On 31 August 1963, Perin sent food for Baba and the mandali via Jehangu Sukhadwalla. A week later, on 7 September, Rati Baliwala, a mentally disturbed young woman from Bombay who had met Baba at Guruprasad, wandered into Meherazad. Baba instructed that she be sent back to Bombay.
Bhau had completed the translation and commentary of The Everything and The Nothing in Hindi while in Poona. As Baba wished, Bhau had rewritten and expanded the book in the form of conversation and songs. It became a larger book, and after they returned to Meherazad, Baba would listen daily as Bhau read a portion of it aloud in the hall.
After Baba had the entire book read to him, he called Keshav Nigam and Pukar from Hamirpur for two days. They arrived on 5 September, and Baba directed Keshav to have the book printed. Keshav's composition Meher Chalisa had been published as a book, and Baba signed a copy of it and presented it to him.
Dhun Satha and her father, Homi, visited Baba on the 9th. That day, Baba and the mandali enjoyed food prepared by Roshan Kerawala and the Satha family of Akbar Press.
On 12 September 1963, Eruch was admitted to Booth Hospital in Ahmednagar, where the following day he underwent surgery for a fistula.1 After a two-week stay in the hospital, he returned to Meherazad on 25 September.
Without prior intimation, Stella Kusevich suddenly returned to Ahmednagar on the 20th, and declared that she was going to Meherazad to meet Baba. Adi drove her there, where Baba met her for ten minutes and instructed her to go straight back home, and not to come again without permission. She could come to Poona in April 1964 for a week, Baba said.
Jalbhai returned from Andhra on 22 September and gave Baba a full report. He related that he had been welcomed there as being on par with Ram's brother, Laxman. Jim, Nariman and his brothers, Beheram, Rustom and Hoshang, came to Meherazad at 3:00 P.M. on the 27th, with Adi.
Mohan-Saigal gave a performance at Meherazad from 1:00 until 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, 28 September 1963, a wonderful musical feast of ghazals. Gajwani, Siganporia and Eruch Patel from Bombay, and Meherwan Jessawala and many from Ahmednagar were present, including all those from Upper and lower Meherabad — about 105 persons. Baba had enjoyed Mohan's singing in Guruprasad and was delighted to have him at Meherazad. Lata and the Khilnani boys also sang, and Dhake recited a Marathi prayer he had composed.
Footnotes
- 1.While Eruch was in the hospital, he arranged with Adi for Dr. Pedersen and his family to be shown the East-West Gathering film in their living quarters at the hospital. A few other Salvation Army women attended the private showing and sung a Christian hymn.