To entertain Baba, Nana Kher and Bal Natu twice staged amusing skits, and Francis continued to read aloud his English ghazals to him. Baba was also listening to Bhau read his Hindi translation of The Wayfarers .
On 3 June 1968, Harry Kenmore telephoned Guruprasad from New York, asking for any fresh news, and hoping that Baba would give darshan soon. Eruch told him that he did not feel Baba would grant darshan that year.
On the 24th, Baba had Eruch read out the list of departed ones twice.
Afterwards, he commented, "God has blessed them according to their intimacy with me, according to their service to me, according to their sacrifice for me. Amen!"
That same day Baba sent the women mandali to Hazrat Babajan's tomb to pay their respects.
On 25 June, Baba's blood samples were again checked for sugar, urea and cholesterol levels. Maharani Shantadevi was permitted to visit on 26 and 27 June 1968. Since Baba was preparing to return to Meherazad, he suspended his seclusion work from 28 June until 4 July.
On 29 June, X-rays were taken of Baba's chest and cervical spine at a Poona medical clinic. This would be the last time Baba was X-rayed or went to a hospital.
At 11:00 A.M. on 30 June, Baba signed a copy of Indumati Deshmukh's Marathi play Meher Deepti (The Light of Meher) and had it returned to her.
Adi and Don came to Poona with their cars on the 30th and saw Baba at Guruprasad. Although Baba had originally stated that he would be extending his stay in Poona until 12 July, he changed his plans and returned to Meherazad on Monday, 1 July 1968, without allowing anyone to come to Guruprasad to bid him farewell, and without stopping to see anyone on the way in Poona or Ahmednagar.
Baba would never step out of Meherazad again.
During Baba's absence, Padri, Kaka, Kaikobad and Dr. Alu Khambatta had remained in Meherazad with the servants. Two servants, named Rakhma and Sev (pronounced Say-o ), were longstanding maids who worked not for wages but out of love for Baba. There were also two other women servants from Pimpalgaon Village, named Jai and Gangi, who had become devoted to Baba. Gangi was the stepmother of a boy named Gorakh, who many years before was reared by Khorshed in Bombay according to Baba's wish. Now, as an adult, Gorakh was working in Meherazad.