Baba returned to Meherazad at 1:45 P.M.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the majority of the 164 members comprising the Hindi group arrived in Ahmednagar. Their cheers and shouts of "Meher Baba ki jai!" were so loud that residents surrounding the train station came to see what was going on. This group mainly consisted of lovers from Hamirpur District, Kanpur, Aligarh, Delhi, Dehra Dun and other places in central and northern India. The Hindi "birds" were immediately taken to the Garden of Meherabad. The garden was home to many different species of birds, each singing in a different language. But though their songs were different, the Wine which flowed through all was the same. The Wine has no connection with either language, religion, sect or country. And so it is that in the Garden of Meherabad, all birds can find shelter and there build nests.
On Sunday, 20 November 1955, Baba arrived in Meherabad at about 7:15 A.M., and at his cabin he held a discussion with the mandali. Twenty minutes later, he entered the hall, where he was vociferously hailed, and garlanding began by his lovers.
The college principal Niranjan Singh of Delhi had not brought a garland, so Baba took one off his neck and handed it to him so that he could garland him.
When Hellan stepped forward without any garland or flowers in his hands, Baba greeted him, saying, "Are you happy? You are just the same as when I saw you last."
But before Hellan could go back to his place, Baba recalled him and asked, "Did you garland me?"
When he replied in the negative, Baba, likewise, gave him a garland and insisted on being garlanded. Others who had not brought flowers were also given a garland from the pile beside Baba, and instructed by him to garland him.
Unlike the Andhra group, who were quite vocal in their expressions of love, and overly enthusiastic in their embrace to Baba, the Hindi group garlanded him in an orderly fashion.
Baba remarked, "I am happy with your love. I was afraid you would crush me while embracing me like the Telugu group. And while the Gujarati group was garlanding me, one garland hurt my eye slightly. But you garlanded me very heedfully and made me happy."