Baidul found a mast called Muhammad Mastan in a lane near Anderson Street. The mast would continually tear up his clothes and then sew them back together again.
Baba wished to contact him, and on July 24th, (1945) Eruch and Baidul took the mast inside a nearby office, which happened to be a bank. Eruch spoke with the manager, explaining that his elder brother (Baba) wanted to be alone with Mastan for some time. Eruch said, “He would greatly appreciate it if you would allow him to use this room for a few minutes.” The understanding official immediately agreed, and ordered the cashiers, clerks and other staff to leave the premises. He, too, went outside, and Baba entered the bank and worked with Muhammad Mastan.
This was a remarkable contact: to work with a mast in a bank where the employees were ordered out to the street and stop their work. Currency notes and cheques were left lying on the table unguarded while the staff stood outside. How could unwitting people be so favorably impressed to permit such a thing? But to one such as Baba, no one was unfamiliar or unknown.
Baba also worked with the spiritual chargeman of Madras, Maulvi Saheb, a fiery jalali mast who appeared a very ill-tempered dirty old fat man, but was indeed the leading spiritual figure in the city. Baba was not completely satisfied with the contact, because there were so many inquisitive spectators who would not go away.
There were other memorable masts, such as Ram Swurup, who was completely naked and had absolutely no body consciousness. He lived in a cluster of neglected temples and would eat the worst of things. Baba fed him and stayed with him for a long hour.
One naked sadhu whom Baba encountered repeated over and over again the same thing: “Sab ham Khuda hain … Sab ham Khuda hain!” – “We are all God … We are all God!”
A mahbubi type, Qadir Badshah, wore an array of bangles on his arms. Unusual for a mast, he was always in a happy mood.
On his way back to Hyderabad, Baba stopped at Raichur on July 26th, where the mandali gathered forty of the poorest destitutes. Keeping his identity secret, Baba washed their feet and bowed down to these forty destitutes, handed them three rupees each as prasad. After this work, he left and was back in Hyderabad the following day.
Lord Meher, Original Publication, Bhau Kalchuri, Vol. 8, p. 3052.