Afterward, Baba explained the poem: "The blossoming of the mustard seed represents God-realization; the seed, itself, represents the soul. Hence, when the seed moved the mountain, I became divinely conscious, and simultaneously the soul engulfed the mountain of my ego. The beauty of the Lord is ineffable; yet, it is seen — it is experienced."
During 1925, Jagannath Gangaram Jakkal, 36, whom everyone called Anna (elder brother), joined the mandali. Anna was originally from Sholapur, where his family owned a printing press and published a newspaper, and they also had property in Ahmednagar. Anna's duty was to do the marketing for the Meherabad community, riding back and forth each day on his bicycle to Ahmednagar. On 28 June, he had not returned from the market by midnight. Concerned, Baba and the mandali set out to look for him, and on the way Maruti Patil found a notebook which belonged to Anna.
It turned out that thieves had surrounded Anna on his way back to Meherabad and robbed him of everything he had bought. He had been severely beaten and had returned to his house in Ahmednagar. When Baba and the men reached Anna's home, they found him lying in bed with bandages wrapped around his head.
Baba asked, "What happened?"
In a daze, Anna stammered, "Baba, 104 ... 104!"
Baba repeated the question two or three times, but the only thing Anna would say was, "Baba! 104!" What Anna meant was that his temperature was 104°. Baba called for a doctor and arranged for his treatment. After he recovered, Baba would recount with humor Anna's feverish utterances and subsequently nicknamed him Anna 104.
Although it had been announced by mail that no outsiders should come to Meherabad after 1 July, a group of Parsi politicians came to see Meher Baba on Thursday, 2 July. After discussing with them the political and spiritual situation of India, the Master discoursed about the mind and body. This was to be his last recorded verbal discourse:
Human excrement is totally useless; only swine eat it. Similarly, when the flesh is cut from a carcass, only bones remain and these are thrown to the dogs. Man's mind is like flesh, and his body is like the bones.
A person eats flesh [meat] and digests it, which means he uses it. But the bones are inedible and of no use; so he gives them to dogs, who can chew and utilize them.