Mattragiri was a tall and bony yogi, naked except for his loincloth. There was no doubt of his great age, yet his hair was black without a streak of gray, and his skin shone a deep dark color. His eyes were deep set and his glance was most penetrating. Unlike Ilai Swami's piercing eyes, this yogi's gaze did not disturb one in the least, because when he looked at one, one felt it was "the glance of a saint."

On 27 March, Baba contacted a mast called Ganpat in Abu Road. He stayed under a tree outside the town. Baba took him to a nearby well, bathed him, clothed him in a new lungi and gave him his own silk coat and some rupees. Pleased with these contacts, Baba returned to Mount Abu.

Don was sent to Meherabad at this time with certain instructions, one of which was to bring back Rano's best pair of sunglasses for Baba to use on his mast tours. He was told to return after two weeks, on 15 April.

On Tuesday, 29 March 1949, Baba walked two miles to the village of Dilwara near Mount Abu. There he worked with an old yogi named Bengali Baba, who had been living in a cave for the past 40 years.

In Mount Abu, Baba contacted another mast, called Haridas Baba Nirvan. He was an old mast, bent over, and naked except for a ragged loincloth. He sat, even in the most wretched conditions, on a stone platform near Nakki Lake. While Baba sat with him there, Haridas wept and wept, referring to himself as "Ishwar [God]'s dog!"

Overcome by some hidden painful emotion, Haridas clutched to Baba's side for fifteen minutes before he would allow him to leave.

Some years before, a couple from Ahmednagar had gone to live in France, where a son was born to them. Tragedy befell, as the father died a short time after the child's birth. The mother was grief-stricken and in a pitiable condition. When Baba heard about it, he instructed certain lovers in Europe to help her, whereupon she came back to Ahmednagar with the child. Baba nicknamed the boy Frenchy, and he was taken under Baba's wing and his education was provided for by Baba. Baba asked the boy to stay in his company for one month every year, to which the boy and his mother agreed.