Deshmukh saw Gandhi at his ashram in Wardha on the 15th, but Gandhi still did not accept "non-violent violence" and clung to his own rigid outlook.
At the end of April, Baba sent Chanji back to Delhi to contact other influential persons who had spiritual inclinations, and disseminate his messages to them. Baba particularly wished to contact Colonel Louis Johnson, President Roosevelt's special envoy from America. Chanji gave him the messages and he promised to study them. (Messages were also mailed to prominent Indian personalities such as Aurobindo.)
Pilamai came from Karachi and brought Baba two parrots, a male and a female. The male did not live long, but the female, named Mittu , lived and traveled with Baba and the women for the next few years.
Although Keki Nalavala was a resident of Dehra Dun and already loved Meher Baba, he was not permitted to see Baba and had only seen Baba's feet once, a year ago — that too from a distance! Keki Desai of Delhi had likewise come to meet Baba in Jaipur in 1941, but had not been allowed even to see his feet. Baba's coquettishness, however, served its purpose, and on Chanji's request Baba agreed to give darshan to the two Kekis in the mandali's bungalow, but only for one minute. Also permitted to come with them was Adi Noras, a friend of Keki Desai, whose residence was in Navsari but who was working in Dehra Dun. All three were warned beforehand neither to fold their hands, garland, bow down to, or speak to Baba.
They came on Tuesday, 14 April 1942 and were led to Baba's small, ten-foot by ten-foot room. A curtain had been drawn across the room. As Keki Nalavala recalled: "We were made to stand before the small curtained room as stage actors stand on the stage before the curtain is lifted." At exactly 2:00 P.M. the curtain was drawn aside revealing Baba sitting cross-legged in a corner with Jal Kerawalla. "The curtain had been raised, not only in the room," Age observed, "but from their minds and hearts too!"
They had been forbidden to say anything to Baba. But it did not matter, because when they stood in his presence they were so overcome, they could not have said anything even if they had wanted to. Nalavala remembered seeing "the glittering sight of the rising Sun" and being "dumbed, mummed and stunned!"