That is why I say that ordinary men have not the foggiest idea what bliss really is. They cannot imagine it.
Then, at eight o'clock, Baba went up the hill to the Water Tank, but returned shortly carrying his bedding. From that night on, he began resting on a raised platform in front of the cabin in Sai Darbar. Baba's stay in the tank had lasted for almost two months, from 3 May to 30 June. Now he began his second stay in Sai Darbar, where he continued writing his mysterious book which he indicated was still incomplete.
Gustadji was in charge of the storeroom located on the Post Office verandah. When Naja, Masaji, the cook Chowdhary, or the women from the Family Quarters required items, they would write their requests on a piece of paper and send it to Gustadji. After he initialed it, the list would be sent to Baba to scrutinize. Baba would initial it and return it to Gustadji who would then issue the items. In this manner a rigid check was placed on all the supplies that were issued from the storeroom at Meherabad.
During this period, Baba would personally look after the health of the women mandali. Relaxing on the verandah of the women's quarters at the Post Office, he would inquire about each one's welfare. According to his order when he was in seclusion, the women were to inform him about their health through written notes. Once Khorshed sent a note to Baba that she had a severe headache. Baba sent one in return instructing her to take a quinine tablet immediately and one when she went to sleep. This remedy proved effective.
Throughout his life, Baba always had a soft spot for animals and did not like to see them suffer.
On 7 July 1926, he saw a gypsy on the road leading a donkey that had a wound on its hind leg. Baba at once stopped what he was doing and went to meet the gypsy. After petting the animal, he persuaded the man to let him take it to the hospital. Baba personally cleaned the wound and applied the medicine and bandaged the donkey's leg.
In addition to the manual labor of grinding millet and wheat for half an hour a day, for the past few months Baba was also washing the clothes of five boys every afternoon. On the 7th, finding the men mandali grinding the grain carelessly and not following the regular schedule, Baba stopped them from this work.