Upasni Maharaj happened to come by and caught him resting. Kicking him awake, Maharaj scolded, "Don't you ever let me catch you asleep again! Consider it your sacred duty to prepare paan for Merwan. Have you any idea how fortunate you are to serve Merwan? In the future, you'd better not be so negligent."
During one stage of his "coming down," Baba felt that he was all alone in the universe. He experienced the entire universe existing for him alone. Whatever happened in the universe happened solely for him. His experience was not just that he felt it to be so, but that he actually saw it to be so. For instance, if he saw a man walking, eating or talking, he saw himself and knew that it was he who was walking, eating or talking.
In short, it is impossible to describe the experiences of the "descent" of one who is God-realized and emerges back into the universal creation. What is essential is to comprehend that God-consciousness is totally separate from and transcendent of all the varied aspects of consciousness — mental, subtle, or gross. God-realization is the experience of the very consciousness of God — and of Him alone. It is Absolute Existence — infinite and eternal, because, in fact, nothing exists besides It.
Meher Baba's experiences during the stages of his descent — that he alone as God existed; that the universe was only functioning for him alone; that everything existed because of him; that he was everything; that he was everyone; that he was responsible for everything and everyone; that by his very existence he was meant to help everything and everyone — were distinct stages of higher consciousness involved with his descent through the seven planes into the gross world. He was then, over a period of seven years, gradually becoming more and more conscious of the world and of the purpose of his actual being and identity — his Avatarhood. In divine consciousness there is absolutely nothing that pertains to the universe — there is no consciousness of the existence of the universe, or of anything or anyone else. To the Avatar or Perfect Master, even after completely recovering normal consciousness, the whole universe, which he sees and of which he is in charge, looks like a mere shadow.