Adi brought Kaka Chinchorkar for Baba's darshan on the 7th. The next day, Baba's hip pain was worse and he had a fever. He was given a cortisone injection by Dr. Deshmukh of Poona.
A new "contact" at this time was a Sindhi named Prem Fatachand Khilnani, 40. Prem was a judge who, while taking an evening stroll past Guruprasad, noticed a banner announcing Avatar Meher Baba's darshan the next day. He went inside the compound to inquire about it, but could not find anyone to ask. He sat on a bench and waited. Baba had apparently seen him and sent Eruch to find out who was sitting in the garden. Baba permitted Prem to meet him the next morning at 11:15 A.M. Prem came and was called into Baba's bedroom. He narrated how he had first heard of Baba seventeen years before. He had gone to visit his maternal uncle in Sukkor in 1941, when one day two men arrived unannounced. It was Chanji and Baidul, and they told Khilnani's uncle, "We have come from Meher Baba and are in search of masts. Are there any spiritually advanced persons in the area?"
Khilnani took them to the great mast Qazi Saheb. At that time, Baba was staying in Quetta and had sent Baidul to find and bring masts to him. Baidul whispered in the mast's ear, "Come with us; Meher Baba is calling you. Come with us to Quetta."
The mast pretended not to understand their language, and Khilnani suggested he be told in Sindhi. When this was done, Qazi Saheb said, "I am an illiterate person; I am not an LL.B. [attorney with a law degree]! What does he want with me?" Khilnani was struck by his statement, as he himself had just passed his law exam. The mast refused to budge despite much persuasion, even after Baidul had called for mutton and other delicacies for him. Baba, however, did go to Sukkor and contact this mast five years later.
Khilnani later read Paul Brunton's book, A Search in Secret India , and, from Brunton's description, he decided Meher Baba must be a fraud. But when he met Baba face to face in Guruprasad, he was convinced of his divinity and became a close follower.