Haridasbabu entreated the Swami to stay longer at Khandwa. The reply was: "I wish I could do so. Everyone is so kind, but I must be on my way to Rameswaram, to do the pilgrimage I have in mind. But if I go on in this way, halting for weeks in each town, it will never be done." Seeing that he was determined to leave, his host gave him a letter of introduction to his brother in Bombay, and said, "He will introduce you to Seth Ramdas Chhabildas, a noted barrister of Bombay [who later travelled with the Swami to Chicago from Yokohama]. Perhaps he will be able to help you. Really, Swamiji, you have a great future before you." "Well," the Swami replied, "I myself do not know; but my Master used to predict many things concerning me." Leaving many friends and ad-mirers in Khandwa, and promising to return one day, he left for Bombay by train. His host had asked him to go by train and had bought him a ticket. He reached Bombay in the last week of July 1892.