Time and again we were reminded, through the incidents of our daily lives, of the relationship between Jesus and his disciples, between Krishna and the gopis, and of various incidents in the Mahabharata, all of which seemed reenacted against a modern background.
A deeper love than we had ever known was kindled in our hearts. A greater bliss than we had ever experienced dissolved the limitations of the personal self and led us out unto Universal consciousness. Habits of thought and emotion and action, which we had struggled to eliminate for years, disappeared without effort overnight. We became aware, through the circumstances arising in our daily lives, of both our greatest strengths and our greatest weaknesses, and in some strange way we were given the power to use the strengths to overcome the weaknesses.
And in Shri Meher Baba himself, we witnessed constantly the manifestation of perfection in every department of life — one power flowing swiftly and continually differently to respond to every necessity of life. One feels as if all the power in the universe were resident in that slight form which is Baba's physical vehicle, and yet one realizes that it is being released ever so gently, in perfect response to each individual need.
Here, again incarnate, we began to realize, was a being such as Jesus, such as Krishna, whose very presence overwhelmed the soul with a love which was beyond its comprehension and grasp, whose coming unto the world at present was again as it was in the time of Jesus and of Krishna for the purpose of ushering in a new consciousness, and, through that consciousness, a new order of being.
The reason for his short visit to this country at this time was the establishment of certain contacts here, to prepare the way for his second coming, which will be at the time of his great manifestation, in the spring of 1932, when the present growing crisis in world affairs will be at its greatest height.
You and I and many others have been growing into that consciousness — have been working for the establishment of that new order of being — for a long time. Now the fruits of our common labors are about to be realized. When Shri Meher Baba returns to this country in the spring and begins to speak, breaking the silence which he has maintained for seven years and beginning his period of public manifestation, what we experienced, on a small scale, will be duplicated on a vast scale.