Though all correspondence was to be stopped from 1 January 1963, numerous letters were received each day; indeed, from 1962 onward until Baba dropped his body, the amount of mail continued increasing. During the day, Mani and Eruch would work together replying to the correspondence. Mani was corresponding with America and Europe; Eruch with India and Pakistan in English; Bhau with those in India and elsewhere in Hindi; Baidul (and later Aloba) in Persian with those followers in Iran; and Adi with those in South India.
Among the women, Mehera and Meheru continued to see to Baba's personal needs. Naja cooked for him and the women. Goher, besides being the personal physician for Baba and the mandali, also kept bazaar accounts and saw to the manifold small matters of running the household. Kaka was the manager of Meherazad. Bhau, Pendu and Rano in turns would keep watch near Baba at night — Bhau from afternoon until midnight, and Pendu and Rano three hours each until 6:00 A.M. Aloba prepared tea twice a day for the men and oversaw the cleaning of mandali hall each day. Francis was engaged in writing work, while Kaikobad prayed and continuously repeated Baba's name in his room. In general, each resident mandali had a specific duty assigned to him, but almost daily some new responsibility would crop up, causing friction. Everyone had to face and pass through it. Baba's method to defeat the ego was to strangle one, holding a knife to one's throat!
During the next three months, Baba would often give spiritual discourses and explanations to the men in the mornings and sometimes in the afternoons. He would frequently call upon Aloba to read couplets from Hafiz in Persian and Baba would translate them.
Once, Baba commented, "Hafiz's words are as pearls in the Ocean of Divinity, though to the average reader, his words are as oysters."
When Baba would explain a couplet of Hafiz, he revealed the "pearl" hidden in each "oyster."
On another occasion, Baba quoted this verse from the Perfect Master Tukaram:
Even if I were to have your sahavas [company] continually, the mystery of your being would still not be unfolded to me.