After a few moments of silence, Watson revealed, "In my 77 years of life, today is the first time I have experienced what divine love is. I have come to realize this with just a touch from Meher Baba."
Chanji said, "Such a privilege is bestowed on very few."
As Age recounted, "Without Watson's asking, Baba had rocked the ground of his being. Watson's heart blossomed and he saw a new light — the Light that dispels the darkness of ages.
"It was wonderful how the Master's work was manifesting. He was forging a link with Watson for a plan which, up to now, Baba had not revealed. Baba was planning on going to America from England and Watson was to be his medium for arranging it."
Baba's small room was above the lobby entrance facing south, overlooking the valley of Combe Martin. Meredith would conduct visitors up to the room for short interviews with Baba, yet Meredith still insisted on the usual routine of four hours of meditation per day. Meditation persisted, despite the fact that the Master — the object of their meditation — was with them in physical form. Despite the somber regimen, Baba did manage to slip away and meet with the mandali in the dairy barn where Chanji and Rustom were staying, though Meredith tried to prevent this also.
Baba went to the barn very early the next morning and sat on one of the cots discussing matters with them for some time. Herbert, Chanji and Rustom shared the room, while Aga Ali stayed with Baba in the main house.
Later that morning, it rained while Baba met with each person individually. A versatile personality, Charles Benjamin Purdom, 48, author, drama critic, accountant, and editor of a magazine called Everyman , had visited Devonshire earlier that year on holiday and had been corresponding with Meredith. Upon meeting Baba, Purdom said, "I feel that something like a stone has entered my heart and is stuck there without dissolving. I am now terribly confused as to what it is."
Baba dictated, "It is the outcome of the spiritual current and rays of the spiritual atmosphere here."
He gestured for Purdom to sit beside him. After a few minutes, Baba asked how he felt.
"Good; peaceful and calmer," Purdom said.
Purdom later wrote in Everyman of his experiences with Meher Baba:
I have been brought by what seems like chance (but no doubt deserves some other name) into personal contact with a Perfect Master from the East ... His eyes are large and beaming, lighting up his face which radiates happiness.