"To demonstrate my respect," he stated.
Baba embraced him for four or five minutes, and Dastur was able to stop crying. He was taken to his room by Beheram where he fell asleep. Soon he awoke and called for Buasaheb, saying that blood had risen to his brain and was clotting. This was what Baba had previously mentioned to the mandali. The ashram doctor was summoned immediately and ordered to give Dastur an enema. While taking it, Dastur told the doctor, "Take out my blood so that I may wash Shri's feet with it!"
It was amazing to the mandali that this intellectual author and lawyer, who had hesitated even to sit on the ground while talking to Baba when he had first come to Meherabad, was now uninhibitedly rolling in the dust and weeping. Dastur became unmindful of the others around him and of the adverse weather conditions. During a rainstorm on the 3rd, he had become drenched while sitting on the ground by Baba's gaadi.
Baba later commented about Dastur:
He has earned what he has received. But even now, what he has experienced is very little. It is nothing compared with the real sight and Union. He has only glimpsed the divine light and even this seeing is not permanent. If he endures the strain, I will make it permanent. Otherwise, if his power of seeing stops, he will have to struggle and suffer terribly. Because now that he has actually tasted my wine, if his mind strays, the agony will be so severe he may be driven insane, leave the body, or commit suicide.
But if he stands the strain, he will then see me in this light and that will be permanent. And, if he is fortunate enough to see that and me, being a university-educated man who holds advanced degrees, he will create havoc [be a force to reckon with]. For he will speak with actual experience of what he has seen, more authoritatively and more forcibly than others without experience.
Sailor and Sadashiv arrived on the morning of Sunday, 5 February 1928, but both left that evening after meeting Baba privately. Sailor was instructed to return to Meherabad on Baba's birthday and stay for some days. The same day, Gopal Swamy came out of the Sadhak Ashram, saying he had received all that he desired and now wished to leave. Baba permitted it.
The next evening at 5:00 P.M., after coming out of the toilet, Baba mentioned the possibility of fasting and going into seclusion for seven days before his birthday.