Dr. Grant was requested to come to Meherazad on his visit to Ahmednagar on Thursday, 25 August 1966 to take Baba's cardiogram. He arrived with Adi at 8:00 A.M. Because of his deep seclusion, Baba did not wish to leave Meherazad, so Padri was told to be present to make sure the generator was working. After taking the cardiogram, Grant said Baba's heart was all right. For a few minutes, Baba spoke to Grant about LSD, and repeated that it was harmful physically, mentally and spiritually.
Grant wanted to know, "Why should we go through lifetimes of penance, when we could see God by taking a pill, according to those who have tried it? If I have to go to Ahmednagar, for example, why should I sit in a bullock cart and suffer its jolts and rough ride, when I can sit in Meherjee Karkaria's Chevrolet and make the journey in comfort?"
Baba used this analogy to answer: "You can never reach God through a pill. It requires a lot of penance, hard work and going through difficult trials in the world. Did you become a big doctor by taking a pill? No, you had to work hard, study for years, go through much training, and then, after a period of years, you became a doctor. It's the same thing with life. You have to go through all the difficulties, all the torments, to reach that Goal. I give you my blessings so that one day you will attain it."
On the 26th Baba's blood and urine were again sent to Ruby Hall Clinic for analysis. Goher maintained a constant check on Baba's health to make sure his diabetes and urea level were being kept under control.
On 5 September 1966, Eruch noted that Baba "feels better and looks radiant." But he also wrote to one family on the 16th that Baba had recently remarked:
My health has very little to do with physical factors. My physical body, which alone is visible to your physical eyes, appears to you all affected and afflicted. But it is all due to the tremendous pressure of the burden of Universal suffering that I shoulder on my Universal body that tells upon my physical body with which you are conversant and which is the only medium for you to see me and feel me in the gross world.
Soon after I break my silence, all the Universal suffering will end. The end of November 1967 will be the turning point for everything.
One morning at breakfast, illustrating to the women the transformation that would take place in the world after he broke his silence, Baba cupped his left hand loosely over his right as though he were holding a big ball. Then with a deft movement brought his right hand on top as if he had turned the ball over. One of them interpreted, "Upside down?"
With a half-smile Baba gestured, "Right side up!"
On 24 September 1966, Ramdas Chaurasia and a friend went to Meherazad, ostensibly only to see Eruch and Bhau, but Baba acquiesced to meet him. Don arrived the following evening from Bombay, where he had been for a fortnight to clear the import of his car from England.
Although no one except for those called was allowed to visit Meherazad, on 26 September, many Arangaon villagers showed up in a long ox cart procession. Baba did not wish to see them, but they pleaded with Pendu who felt sorry for them and beseeched Baba to grant their request. Baba agreed to see them for seven minutes and allowed them to come inside for darshan.
In response to a letter from Irwin and Edward Luck, relating their recent problems, on the 26th, Baba had Adi write:
... Baba wants you to know that you should not bother or feel worried over evil sexual thoughts that come into or pass through your mind. He wants you to be always careful and watchful never to put into action such thoughts. Then you will NOT be bound. No sooner you commit to action you get bound, says Baba.