After meeting Baba at the Delmonico Hotel in New York in 1956, Henry Kashouty would often write to him requesting instructions.
Baba had replied, "You must come to India."
Henry wanted to do this but he had little money. He began holding regular Monday night meetings at his home in Hampton, Virginia, but at one point he wrote to say, "I feel like the blind leading the blind."
Baba responded, "When the Avatar is behind you there is no question of the blind leading the blind; your love, faith and highly developed sense of feeling and understanding of the Avatar of the Age is praiseworthy."
During Baba's visit to the Center in 1958, Henry and his wife, Kecha, came but Baba did not pay much attention to Henry, which was a great shock when Baba meant everything to him. It was as though Henry didn't exist. Baba sent for this one and that one — but not Henry. Finally, one day Henry resolved in his heart that since Baba is God, it must be God's will that he not see him. Within minutes, Baba sent for him and his wife!
In the Lagoon Cabin, the couple sat on the floor at Baba's feet. Henry rubbed Baba's leg from the knee down and repeatedly whispered to him, "I adore you."
Baba told him, "You will come back [reincarnate] with me. You are very close to me." He told his wife, "Do you realize Henry's a rare gem? He used to write me long letters on legal pads full of praise for me. He was like a poet — such love letters from a lawyer!"
Kecha said, "He wants to go back to India with you."
"What will you do if I take him?"
"I'm coming, too!" she declared.
Baba told her, "You try to make others happy. Let me make you happy. Your mother and father love me very much. Whom do you love, Henry or me?"
"It's because of you that I'm able to love Henry," she replied wisely.
Baba smiled, got up out of his chair and embraced her.
He told Henry, "Kecha is tinsel to my Light. I have given you a very beautiful family. Make sure you take care of them."
Baba then said, "Your karmic past is wiped clean. Both of you are under my divine thumb!"