After a few days, Baily was sent again with this message: "Sorabji, only you can do this work; it is Meher Baba's wish." When Baily delivered these words to him at Navsari, Sorabji was all the more annoyed. He said, "Who does Meher Baba think he is? Tell him not to be so arrogant!" Baily did his best to elucidate about Baba, but Sorabji refused to listen.
On his return, Baily narrated what had happened, and again Baba sent Baily and perhaps Rustom with the manuscript and this third message: "These manuscripts of Upasni Maharaj's biography are presented to you by Huma, which is Meher Baba's pen name. This work must be done by you." Baba had told them to leave the manuscript there and not to say anything else.
When Sorabji saw Baily and Rustom again at his doorstep, he shouted, "Why have you come back to pester me?" But without giving him any further chance to protest, they delivered Baba's message, left the manuscript there and departed for Bombay. (They had no idea that for the past five years, Sorabji had longed to meet the poet Huma.) Hearing the name Huma had a profound effect upon Sorabji and he immediately calmed. He read the ghazal by Huma again. Tears came to his eyes and he touched his forehead to the manuscript papers in reverence.
Shortly thereafter, he wrote to Baba:
Sir, please excuse me. I bow down to your order. You had stolen my heart long ago, but only today is the secret of your identity revealed! Your leela is unique. I am yours!
— Sorabji
Years later, however, Baily wrote a different version of his first meeting with Soma Desai, in which he related that he was given a cordial welcome by Sorabji. "There was something so pure about Soma's personality," Baily wrote, "that anybody would be attracted at first sight itself. Full of simplicity and humility, ready to serve others as if serving God, treating everyone as equal irrespective of caste, color or creed — a real man of God."
According to Baily, Sorabji expressed his inability to take on such work as he had two pending books of his own to finish. Apologizing sincerely, he returned the manuscript to Baily without even opening it. He said, "Other than this seva [service], if I can do anything, I am willing to do so. My respects to Babashree from myself and my entire family. I am desirous of his darshan and in future if there is any chance, I beg him to give me his darshan."