While Naja and Mehera hurried to cook his lunch, Baba would send messages to them saying, "Such-and-such has come and has eaten, but I am starving and no one cares about feeding me!"
Baba kept sending them this message every other minute until the food was ready; hence, the women mandali, too, were not spared from Baba's arrows.
Baba again observed silence for a week in the Bharucha Building, ordering no one to enter his room. Gustadji was keeping watch and would hand him a glass of warm sugar water once every 24 hours.
Thus, Meher Baba had now kept silence four times — at Igatpuri (in October 1923), twice in the Jhopdi at Meherabad (during May and November 1924) and now in Bombay.
One night in December, a qawaali program was being held outside the house; Baba listened to the singing the whole night from inside his room. Baba's memory and vocal skill were so acute that the next day he sang the same qawaalis, in their entirety, to the women.
Afterward, he declared in a melodious voice: "One should get so drowned in the love of the Divine Beloved that one is unaware of anything else. There is no rule underlying this Path except for the lover to consider the Divine Beloved's pleasure as his own."
In December 1924, Baba traveled southward to Belgaum with only his uncle Masaji. After a seemingly aimless wandering through the town, they returned to Bombay. Baba's travel was never without some spiritual purpose. At times he would travel hundreds of miles on a train, only to return from that very station to his place of starting — without ever leaving the station. At other times, he would achieve his spiritual work by simply setting foot in a particular place for a few minutes. His work on the inner planes was something quite distinct.
The Universal work done on the inner planes was invisible and impossible to gauge on a physical level. For instance, a spiritual agent was appointed to look after the affairs of an entire city. Communicating with this agent and instructing him regarding the population of the city — whether visibly or invisibly done — obviated the necessity of the Master having to contact every person individually. Therefore, it was difficult to imagine the real purpose for Meher Baba's travels and his constant sudden changes of plans. To understand the work of the Unlimited, one must become unlimited.