Kaikhushru Masa and Soonamasi returned to Bombay temporarily on 4 July. (Their daughter Khorshed remained with the women mandali.) The following day, the Shahane family moved back to the Family Quarters, and Baba resumed his Thursday tea-sessions there. (He went at other times, as well.) Shankarnath was transferred to the Meher Ashram staff, and Burjor Sarkari (the young thief from Poona) was appointed to do the office work in the Hazrat Babajan High School.
Commenting on newspaper reports of communal riots in Calcutta, Baba observed:
It is simply madness and foolishness on the parts of both Hindus and Muslims to break each other's head and injure and insult each other's religion in the very name of religion! Any religion that allows violating the sacred sentiment of another religion is not worth its name.
The work of conversion, turning a Hindu into a Mohammedan or vice versa, is equally silly and senseless. The increase in numbers of followers of a particular religion is no indication of the greatness or value of it. The struggle for religious supremacy is nothing but rank irreligion .
The real reason underlying these communal riots, as well as the general restlessness all over the world, is due to the coming approach of the spiritual outburst that takes place at long intervals. It will all end in unity and peace. You feel great discomfort and pain in the abdomen before having an unusually satisfactory [bowel] motion! It is just like that. These very disturbances are the indication of the coming peace. The combination of Islam, Hinduism, and Zoroastrianism in my personality is not a coincidence. It has great significance!
On 10 July 1927, Gulabsha became upset over something and did not wish to eat.
Baba pacified him with these encouraging words, "Don't take to heart when you are annoyed by others. Eat and drink regularly. Ramakrishna once washed the feet of a person who kicked the great Master! Be a man and resist momentary passions! Don't fall down like a weak tree tottering against a strong but passing gale."
K. J. Dastur returned from Bombay on 8 July and informed Baba that he was prepared to work at Meherabad for a salary of Rs.1,000 for six months. Baba accepted and immediately had him paid Rs.200 in advance. Dastur again left for Bombay and was back three days later. Bobo, Baily, and Babu Cyclewalla from Poona came that day, 11 July, which was the Muslim festival of Moharrum.