From among you boys, I am going to immediately advance a few who are ready to be consumed in the light of love! So make your hearts restless to taste this wine of love. But your efforts should not be forced; they should be natural.
During your spare time, exclusive of study, meals, rest, and play periods, create love by remembering me. Ask yourself again and again: When will the Master put me in the line? When will I see God and be united with God? What lies there in the Path?
Several times in the course of the day, Baba would embrace, kiss or pat the boys. He would play with them, serve them food, and also visit their quarters during the night, covering any uncovered boy with a blanket.
Regarding the school and ashram, Baba remarked to Chanji, "Why all this bother? It is just to create a few real lovers of God and one real hero. And for only that, such a big headache! You will never be able to understand. So all should simply obey my orders and do as I instruct, like Rustom, who has left all and is doing his duty here just to fulfill my will and orders."
In spite of spending the major portion of his time with the schoolchildren, Baba would also be attentive to the duty of each mandali member and would supervise everything minutely. Daulatmai and her daughter Mehera, Naja, Soonamasi and her daughter Small Khorshed, Dolly, and Baba's sister-in-law, Big Khorshed, were the women mandali staying at Meherabad at this time, and Gulmai would come every day from Ahmednagar to share in their work.
As mentioned, Baba was fasting on liquids during this period. Mehera would prepare a flask of coffee and milk, sending it to Baba on the hill with a thirteen-year-old boy named Lahu. Because of his prolonged fast, drinking only coffee twice a day, Mehera beseeched Baba not to tire himself by walking up and down the hill. (He was still retiring for the night in the Jhopdi at lower Meherabad.) Baba gave in to her request and sat in the hand-drawn rickshaw while coming down the hill. Strangely enough, while on the hill, Baba was observed to be quite energetic and active, moving about from place to place, even vigorously playing cricket and other games with the ashram boys.
One evening in late November, Baba gave this discourse to the mandali and students regarding Realization of the members of a Perfect Master's circle: