Many from Bombay and Navsari sat in another coach, as they were accompanying Baba to attend the program in Bajwa that day. Continuous cries of "Avatar Meher Baba ki jai!" rent the air like firecrackers. At 8:00 A.M. the train started moving. Standing in the gangway, Baba waved his blessing, and his lovers waved back and gazed at the departing train until it disappeared.
On the way, some of Baba's lovers in the other compartment beseeched him to allow them the chance of enjoying his company, and so he called them into his coach. The small carriage became so full that Baba was squashed in his seat with no room to stretch his feet or sit comfortably, and the mandali had to travel standing up. But Baba seemed happy amidst his ardent devotees. Bachoobhai regaled everyone with sweet songs (many composed by a lover from Bajwa, named Haribhai Patel), and Ravikant Rawal of Surat told humorous stories.
At every wayside station, crowds acclaimed Baba and came into his compartment for darshan. At the Surat station, there was a great rush for darshan. A stifling crowd had gathered, and Baba gave his contact to many. There was the likelihood of the train being delayed, so the guard humbly approached Baba and asked, "Should I give the signal for the train to leave?" Baba smiled and gestured yes.
The train departed, and Bachoobhai and his group continued to entertain Baba with bhajans. Ravikant Rawal made everyone laugh with a wild tale.
While he was narrating another one, Baba interrupted him, remarking, "I will hear the rest of it when I come back after 700 years!"
Rawal wittily replied, "What the hell else was I going to come for again in another birth after having taken hold of your hand in this one?"
Ravikant Rawal was an old lover of Baba and had come in his contact in a curious manner. He was not a particularly handsome man, but fell in love with and wanted to marry a beautiful girl. Her parents were opposed to the match, and Rawal met with no success in his efforts to persuade them otherwise. Then he came to Baba, beseeching him that somehow he should bring about the marriage, and if Baba did, he would be his slave for life.
Baba had a hearty laugh and asked, "Is there bargaining even in my love?"
Rawal said, "I don't know anything about that. I am at your feet, and you will have to fulfill my wish."