To understand what Merwan had undergone during the past eight years is to understand the process of Realization and Perfection. After Babajan's kiss in January 1914, Merwan had attained God-consciousness; his inner state was that of a majzoob — one drowned in infinity. For almost two years, creation had not existed for him — neither in his individual mind nor in any manner or form whatsoever. Merwan's consciousness was divine — it was infinite, perfect — but he had no mastery of all-knowledge, all-power, and all-bliss. Merwan was conscious of infinite light, and was Light Itself, but was totally unconscious of Its shadow (the creation) — his own self and the world.
As the Avatar, God had descended into the body of Merwan Irani from His beyond state of God the Absolute. Merwan never passed through the processes of evolution, reincarnation and involution prior to his birth. The five Perfect Masters of the Age brought him down into the form of Merwan from his formless state of God. But from 1894 to 1914, the five Perfect Masters veiled him from his own divinity. Babajan's gentle kiss tore away that protective veil of vidnyani sanskaras, and, within minutes, he became once more infinitely aware of his Real Self as Eternal Existence. However, after Babajan's kiss, simultaneously with the attainment of divine consciousness, Merwan lost every tinge of normal human consciousness. He had a human body that acted automatically, but he had no awareness of that body. He was only conscious of being infinite knowledge, infinite power, and infinite bliss.
All five Perfect Masters play a direct or indirect role in bringing the Avatar into creation, forming a veil of vidnyani sanskaras; then revealing his God-consciousness and bringing him back down to function perfectly on all planes and on all levels of consciousness. It was through Babajan that Merwan attained infinite bliss; through Sai Baba that he attained infinite power; and through Upasni Maharaj that he attained infinite knowledge. Narayan Maharaj and Tajuddin Baba played direct roles in bringing him into creation also, but indirect roles in bringing him down after he was God-realized. Upasni Maharaj played the most direct role: When Maharaj struck Merwan with the stone at their initial encounter, it was the first time in nearly two years that Merwan experienced an iota of gross consciousness. It was during the subsequent seven-year contact with Upasni Maharaj that Merwan fully regained his "lost" individual human consciousness while simultaneously being God-conscious.