Early that morning Jane Haynes had woken from a deep
sleep and suddenly began weeping. She had come to the Center very early and was seated on
the aisle at the back of the Barn. When Baba entered carried by the dancers,
just as he reached her chair, he indicated to the dancers to put him down.
“”He
brought his face close to Jane's and inquired, "Did you sleep
well?"
He knew. Again, while leaving the Barn two hours later, Baba passed
by Jane and gestured for his chair to be put down.
“”The same question was
repeated, "Did you sleep well?"
Jane later recalled:
Then he let me look for the first time into his
glorious eyes. There was something in his eyes that seemed to temporarily lift
the veil. Everything disappeared. There was only Baba. No Barn or people. He
appeared so young and so beautiful. He was the Christ whom I had tried to know
and love since childhood. Baba showed me my Jesus, so unmistakable that I cried
out in my heart, "But it is you!" And I heard within as I gazed at
Baba's face: "Yes, it is I, it is I."
This shattering experience was engraved on Jane's
mind, never to be forgotten.
After having this tiny glimpse of Baba's divinity,
drunk with love now that she truly appreciated who he was, Jane was
understandably beside herself when Kitty came running to inform her that Baba
wished to view the film taken by Charmian Duce of his trip to America in 1956 at
her theater downtown that afternoon, and the entire group was to join him. The
ballet dancers pitched in to help and went ahead to decorate the theater.
Elizabeth, who had been waiting to see how Jane would
take to Baba, said, "You are in no condition to pick up Wendy [Jane's
daughter] from school; you may have a car wreck! I'll go and get
her."
Baba allowed Charles Haynes to ride with him in the car
to the theater. He sat next to Baba in the front seat as Elizabeth drove. Kitty was in the back. On the way, Kitty tapped Baba on the shoulder and said, "Baba, I must ask
you something. What about the [Haynes] children's father?"
“”Baba turned to her and with an intense look put his two
forefingers together and then broke them apart, indicating, "It [the
marriage] is finished."
"But Baba," Kitty persisted, "how can you
say finished? The children, don't they need their father?"
