Baba's message was printed and sent out in the form of a circular which was called Life Circular No. 1 . Thus, from 6 February 1952, Meher Baba's LIFE began!1
In a lighthearted mood, on the morning of Friday, 8 February 1952, Baba went on a picnic to Happy Valley with Mehera, Mani, Goher, Meheru, Rano and Kitty. They walked the distance of four miles to Happy Valley, arriving at 8:00 A.M. They stayed until two that afternoon, and were then driven back to Meherazad by Adi Sr. (who had brought their lunch of pulao).
Alexander Markey, an American film director who had first met Baba in Europe in 1936, was making a film in India. Adi Sr. and Don brought him to Meherazad on the 9th, along with Irene Conybeare, who had returned to India. Each had a fifteen-minute interview with Baba, and Irene was also permitted to visit with the women.
Meher Baba's 58th birthday was celebrated in Meherazad on Tuesday, 12 February 1952. The companions offered the following invocation in Baba's presence as dictated by him:
O God! Today being my first real birthday, my heart expresses that the declaration of the LIFE by me was entirely Yours and by Your will, because nothing happens save by Your will.
All my knowledge and my ignorance, all my strength and my weakness, all my freedom and my bondage are as You have desired and decreed.
This Life Eternal will be lived by me in conformity with Your will, and every word of the declaration of the LIFE will come to pass by Your grace.
The prayer was issued as a Life Circular , and sent to all concerned. The circular also contained this message from Baba:
"God's blessings and my love to you all on this my first real birthday!"
Footnotes
- 1.All of the circulars were printed by Adi Sr. at Nusserwan Satha's Mohan Press in Ahmednagar.