All thought Baba was joking, but he said, "I am not kidding. I say this seriously."
Meher began weeping, then uttered, "If I do not get accepted to medical school, I will never have Baba's darshan. What an unbearable punishment!"
Baba asked, "Why are you crying and afraid? Try and see what happens."
Accordingly, after attaining her bachelor of science degree, Meher applied and was accepted to medical school and became a doctor.
On another occasion, Bapai Desai's husband Minoo had come with them to Poona. The darshan was scheduled to start at 3:00 P.M., so all three were standing outside by the gate. Bapai had recently recovered from an operation for cancer and, being weak, was unable to stand for a long time in the sun. The men were allowed to come inside first and Minoo went in.
Baba asked him, "Where are Bapai and Meher?"
Minoo replied that they were standing outside near the gate.
Baba reacted angrily. "Do you have any sense? Bapai is still recovering from her operation and you make her stand in the sun? You go stand by the gate, and send them inside!"
Eruch spoke up in Minoo's defense, "Minoo is not to blame, Baba. Three o'clock was the time fixed for the women to come, so how could Minoo bring them in against your order?"
"Whether it is his fault or not," Baba insisted, "when I say so, it is his mistake!"
So Bapai and Meher came in and, after inquiring about her health, Baba asked her to repeat an incident that had happened many years ago in Bombay. Bapai told the following story: "Once [during the 1920s], Baba was staying at Kaka Baria's in Bombay. A woman came to tell Baba that a dear friend of hers had been in labor for hours and still had not delivered the baby. Baba heard her and without saying a word covered himself and seemed to be sleeping. The woman was astonished and thought: 'What sort of guru is this Meher Baba to have gone to sleep when my friend is dying in pain?' After she left, Baba got up and took a bath though he had never done so before at such an odd hour. When the woman went back to her friend, she discovered that while she had been narrating her plight to Baba, the woman had easily delivered the child and was resting."