Now he began spending the night in the underground pit (with a flat wooden board cover placed over it) and the day in the upper portion of the cabin.
But that first night at 9:00 P.M., Baba came down the hill unexpectedly in the rickshaw, to the Makan. Adi Sr. had come and was just about to leave in his car after having dinner. Baba spoke with Rustom, Ramjoo, and Dastur, and issued this order: "No teacher or even the principal of the ashram school should touch any of the boys." Although the order seemed quite ordinary, there was a deeper meaning behind it. It was meant to protect the boys from receiving any shock from others at the time of their experiencing an advanced spiritual state. After about an hour, Baba returned to the hill in Adi's car with the mandali.
After this, Baba did not step out of his cabin (the samadhi) for two months and eight days, and during this period he continued his fast on only one pint of coffee per day. In the last days of the fast, he stopped drinking coffee and remained only on water. Mehera would lovingly and meticulously prepare the coffee and warm water with all her heart, but it was more than coffee that was sustaining Baba all these days — it was her love, as well.
Every day for the previous month and a half, the Master would give discourses to the boys, who sat on the raised platform outside the east window of his crypt. His explanations were about the creation, the different worlds, suns, universes, and about sanskaras and the evolution of forms. On Wednesday, 21 December 1927, Baba gave this analogy while explaining the evolution of consciousness and drew a sketch of his description:
There are four stages of light. In stages one, two, and three the sun is not seen due to the sanskaras of darkness. But in the human state, it is morning and the light of the sun is meant to be seen. However, due to the clouds of human sanskaras it is hidden.
So what should be done? The clouds should be driven away. But how? For the clouds to be driven away, burn up your sanskaras — think of me always, love me! And to think of me you must not think of yourself ever!
On 23 December, Baba compared Baidul to Hanuman. During a discourse that evening, Baba pointed out his uncle Masaji as an example to illustrate the soul's progress in evolution: