If you do this, it will be a help to me in my work. I expect you not to break any of my orders, however small or trivial they may appear to be. I want no discussion, no excuses and no explanations; I want only 100 percent obedience and straight and simple answers if and when questioned.
During the last three months, I have given my most to make you feel happy and cheerful. Now I want you to give me your cooperation by obeying me fully during the coming 40 days. There is stupendous work before me to be done and my physical body is very much strained and can no longer bear any more. I need complete relaxation for 40 days.
At the end of the meeting, prayers were offered to God by those present to enable them to hold fast to Baba's daaman and to obey him 100 percent.
Eruch and the other mandali kept up their correspondence at Guruprasad. To Elcha Mistry, who had just been fired from his job, Eruch wrote these encouraging words on 23 June 1959: "Baba wants you to just face everything bravely and cheerfully. Baba wants you to know that nothing can happen without his Divine Will and, whatever happens to one, it is always for one's own good in the long run." (As it turned out, Elcha was able to find a new job in a matter of weeks.)
On the 28th, Baba paid two visits to Baba House, the first with the women, and the second with the mandali. The next day he sent the women to Babajan's tomb with instructions for them to place a flower jali (sheet) on Babajan's samadhi. It was a "good" day for the mandali as Baba walked unaided half-way to the Guruprasad gates.
On 6 July 1959, Dr. Dikshit performed a barium meal examination of Baba's gastrointestinal and urinary tracts, but no evidence of any obstruction or lesion in his urinary tract was found.
Wednesday, 8 July, marked the end of Baba's 56 days of work, but Baba made no reference to it. He also did not issue any instructions for the observance of Silence Day that year, and left it entirely to the inclination of each person concerned, either to observe, or not to observe silence as they wished. But on that day, 10 July, Baba went to the old Poona Center, where 100 poor children were gathered, and Baba washed their feet and gave them each ten rupees as a love-gift.
Meanwhile, Kumar's eldest son, Prashant, 19, who worked as an electrician in a mine near Belgaum, was called to Guruprasad in early July.
After Baba embraced Prashant, he remarked, "You have fever."
Calling Gunatai and Nalini Gadekar, Baba asked them to keep him in their home, and asked Nalini (who was in medical school) to treat him. They did accordingly, but his illness worsened and he was removed to Jehangir Nursing Home. After a medical examination, he was found to be suffering from leukemia.
The doctor treating Prashant was Keki Byram Grant, 39, who had met Baba through Goher. On the evening of Friday, 10 July 1959, Baba sent word to Dr. Grant that if he saved Prashant that night, Baba would restore Prashant's health.