Padri's mother Freiny Masi met Baba at Meherabad on Sunday, 7 August 1927 and informed Baba that Colonel Irani had had their younger brother Rustom committed to a mental asylum. Baba assured Freiny Masi that there was nothing serious about Rustom's temporary mental condition — but that if he were left in the asylum he would go insane! Baba had a letter written to Dinshaw M. Irani to use his influence to have Rustom released.
Freiny Masi was also worried about her son (Padri's elder brother) Rusi, who had been one of Baba's classmates and who was then in America . She hadn't received any letter from him in some time. Baba assured her that she would hear from him soon and that he would also visit.
"I want to see him when he does," Baba said. "Cheer up, Mother. Everything and everyone will be quite all right."
Rusi was studying to be an engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, and Baba said he would pass his exams and prosper if he went to Persia, where there was a large mining industry, rather than settle in India. (He ended up living in America for the rest of his life.)
That day, regarding a proposal to have Baba's discourses published in various monthly magazines, Baba remarked:
It is not advisable to send my notes, lectures, and discourses for editing to any writer or editor who is away from me. The writer must be here in order to ensure correctness. For example, Dastur took notes of certain of my explanations in writing the other day, yet while putting the same in his own language, he made a mess of it! My explanations may be recomposed in forceful and stylish language, but the spirit and meaning must remain unchanged. Such a writer will come in the due course of time. Dastur writes well but his uncompromising tone and terms are likely to offend some communities.
Concluding, in reference to his own book, which no one had been allowed to read, Baba remarked:
The big book I have written will be the future Bible, Koran, Avesta, and Veda, as it will be universally accepted by all castes and creeds. I have stopped writing anything after finishing this great work and hence it has force.
Three weeks later, Baba told Dastur:
Never before have spiritual secrets been revealed in such a way as I have written them. Hindu scriptures, no doubt, touch on some of these points here and there and explain them to a certain extent, which is not found in other scriptures. But I have revealed spirituality in direct and clear terms, explaining it all in plain language. In the future, this work will be the Universal Scripture for the world.
On Monday, 8 August 1927, the first hint of the transformation that was to occur in the schoolchildren manifested when one of the boys whom Baidul had brought from Persia, sixteen-year-old Espandiar Vesali, requested Baba, "Please exempt me from studies because I can't stop thinking of you. I can't put my mind in my lessons. Before my eyes is only Baba; in my dreams, I see only Baba. Except for you, I have no other interest in life. I want to go toward God — toward knowing God."