When I finally had the opportunity to go into the room where Baba was, I looked at him and my reaction, my feeling was of total knowing of this person. There was no barrier of any kind. There is always a barrier between a person and a friend, or a relative, or a mother or father — things you would not say, whatever. But here, there was absolutely no barrier between me and that person — which meant that those things that I would not tell a soul, I would not have hesitated to say to him. That is what I mean when I say I felt as if I had always known him — such an intimate closeness.
He was the most familiar person, someone more than a friend. He is the Friend, that no matter what you are, he will never condemn you. He is the friend that understands you completely, that is why he never condemns you and consequently loves you totally. He is a friend who is never absent. He is a friend who waits forever, if necessary, for you to come home.
For years, I looked for someone to whom I could say anything. But the only thing I could say to Baba when he embraced me was what I said in his ear: "I adore you."
When Henry Kashouty was let out into the corridor where everyone went after having their interview with Baba, he was totally dissatisfied. He did not feel that he had said what he needed to say to Baba, although he did not really know what to say! Henry:
Baba was God, and I wanted to look at God in human form — how he blinks, how he turns his head — everything! If I could not see the Godliness there, my blindness, if it looked enough, would see. There was not any question in my mind that his Reality would touch the deepest aspect in me if I looked long enough.
Every time the door opened, Kashouty tried to peek inside for another glimpse of Baba. Finally, Eruch approached him and said, "Baba wants to know what you want."
Henry said, "I must see him again," and he was allowed to see Baba once more. He later explained: "I found it very troubling that I could not strip away everything false about me, to find my own reality enough to address this great Reality." The best he could do was to say: "Baba, I must experience the Truth."
Baba beamed and said, "You will experience the Truth. I am helping you. I will help you."