News of Meher Baba's darshan in Bhuinj spread and lovers from Poona, Bhor, Wai and Satara also gathered there. With a few of the mandali, Baba arrived in Bhuinj on the afternoon of Sunday, 18 December 1955. The villagers received him outside the village and wanted to take him into the village in a procession in the car. Baba, however, got out of the car and walked the distance along with the jubilant villagers, who led the way singing bhajans and beating on drums. When Baba reached the grand old mansion, Tatya Saheb was waiting on the steps and welcomed him. The family performed puja before Baba, and later Baba was led through the large house and sat comfortably in a decorated room. Tatya Saheb was so overjoyed to have Baba in his house, he could only stand and watch him silently. Baba, too, felt at home and expressed this with childlike delight.
Suddenly, Tatya Saheb remembered to introduce his friends and relatives, and snapping out of his reveries he began bustling back and forth bringing each person before Baba. One of those present was a relative named Chohan, who was an old lover. It was through him that Bhuinjkar had come to know about Baba. Baba distributed prasad to the family, and it seemed all had been in his contact for years! Baba walked around the entire house, and the family served tea and refreshments to Baba and the mandali.
In the large open area outside the bungalow, the villagers had collected and Baba came out on the verandah, where a seat had been provided for him. When he sat down, four schoolgirls sang a song of welcome, describing Baba's divinity and his message of love, which the school's headmaster had specially composed for the occasion. In an emotional voice filled with devotion, Tatya Saheb delivered a speech, at the end of which he summed up:
The history of the world records the downfall of empires and their dynasties; whereas spiritual history, if one cares to delve into it, is replete with the hierarchy of saints and Sadgurus, eternal in its aspect and immortalized by its followers who gain and gather strength in number and adoration with the march of time!