Occasional "storms" also continued, when Baba would find fault and convey his great dissatisfaction with the way the mandali and teachers were conducting the school. But after severely chastising those involved, the "storm" would pass and the mandali would resume their duties with added diligence.
Throughout August, Baba would sometimes go to Ahmednagar to visit his devotees. On the 27th he went to the cantonment area, at the invitation of Shankarnath's friends and relatives. Baba was received with thundering cheers and conducted to a special seat, from where he gave darshan to almost 600 people. Before returning to Meherabad in the evening, he graced a newly constructed temple nearby.
Baba was discoursing frequently during August. During one occasion, on 30 August, Baba explained the difference between the powers of a God-realized Master and a yogi:
Miracles are generally attributed to Avatars, Sadgurus, or Realized human beings, while occult powers belong to yogis. The former is the outcome of extremely high and unselfish motives, while for the latter the mainspring is invariably the worst kind of selfishness. An Avatar or Sadguru performs miracles when he intends to give a general push to the world toward spirituality, but a yogi generally enacts his supernatural powers to serve his own ends.
For example, a child is tightly holding a parrot by the neck to the point of strangling it. Now in order to save the bird's life it will not be advisable to try to snatch it from the hands of its young captor, because there is the chance of his tightening his grasp. The child must therefore be offered a coin, which will induce him to let go of the parrot. In this instance, the offering of the coin represents performing a miracle, and rescuing the parrot from the child's grip means saving the mind from ignorance and maya's grip. Such is the way of Avatars and Sadgurus. However, if a yogi sees a very beautiful woman and desires her, he will materialize gold jewelry in order to attract her. Obviously there is a world of difference between the motives of the Avatar or Sadguru and those of a yogi.
During this period, Baba directed that a tennis court be laid out at Meherabad, on which he himself played on 28 August and again the following evening. Baba would also regularly participate in cricket matches and games of atya-patya with the mandali. He played cricket without shin guards, and once had to retire from a match when he was struck twice by the ball.