He fasted throughout those ten hours and drank another cup of Ovaltine in the evening. Mehera and Mani were not called that day, and neither was Kaka during Baba's ten hours alone.
Monday, 1 August 1949, was a red-letter day in Meherazad. All the Meherabad mandali, as well as other Meherabad residents, including Naggu, Sushila, Sarwar, Najoo and Hilla Kotwal (who were on holiday from school), little Gorakhnath, and many from Ahmednagar were to be present at Meherazad before seven o'clock that morning. Those who were invited included Sarosh, his wife Viloo, Meherjee Mama and Homi Mama Satha, Savak Damania, Cawas and Rusi Damania, and their mother Shirin, Ramjoo, Dhake, Soonamasi, Rusi Pop, Dattu, Rustom Kaka and Silla Kaku, Adi Sr., Gulmai and daughter Piroja, Bhagirath, Pandoba, Goma Ganesh, Adi Jr. and his wife Franey. No one was to eat breakfast or take tea before arriving. All the men and women had been observing silence for one month, and they were to break it in Baba's presence when he stepped out of seclusion. Sarosh was the only one who had been exempted from being on silence because of his political involvements and work.
No one was to fold their hands or bow to Baba, utter any word or even shout " Jai !" They were to break their silence after a prayer was read out by saying "Amen." The men were to stay on the men mandali's side and the women were to go to the women's quarters.
Mehera and Mani saw Baba privately at 6:30 A.M. Mehera broke her silence and spoke with Baba; Mani was instructed to say only, "Baba."
Baba stepped out of the cabin enclosure at precisely 7:00 A.M. and looked the very image of freshness, radiance and health. It was as if, instead of having just undergone 40 days of seclusion and fasting, he had just returned from a holiday!
Baba took his seat on the specially decorated dais.
He addressed those present: "Now prayers will be offered and everyone should be still. If anyone makes the slightest noise, a ghost will haunt him!"
After a few moments of silence, Don, Kalemama, Kaikobad and Khak Saheb read out the following prayer, dictated earlier by Baba, in English, Marathi, Gujarati and Urdu:
May God whom the Muslims call Allah, whom the Zoroastrians call Ahuramazda, whom the Hindus call Ishwar or Paramatma and whom many others call by many other names,
May He whose union the lovers seek in self-annihilation, whom the seers see as the only Reality, and whom the knowers know as their own Real Self,
May this Supreme Conscious Being, this conscious Soul of souls who eternally manifests as the Avatar and Perfect Masters, may He through His all-merciful act bestow on us His grace.