During the entire program, Gunatai Gadekar kept a tray of camphor burning on the dais. It went out during the arti singing and Baba instructed her to relight it. Before leaving the pandal, Baba embraced Shuddhananda Bharati. Baba sat in his lift-chair and he was carried to the car by Meherjee, Pesi and two other men. As Baba entered the car, Prakash Chhabra, who had filmed throughout the day, took some final parting shots. At 6:00 P.M., amidst loud, shouts of his Jai, Baba was driven back to Meherazad with Kumar, Kaka, Eruch and the driver.
Baba returned to Meherabad at 8:00 A.M. the next morning, Wednesday, 26 February 1958. He went straight to his cabin, where he was interviewed and filmed by Chhabra. Chhabra was from a wealthy family and had planned to make a film titled Modern Indian Saints and Sages , in which he wished to include the sequences he was shooting of Baba at Meherabad. It was not to be a commercial venture, but more of a documentary.
Baba asked him, "Do you have any questions?"
"Baba, why do you maintain silence?" Chhabra asked.
"Do people question why God is silent?"
Chhabra replied, "I am in the material world and cannot say. It's too vague."
Baba told him, "If my silence cannot be heard, of what avail are words?"
Then Baba asked Chhabra, "Do you need any help? Is the filming going all right? Do you have everything you need?"
Chhabra said, "We are making this film for the public, so if you have any message, we can convey it to the world. We would be most happy to do so."
Baba then had Eruch read out the message he had dictated for this purpose in Meherazad prior to the sahavas.
It was: "If man wants the happiness he is striving for, let him be more aggressive toward himself and more tolerant toward others."
After 45 minutes, Chhabra's interview ended and the film crew left the cabin. Chhabra never completed his film, Modern Indian Saints and Sages , although he did collect footage of other personalities in India. Ironically, two or three years later, he embarked on another film project about the life of Jesus Christ, titled Messiah , for which he traveled to Hollywood and Jerusalem. He also met with Pope Paul VI in Rome. But this project, too, never came to fruition. Little did the filmmaker know that he had already met the living Christ at Meherabad!