The first to greet Baba every morning when he came to the mandali's side was a multi-breed puppy who had wandered into Meherazad from Pimpalgaon Village one day. The puppy was half-starved, seeking food. Baba said the dog should be kept, and named it Rammu . The pup had arrived quite skinny, but because of Mehera and Meheru's care (and Baba's habit of overfeeding pets!), Rammu soon filled out.
As soon as Goher would blow the whistle summoning the garden boys with the lift-chair for Baba, Rammu would wait for him by the door of the hall. After Baba's seclusion work with Kaikobad was done, the doors and windows would be reopened. The first thing Baba would do was to give Rammu a piece of bread. Mehera had trained the dog to jump over a stick. Every day the mandali would hold a stick in front of Baba. Baba would hold a piece of bread on one side, and Rammu would jump over it, winning the treat from Baba's hands. Playing with the dog was a pleasant pastime for Baba after his strenuous seclusion work.
Thereafter, Baba would send the men out of the hall, except for Bhau, who was to write down Baba's dictations. From 21 July 1967, Baba began dictating material to Bhau for a new book, which Baba titled The Nothing and The Everything .
Baba told him, "I am giving you ten percent of the book which I wrote in Meherabad during 1925–26 ... The other 90 percent is in God Speaks ."
After his dictation work with Bhau was finished for the day, Baba would call the mandali back inside the hall. Among other work, Baba instructed Eruch to start reading God Speaks out loud from the first page. As Eruch would read it, Baba would gesture to mark a certain passage, and Francis would jot down the page and line numbers on a separate sheet of paper. This was not done every day, but only when time permitted. Baba stated that once they had gone through the entire book in this manner, he would go back and give further explanations about the marked portions for a revised edition of God Speaks .
Baba explained, "Francis will be responsible for writing down my explanations, and for summing up all the different clarifications."
But the occasion never arose, and Baba never clarified the points he wished to elucidate.