"Yes, Baba," he admitted candidly.

"You have been in my contact for so many years and still you accept bribes? Such corruption is not at all good. Give it up completely."

Turekar accepted Baba's wish and promised to change.

In a lighter vein, Baba asked Gadekar, "Do you fight with Gunatai your wife?"

"Never, Baba. She fights with me!" he insisted.

"She is teaching you forbearance. You are in her debt."

Baba then asked Shinde about his business and stated, "Don't worry; I have my nazar (eye) on you."

After this meeting, all returned to their homes in Poona. Gradually Shinde's business flourished, and he became a leading merchant of Poona.

But, as the years passed, the Kambles still did not beget children. Kamble came to see Baba again in 1952 and Baba asked him, "Are you a parent yet?"

Kamble answered sadly, "No, not yet, Baba."

"Don't you have faith in me? You will have a child, but have patience." Baba then gave him a rose petal to eat. Two years elapsed and when Kamble again saw Baba in Pandharpur in 1954, the same topic came up. Baba chided him, "Be patient, for God's sake! Why are you in such a hurry?"

Soon after this meeting, Kamble's wife, Leelavati, gave birth to a son. Baba named him Meher Prasad; thus, after Baba's distribution of prasad to the poor in 1948, Kamble too received Baba's prasad – though it happened six years later.

Ramjoo Abdulla's entire family loved Baba, and Ramjoo always sought Baba's advice about any family problem. Ramjoo and his family had left Nasik and moved to Ahmednagar two years earlier, in 1946. He had seven children: five sons – Dadu, Baggu, Ali, Meheru (Meher Ahmed) and Isa – and two daughters.

When Ali graduated from high school, Ramjoo brought him to Baba one day at the Ice Factory bungalow. Baba asked Ali, "Do you want to study further? Do you want to go to college?"

Ali said no and Baba asked, "What do you want to do?"

"I'm not sure," he replied. "Whatever I feel like doing, I will."

"If you do so you will fall into a ditch! Do as I tell you," Baba advised.