Ordinarily I am not the nervous kind, but as I went up to the door to see Baba, I started to get a little shaky. I peeked in and he spotted me, called me in and embraced me. He was very affectionate. The way he received me left an impression I will never forget. He reminded me of someone with a puppy dog. He made me feel very good. I felt like a long lost son that had one day come home.
Baba was very warm, very loving. One felt very comfortable with him. He was someone very dear, that loved you very much and who really had your own best interests at heart. No self-interest existed in him. When he told people things it was for their own best good. He had such amazing mastery and control of everything. You felt very secure with him. No worries.
When I first came I was very nervous. But Baba had his ways of making a person calm once more. So how did he do it with me? He appeared more nervous than me! He was looking at me as if he was very nervous! When I came in his legs were shaking as if he was nervous. I thought to myself: " I'm the one that's supposed to feel nervous, not him! What's he got to be nervous about?" And after a while I began to calm down, and he began to calm down, and everything was okay once more.
Baba asked, "How did you manage to come?"
Irwin said, "Baba, I was able to come because it was your will."
Baba motioned that Irwin should stand, and gestured, "Repeat that to everyone here."
Irwin said, "I am here because it is Baba's will."
Someone at the back raised his hand and asked, "But how did you earn the money to come?"
Irwin thought: "That man has missed the point."
As if to confirm this, Baba made a sweeping gesture, indicating, "That is unimportant. The way he said how he came is important."
After quite a while, Baba turned to Irwin and asked, "How long will you be here?"
Remembering Baba's first letter to him six months earlier, he replied, "One hour."
Baba tapped his wrist asking the time, and looked at Irwin with a humorous and puzzled expression.
He remarked, "You have already been here for two and a half hours. You said one hour, but now it is almost three hours! How can that be?"