Bhau's anal fistula had become severe. On the 6th, Baba dropped him off at Booth Hospital in Ahmednagar where he was to have surgery two days later. Don attended the operation and looked after him, assisted by Sidhu. Baba also visited the Satha family at Akbar Press at 8:15 A.M. on the 6th, and again at 8:30 A.M. on the 15th, when he also visited Bhau in his room at Booth Hospital.
On Sunday, 7 February 1960, Baba went to Meherabad to see Mansari, Kaikobad's family and the Kalchuris. On the 20th, Bhau was moved by ambulance to Meherabad where he stayed until the end of March.
When Baba was at Akbar Press on 15 February, he explained to Meherjee Mama:
"From your birth till now you have never once thought that you never were! All these years, months and days, you are fully aware that you are — irrespective of what may have happened to your body and in your mind and what not."
Meherjee Mama interrupted saying, "But we should have the dnyan for all times to have the ultimate experience for all times."
Baba continued, "For this dnyan it is up to you to know with full and complete consciousness and at all times that 'What you are is not.'
"In your lifetime [i.e., in your ignorance], you are fully conscious that in all your life you have never felt even once in complete consciousness that you were not, for you always felt and will remain always aware that 'you are.'
"What 'you are' [now] should be continually experienced as 'you are not.' This is the dnyan which makes one know everything in an instant for all times, for one then becomes the very source of dnyan."
In Bombay, one of Baba's old disciples, Pleader, had a heart attack, and Baba was informed about it through letters and telegrams. Pleader was in much pain and the Bombay devotees continued to send reports to Baba, asking what should be done. Finally, fed up with the constant flow of correspondence and telegrams, Baba asked them to bring Pleader to Meherazad, and they did so at 10:30 A.M. on 19 February 1960.
Pleader was on a stretcher and Baba asked him how he was feeling. In a feeble voice, Pleader complained to Baba, "Either fulfill your promise or stop calling yourself God!" (This referred to Baba's telling Pleader he would be given a glimpse of the Reality of God.)
Touching Pleader's palm with his own, in a gesture of promise, Baba assured him, "I will fulfill my promise before you drop the body; don't worry."