What if you were blindfolded — how would you proceed? I will hold your hand and tell you where to put your foot since I see each and everything. My eyes are always open. Despite all this, if you do not hold my hand, how am I to guide you? To hold my hand means to do as I say. Therefore, I am telling you daily to always listen to me and to think of me constantly with all your heart. Then see what untold benefit you derive.
Jalbhai, Baidul, and Chhagan were responsible for looking after the boys.
On the afternoon of 18 October, Baba informed them, "For proper meditation the stomach should be light."
This implied that there was to be a change in the boys' diet. From then on, for breakfast, tea and chapatis were served; for lunch, rice and dal; and at dinner, tea and chapatis again. (Vegetables were eliminated from their diet for some days.) Baba also outlined a new timetable to go into effect from that night:
2:00 A.M. — Wake up
2:00 to 3:00 A.M. — Weak tea after a wash
3:00 to 6:00 A.M. — Meditation
6:00 to 6:30 A.M. — Tea and chapati
6:30 to 7:00 A.M. — Rest
7:00 to 8:00 A.M. — Meditation
8:00 to 9:00 A.M. — Discourse by Baba
9:00 to 10:30 A.M. — Sleep
10:30 to 12:00 — Bath (when no bath, do as Baba directs)
12:00 to 1:00 P.M. — Lunch
1:00 to 2:00 P.M. — Rest
2:00 to 5:00 P.M. — School (With an interval from 3:30 -3:50 for medicine, etc.)
5:00 to 6:30 P.M. — Some game or playing
6:30 to 7:00 P.M. — Rest
7:00 to 8:00 P.M. — Dinner
8:00 to 9:00 P.M. — To be near Baba
9:00 P.M. — Retire
Baba would sometimes walk to the river with the boys where they would bathe. Chhota Baba, who had regained some of his physical strength and was nearly normal-conscious by now, was told to teach the younger boys how to swim. On the 19th, Chhota Baba was ordered to fast on liquids, which he did until Baba broke his fast five days later.
At 6:30 that evening the boys gathered around Baba. Some began joking, however, and Baba became very annoyed that they were not paying attention to him. Baba made James Titus stand up and asked him why he was laughing. He replied that he was laughing at what Bhiwa had done.