Adi Sr. brought Meherjee, Vishnu and Irene Conybeare to Satara on the 4th. They stayed for two days. Irene was accommodated at Grafton. In a meeting on the 4th with Adi Sr., Eruch, Mani and Ramjoo, Baba reconfirmed that all Baba's copyrights of his writings were vested in Adi Sr., except for God Speaks , which Baba had given gratis to Sufism Reoriented in America. Baba also indicated that Adi Sr., Nilu, Eruch and Meherjee would accompany him to the West in the first part of July.
A woman from Victoria, Australia named Ena Lemmon had been religiously inclined since childhood. After investigating different philosophies and psychology, she turned to Eastern thought and became initiated in Sufism. She first heard of Meher Baba in 1947, through the Sufi leader Baron von Frankenberg. When a friend put a copy of Baba's Discourses into her hands, she opened the book and saw Baba's picture (standing with hands folded in front of him), emanating a sense of humor. Ena narrated:
As soon as I saw the photograph, I said, "I am going to India!" The Discourses made a tremendous impact on me. I was hooked on them, and my heart would thump when I read them.
Baron von Frankenberg gave me a copy of Avatar [Jean Adriel's book] to read, which I did, and it brought tears to my eyes. Von Frankenberg noted my reaction to Baba and said to think the matter over and, if I felt so inclined, to write to Baba, asking him for his guidance, and to take me under his wings.
Ena did just that, and in November 1947, received a reply from Adi, which read in part:
Baba was very happy to read your letter. He said he knows you very well. He is always there in your heart. You should remember him as often as you can. He is guiding you internally. You should not worry about anything.
More correspondence followed, but by September 1948, Ena was feeling less and less inclined to participate in the Sufi meditations, and asked Baba what to do. He answered her through Ghani:
Hazrat Baba is definitely against encouraging routinism [in practices], and your disgust with the same is understandable. For the present, you need not indulge in any of the Sufi exercises and prayers unless they appeal to you. The only meditation that you are permitted to indulge in is to meditate on Meher Baba, and leave the result to him.