Not one student seemed to be paying any attention to the lessons, which seemed rather peculiar to the new teacher.
A tragic event at Meherabad afflicted one of the teachers. Ramchandra Gadekar and his wife Yashoda had come to live at Meherabad where both served as teachers in the schools. Baba had given Gadekar orders not to touch his wife. Yashoda would rise early in the morning and work all day. She was very devout, and in obedience to Baba's instruction, she would recite his name many times in the small room where they lived. But after nine months, Yashoda became extremely distraught. She fought badly with her husband and late one night, ran away and committed suicide by jumping in a well near the railway tracks.
Baba began giving spiritual discourses to the boys every evening from 23 November 1927. He would "talk," dictating his explanations on the alphabet board for almost two hours at a stretch. He would be seated inside, in the upper portion of his underground crypt-room, and the boys and mandali would gather outside on the platform by the east window. At times, Baba would use hand gestures also to convey his thoughts. Every silent word touched each heart as his words were suffused with wine.
While discoursing, Baba would explain the purpose of creation, the stages of evolution and involution, the subtle and mental planes, and the heavens (sections of the planes). He also explained the universe's innumerable suns, moons and planets; the evolving states of gas, stone, metal, vegetable, worm, fish, bird, animal and human forms; the states after death — heaven and hell; yogis, saints, gurus and the Avatar; God-intoxication and masts, divine love and devotion; and many other spiritual points. He would explain everything in such an unassuming, easy but interesting manner that not only would the boys understand it completely, but simultaneously their hearts would open, and they would become restless in the turmoil of love. Gradually, divine intoxication began overpowering them and, from the worldly standpoint, they began to act in strange ways.
The students clearly found a vast difference between the lectures of Borker and Angal Pleader and the discourses of Meher Baba. As a consequence, they began to pay little attention to the teachers' utterances and desired only to be near the Master and concentrate on what he revealed. Within days, Meherabad's atmosphere underwent a complete metamorphosis: The wine began "speaking" with the inception of the Master's silent evening discourses.