On the 25th, he also gave this message for the Andhra Patrika publication:
"For ages, I have been giving in silence my silent message of love. You ask me for a message from my silence, but silent are the words of my silence. Silent is love, and the lover loves my silence and silently adores me in my silence."
In commemoration of Baba's birthday, the Bombay Center published excerpts from his messages titled Twenty-One Fragments by Avatar Meher Baba . Francis Brabazon was asked to write an introduction to the brochure.1 Francis' article concluded with these words:
The words of men are like candles which burn out, leaving both the speaker and his audience in darkness; but the message of the Divine Incarnation, both at the time of utterance and for posterity, is as a sun that never sets and is always available if one will but pull up the blind of prejudice and partake of its light.
Baba had remarked at Meherazad during February, "That one Word full of meaning has produced innumerable meaningless words, and when I utter that Word all words will have meaning."
A special train from Andhra bringing 300 pilgrims arrived in Ahmednagar on Sunday, 1 March 1959. The lovers sought Baba's darshan, which he agreed to give. Adi reserved two rooms for darshan at the Railway Club near the station, and at 8:00 A.M., he and Sarosh brought Baba, the mandali and Minoo Kharas of Karachi there. About 500 lovers from Ahmednagar also gathered, including many devotees from the village of Bhalwani. Sarosh invited many of his acquaintances, and Jalbhai came from Poona to film the event. Allowing darshan to all, Baba himself distributed the prasad. When the program was over, the railway officials came with their families and received prasad. Baba came out of the room, and Jalbhai took his film with the whole group present. Baba sat in the car, but his departure for Meherazad was delayed as people ran up to the car window to kiss his hands. The car drove off amidst shouts of Baba's Jai! Despite pain in the hip and swollen ankles, Baba visited Akbar Press and Luktuke's residence before returning to Meherazad.
Age was touched by the Beloved's munificence: "Words are insufficient to describe Meher Baba's darshan programs. When a person goes for a swim in either a river or the sea, he experiences the coolness of the water and feels joy in remaining submerged there.
Footnotes
- 1.Ten thousand copies of the brochure were printed in English and 5,000 in Gujarati. Francis Brabazon was also one of the guest speakers at the Bombay Center's birthday function that year.