The feelings and overflow of emotions must be controlled, checked, and gradually turned into submission, to enable one to be set upon the Path. Such uncontrolled outbursts of feelings will otherwise lead a person into awkward situations. He will not advance a whit along the Path, but on the contrary, will make himself a laughingstock in the world. If the same is not checked in time, a person is likely to really go mad and pass his remaining life in a lunatic asylum.
True, those who get such outbursts of feeling have a loving nature and a bent of mind toward the Truth, but, as I said, the same should be checked. If not, in the course of time it proves an empty show, as has been the case with Waman Subnis and Kisan Master. Both had an outburst of feelings which they were unable to check, exhibiting a great show of love and asceticism, but soon became their old selves, once again involved in worldly affairs.
Baba instructed Gustadji, who was living on the Jhopdi verandah, to make a garden around Baba's room to be called Meher Garden . From 10 June, the small two-wheeled bullock cart in which Baba would sometimes roam about Meherabad, was used to bring flowerpots for the planned garden. Baba had previously called the cart the Punjab Mail , but now he renamed it the Meherabad Special . He sat in it that day and rode in it to Meher Ashram in the Family Quarters, and once even went to Ahmednagar in it.
Night games of atya-patya were a regular feature of life at Meherabad then. The mandali and Baba would sometimes play until ten o'clock by the light of the Petromax lantern.
Baba graced Dr. Sathe's residence in Ahmednagar on Friday, 10 June 1927, for the thread ceremony of one of his relatives, and then went to Raya's home. Three of Baba's women devotees — Sadashiv's mother-in-law Gajabai Dokey, Vishnu's mother Kakubai, and Naval's mother-in-law Rupamai Karani — arrived the same morning and spent the night. Rupamai's sons, Banaji, fifteen, and Dinsi, twelve, were admitted to Meher Ashram.
The Muslim festival of Bakri-Id was celebrated on the 11th. The school was closed for half a day, and at 3:00 P.M. Baba presented the Muslim students with new clothes. He distributed sweets to all the children.
Before entering his room the next afternoon at two o'clock, Baba remarked to Jalbhai, "When the rain stops, I will come out of the Jhopdi."