Dr. Grant was called to Guruprasad to examine Baba on 12 May due to his complaint of headache and giddiness, and Grant felt it was due to impaired circulation to the brain from constriction of the basilar arteries. Don was there that day also. He was on his way to Bombay, and on the 16th he flew to England, to visit his family and deal with property matters related to his brother's death.
S. D. Lalit, 31, of Nagpur met Baba for the first time at the May darshan. Lalit was a handsome married man, erudite (with a master's degree in geophysics), but his wife Raj, though educated, was a simple, guileless, somewhat emotionally fragile woman. Before coming to Poona, Lalit had filed for a divorce, after four years of marriage. Raj's relatives were quite well-to-do with a good name in the community. They did their best to persuade Lalit against taking this step, but he did not listen and proceeded with the divorce. Lalit's job had transferred him from Nagpur to Calcutta, and he had left Raj behind with her family. Sometime later, Baba received a letter about this from Raj's sister. Mutual enmity between Lalit and Raj's family reached such a tense state that by the time he left for Poona, neither family was on speaking terms.
When Lalit had Baba's darshan, he surrendered to Baba. So impressed was he by Baba, that when he returned home he withdrew his divorce suit, though his indifferent feelings toward his wife did not alter.
Nana Kher knew Lalit, and after some time Baba asked him, "Does Lalit love me?"
"He loves you very much, Baba," Nana answered.
Baba told Bhau to write Lalit inquiring the reason for his abandoning his wife. In the meantime, Raj's father and sister had written to Baba entreating him to reconcile the couple. Lalit wrote back a long letter in which he expressed his utter dissatisfaction with his married life.
At that Baba remarked, "Now I will see how much Lalit loves me!"
Baba instructed Bhau, "Send Lalit a letter every day for a week, repeating the same thing: 'Do whatever you think best, right and just.' "
Accordingly, Bhau wrote him every day, and on receipt of the fifth letter, in which Bhau wrote, "If Baba says to keep Raj with you, will you?" Lalit agreed and wrote to Raj's father and sister to send Raj to Calcutta.