Baba pointed to a woman standing far back in the crowd and instructed that she be brought to the front to meet him. Baba's summons was delivered by Norina and received by the woman in an embarrassed manner, as neither of them knew the other. The woman apologetically explained that she had come merely to accompany a friend and did not feel inclined to meet Baba. Baba kept signaling that she should come to him. At this, her attitude changed and she walked toward him.
Baba's hand stretched out to her with obvious joy. He had found the needing soul that, for some obscure reason, was unconsciously due to meet him. Standing before Baba, her embarrassment almost grew into a state of confusion which Baba took care of immediately in his benign way.
At his words, "Do not worry. I know everything, and I will take care of you and help you," she involuntarily began sobbing.
The reception continued as the rescued soul disappeared into the crowd.
About a week later, before Norina drove to California with Elizabeth to meet Baba, she received a phone call from a woman she did not know. "I am the woman that you so graciously induced to meet the Master," the woman related. "May I come and see you? Something so wonderful has happened to me!" Norina learned the woman's name was Marian and she was a friend of a friend. She made a date to meet her.
Marian came to Norina's apartment and narrated the sorrowful state of affairs in her family due to the hatred between her and her daughter:
My daughter and I have persecuted each other in hatred for 20 years. I have never been able to understand why, as she was born in love. Neither was I able to overcome a physical detestation for my child. I had never even kissed her!
When the Master asked me to meet him, I did not know why he was calling me. My own unhappiness had become so much a part of my life that I did not even know I was in need of help. When the Master greeted me with so much kindness, I did not remember being impressed in any way, not even to have been able to look at him closely. I was like one in a dream and woke up suddenly as if I had been carried off somewhere by an invisible friend for some good reason. I could not understand what had happened to me.