Breaking down then, Hussein pleaded with Raosaheb, "Please go tell Baba that I am being forcibly taken away. I can never forget him! Through my tears, I beg Baba not to forget the promise he has given me!" Hussein continued to weep bitterly as the tonga rode off.
How could Hussein's brother appreciate the agony of divine love? He who tastes the divine wine alone knows what joyful suffering there is in love. Meanwhile, most touching of all, Baba, too, had tears in his eyes. Chanji bitterly described it as a "black-letter day for Meherabad."
That night, Baba did not retire in the crypt but remained aloof, telling Rustom not to come up with the visitors for arti at nine o'clock as usual. Baba sat talking in the upper portion of his cabin, discussing Hussein's situation with Raosaheb and Buasaheb. Baba did not sleep much that night, nor did the boys, who stayed awake until 2:00 A.M. Kabir's lines about grinding grain on a handmill are apropos of the pain felt: "At the sight of the grinding stones working, Kabir bursts into tears./ None who is caught between the stones is saved."
What Baba's tears were for no one really knows, but they expressed the deep love he had for the young boys and empathy he felt for the sorrow in their hearts. The other boys who witnessed this scene of their friends being forcibly taken home were sick with worry, fearing that the same fate might befall them.
So the Song Of Wine was muted the next day, on Saturday, 18 February 1928, Baba's 34th birthday. When Ghani, Munshiji, Babu Cyclewalla, Ramjoo, his sister Amina and her husband Abdulla, Sadashiv, Rupamai and Hormusji Karani, and Namdar Dastur arrived in the morning, they found Baba to be in an unpleasant, dejected mood because of the events of the previous evening and his subsequent sleepless night. At first, he actually canceled the whole celebration; but considering how far the visitors had come, he rescinded the order and gave permission for the usual darshan program.
Accordingly, at nine in the morning, his feet were washed, first by the ashram boys and then by the women and men mandali. At eleven o'clock, Gustadji, Rustom, Naval, and Mohan Shahane gave Baba a bath. Darshan concluded with the singing of Baba's arti. The people were asked to go enjoy their lunch. Qawaali and other musical programs were held in the late afternoon until six and again in the night, featuring Abdur Rehman, but the music and singing did not lighten Baba's melancholy mood.