Baba then inquired of Ghani and Ramjoo, "After I return from Persia, I may call you to stay with me for a month or two. Will you do it? At that time I will explain to both of you about the inner secret, which I have promised to explain to only a selected few."
Both replied, "We wish to be with you, but allow us to go home when necessary."
Baba agreed to this, but added, "From now on, I will not be responsible for anything that has to do with either of you."
Baba broke his prolonged fast on Sunday, 20 January 1924 and began eating solid food once every day. As mentioned throughout his life, the mandali were to observe that all of Baba's actions contained hidden significance that affected the lives of everything in creation. Sometimes the reasons for the Master's moods, seclusions or fasts would become apparent or they would coincide with certain world events which the mandali would come to know of later when they read the newspapers. For example, when Baba was in a bad mood or shouting at someone, the next day they would read of some disaster or natural calamity, such as a train crash, an ocean liner sinking, or a great flood or drought somewhere in the world. In the case of Meher Baba's breaking his fast on 20 January, the following day the Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin passed away. (Over 900,000 people came to view Lenin's body during the four days and nights that it lay in state.)
On the 22nd, Memo, Masaji, Dowla Masi and (most likely) Naja, accompanied by Babu Cyclewalla, arrived from Poona at the Bharucha Building. Finding her son very thin and weak, Shireenmai rebuked him, "Merwan, why are you starving yourself? Are you mad?"
Laughing, Baba replied, "Mother, the whole world is mad — not I! I am the healer of the mad!"
Memo remarked caustically, "When you fast like a madman, how can you hope to help the mad?"
"I have to fast in order to make them well!"
"Forget about the mad and go on eating!" his mother exhorted him.
"To cure them, I have taken birth through your womb. If I don't play my part, your name will be cursed throughout history!"
Hearing this, Memo could not suppress a smile.
On Sunday, 27 January, a qawaali program was held in the Manzil-e-Meem compound, featuring Yasin Qawaal, who had sung for Baba several times before.