I still wanted to rush out, but Baba held up his hand to deter me. I guess he knew I wanted to come to him because he touched his precious heart, and a little golden thread leapt out from his heart right to mine, and the joy and bliss and love it brought were quite something. I woke up then, with the bliss still there. The next day, I saw Baba everywhere, on the wall, on the floor, on my typewriter, on the ground, on bushes, standing on pathways — everywhere.
In November 1947, Evelyn contacted Malcolm Schloss, and later Jean Adriel. She obtained Baba's address in India and wrote to him. She had other visions of her Beloved Lord, but it was not until five years later, in Myrtle Beach, that she met him face to face.
Evelyn Blackshaw was escorted to the Lagoon Cabin at 10:30 A.M., on 11 May. Here is her account of her meeting:
Kitty took me over to the cottage where Baba was, and stepped in and introduced me. But there, instead of the Baba, whose pictures I had seen and whose likeness I had seen on inner planes, there, on a beautiful pink cloud, floated the most beautiful young boy I had ever seen. Absolutely divinely beautiful, not more than about sixteen or seventeen. I knew I was seeing Baba as I really knew him; such love flooded my heart that I almost burst with it.
I know Baba had me sit near him and patted me and drew me close, but he still remained that beautiful young man on his pink cloud. I never really saw what Baba looked like physically until I saw him again in New York ...
My dearest Krishna was, and is, indeed here with us again!
"My sons never leave me," Baba told Evelyn, and she knew that all were his sons!
Baba mentioned Jean Adriel, then instructed, "Jean's friend I find as dear as Jean to me. You genuinely love me. What love can do is amply proved by you. I love you and want you to know that all this has been worth the embrace of love. So, unless you wish it, I don't think it is necessary for you to wait here and take a hotel job, just to see me for five minutes on the 17th [the day of the public darshan].
"Don't think I want you to go. I love you, and tell you as one of my own. So go to Washington for a job, and the first day you get a job, write a letter to me. Try to love me, and don't think I will ever leave you. I will be with you with love, honest, pure love, that is dear to God, who is all purity. So, with Baba's love, be brave and face everything. Don't worry about anything."