Raosaheb's charges were also shifted to the Family Quarters on 8 November, and Kaka Shahane's family moved into Bomanji's former quarters.
From Thursday, 10 November 1927, Baba went on a prolonged liquid fast of coffee and milk, continuing it for almost five and a half months. The anniversary of the dhuni was celebrated that evening with the mandali and boys gathering around the dhuni as it was lit. Bhajans were performed by Bhausaheb in front of the Table, under which Baba was seated. After the ceremony was concluded, there was a steady rain for three days after a long gap without rain — true to Baba's prediction just a few days before.
Heavy showers the next afternoon caused Baba to be delayed on the hill and he sat in the dining hall. He took the opportunity to find fault with many. As Chanji (one of those faulted) noted: "Baba was like a lizard, waiting and watching for its prey, which quite unawares would be pounced upon and come [captured] in its very jaws."
On 12 November, the boys were taken to Baba in small groups. Because it was raining, Baba washed their feet and wiped them dry with a towel. He gave them quinine tablets to prevent them from catching a cold. Nisal was taken to task for not bringing the senior boys first and he was ordered to slap himself.
Dastur brought up a complaint about the other teachers, maintaining that they were causing so much noise that he was disturbed in his own classroom. Baba had his class moved some distance away from the others.
Rustom Dinyar Irani of Bombay had met Baba years before in Poona, at the toddyshop in Kasba Peth, and had also visited Baba at Manzil-e-Meem. In 1922, he introduced his cousin, Kharmen Masi to Baba at Manzil-e-Meem. At the time, Kharmen was married and had three sons, but she was unhappy as her husband was prone to violence. After some years, the husband died and Baba encouraged her to accept a marriage proposal from Rustom Dinyar, which she did.
Rustom Dinyar arrived at Meherabad on the 12th with two of Kharmen's sons, Homi and Sarosh, who were kept in the ashram and enrolled in the school. Their younger brother, Merwan, would join them later.
To his surprise, Meherjee Karkaria failed his engineering exam. Therefore he came to stay at Meherabad on 14 November, and Baba appointed him the English teacher. Baily arrived from Poona, also, and stayed for five days.
That same day Baba relieved Padri of teaching Persian, and Baba himself began teaching the class, communicating through the alphabet board which Raosaheb would read out to the students. Although it appeared that Baba was teaching Persian, there was a greater significance underlying his playing the role of a teacher while silent. The Master was pouring wine through his glances, creating a thirst for God in the children. Besides being the recipients of the Master's divine love, the students received a high standard of worldly education, learning in one month what would normally have taken one year to learn elsewhere.