"These days, her love for you has increased," he said. "She is coming for the sahavas."
An unidentified American woman traveling in India arrived unexpectedly in Ahmednagar that day and asked to have Baba's darshan. Adi Sr. drove her to Meherabad, where Baba met her. The woman said she had been away from America for five years and intended leaving soon for Japan by boat from Calcutta.
She seemed extremely distressed, and Baba soothed her, explaining, "God is love. Love never fails. Baba is not a Master. Baba is the Lord of the Universe. Baba knows everything and is in everyone."
He gave the woman a Baba-locket and instructed her to dip it in water every night before going to bed for 40 days from 7 March. She should take Baba's name seven times and then drink the water.
"My mind is not functioning properly," she said.
Baba told her, "Don't worry. Follow my instructions with love and faith and you will be all right."
She was permitted to remain at Meherabad for two days before returning to Bombay and Calcutta.
The women mandali were brought to Meherabad at 3:30 in the afternoon and Baba showed them the camps and sahavas arrangements. After some time, he returned to Meherazad with them. The mast from Meherazad was also taken back and kept in a room at Meherazad.
The camps, sleeping cots, latrines and bathing rooms were cleaned and repaired. Sheets were washed and dried, mattresses aired and the beds remade. To minimize the mosquitoes, the entire area was sprayed with insecticide. The meeting pandal was also cleaned and decorated appropriately, and a large velvet umbrella was hung over Baba's seat, as it is done over a royal throne in India.
On 21 February, separate buses for men and women received the Telugu and Gujarati lovers at the Ahmednagar railroad station and transported them to Meherabad.
Baba arrived at Meherabad the following morning, Saturday, 22 February 1958, at eight o'clock. After going to his room and meeting with the mandali, he entered the main pandal at 8:40 A.M. amidst the usual acclamations, and greeted the sahavas group with a sweet smile on his face.
Besides the seven messages and one from Hafiz which hung in the pandal and hall, the following sign (dictated by him in Myrtle Beach in 1956) was also hung on the dais on either side of Baba's chair: