Sunday, 19 July 1959, was a "family darshan" for the close Poona lovers — their final opportunity to see Baba, as he was to leave Poona shortly. Baba was with them the entire day. Many brought packed lunches with them.
Adi, Padri and Kaka Baria came to Guruprasad for four days on Sunday, 26 July 1959 to attend a meeting of the Avatar Meher Baba Trust. Don arrived on the 30th. At about 3:00 P.M. on the 28th, while emphasizing the need for proper medical treatment for Francis, who was ill, Baba remarked:
"The Lord of the Universe has to fight the last battle with the infinite force of maya — during August, September and October — and wishes three or four of the mandali to help him in that. So he wants them to be physically and mentally healthy."
On the evening of 31 July, Baba dictated this poem:
For me is all that seems to be. If I were not, where would all be? It's me, not all that seems to be; Without me this all would cease to be. Let me and you and all not be, Then only would we be to be.
On Sunday, 2 August 1959, Professor Rajdurkar of Aurangabad delivered a very humorous kirtan at Guruprasad, which Baba thoroughly enjoyed.
At the end, Baba remarked, "How can I narrate what I found by finding me?"
Up to this time, Baba had been walking by holding the arm of one of the mandali; but, on the 4th, he remarked, "I have a fancy to walk unaided today," and getting up from his chair, he did just that.
Then he started walking up to the entrance gates of Guruprasad, resting at two spots along the way. Pukar would kneel down on all fours and Baba would sit on his back, using him as a chair. Baba used this "live-chair" for three or four days and then stopped. (Jalbhai took a film of one of these occasions.)
Dr. Chatterjee, one of the doctors who treated Baba after the accident, saw him at this time and remarked, "It is exactly the condition that would have resulted from the operation we advised. It seems he has performed his own operation!" By the end of the month, Baba was also able to sit on the floor, if desired, as before.
On Wednesday, 5 August 1959, Baba sent Mehera, Mani and Kaikobad to Hazrat Babajan's tomb, where they were to pray that Baba would break his silence at the end of October that year, and until then, Babajan should help in his work. The three of them did so. (Since Mehera could not show herself to Kaikobad, the curtain was closed between the front and back seat of the car.)