my orders."
On Monday, 1 June 1959, Baba held a meeting in Guruprasad at 8:00 A.M. with the mandali and the Poona Center workers. In their presence, he announced:
I have decided to stop giving darshan on Saturdays and Sundays from the 8th of June onwards, but I will remain in Guruprasad until the end of July.
I appear to you cheerful, radiant and healthy, but my health is 100 percent hopeless. My personal doctor says, "Baba, take complete rest. Don't walk fast. Stop giving darshan. All this is a constant strain on your health."
The doctor is right. When I retire to rest at night, I feel that my whole body has been wrung out. My pulse is between 120 to 130, which is far above normal. Yet you see me busy from morning till late in the evening, attending even to the most minute details regarding various work.