To entertain Baba and the ashram boys, Baidul, Buasaheb, Dhake, Dastur, Masaji, Nadirsha, Pendu, Raosaheb, Mehrabanpur, Subnis, and Namdar staged a play that evening.
Baba loved Kaka Shahane's family very much and had accepted responsibility for the maintenance of the family and the education of the seven children. On 10 August, Mohan Shahane left the ashram to further his higher education. He and Gadekar had both been serving as teachers in the school. Baba did not wish Mohan to leave, but the young man was not deeply drawn to the spiritual life and wished to attend graduate school to pursue a master's degree. He had only been staying in the ashram to fulfill his father's promise to Baba, which was that after Mohan's college graduation he would stay with Baba for six months, and that period had now expired.
Baba revealed to Kaka Shahane, "If Mohan stays with me, he will become internationally famous," but Mohan decided to go his own way and left Baba for the rest of his life.
When Mohan was leaving, Baba turned to Chhagan and Padri and remarked sadly, "He will not see me again for 700 years."
On Saturday, 11 August 1928, the Collector (Chief Administrative Officer) of Ahmednagar, A. M. Macmillan, paid a visit to the ashram especially to meet the three Europeans, Meredith Starr and the two ladies. The man was quite impressed that Britishers would migrate to India to join a spiritual ashram.
That same day Aga Ali's father Haji Muhammad again returned, demanding that he be allowed to take his son away "only for a few days." It seems that Jamshed Afseri, who had been recently sent from the ashram, had gone to Bombay and was instigating opposition against Baba and the school. The resentful boy was spreading all sorts of false statements about what was happening in Toka; he claimed to have personally witnessed and suffered the cruelty of the mandali, teachers and staff of the institution. Baba was always indifferent to such slander.
When this news about Jamshed was conveyed, Ramjoo remembered Baba having remarked to him in April, "Jamshed is not what he appears. He will prove a traitor."
Baba's words were coming true.
For two days and nights, the mandali tried to reason with Haji, but the old man refused to allow his son to remain at Toka. Finally, the mandali reminded him of the agreement he had signed, and they refused to cancel it unless he compensated Baba for the expense of the boy's education, lodging, and boarding to date.