Each day, morning sessions were reserved for the Westerners. At 9:00 A.M., several buses arrived and 144 Western men and women entered the hall of Guruprasad to meet their Beloved. Baba was dressed in a white sadra and pink coat, and the rays of his smile filled the room. His smile was radiant as he met his lovers, and his glance penetrated every heart. Virginia Rudd asked Baba how he had slept.
Baba replied, "I cannot go to sleep now or else I would not wake up until after 700 years!"
There were no introductions. Each man and woman walked before Baba and said his or her name, as Baba embraced them.
He gestured to the Australian Clarice Adams, "You look exactly the same — and Ena [Lemmon] too!"
He asked Leonard Willoughby if he remembered the song he had sung for Baba in Myrtle Beach in 1958, He's Got The Whole World In His Hands, and asked him to sing it again.
Baba pointed to his palm and gestured, "I have the whole world in my palm," and added, "Remember that."
After the song, Baba embraced Leonard, but remarked, "Tomorrow, there will be no embraces; otherwise, we will fill up the session only with embraces and I will be limp!"
Vivian Agostini had accompanied her husband, Louis, but she was not yet prepared to accept Baba as the Avatar. She had agreed to come but vowed: "I will never kneel down before any man who calls himself God!" After meeting Baba, she announced her intentions to return to America, complaining to her husband, "Baba did not look at me. I don't know whether he was even aware that I was being presented to him. I feel as if I were treated by him as nothing!"
However, suddenly Rano appeared calling out, "Vivian Agostini! Baba wants to see Vivian Agostini."
Vivian Agostini later recounted:
I approached Baba and knelt at his feet as his gestures indicated that he wished to give me a special embrace. No mother's hands could have been more gentle as he held my head in his hands and gazed deep within my eyes. All I could say was: "Baba, I love you. I love you so very much." He nodded his head as if to say "I know, I know," referring perhaps to my genuine anguish of the evening before when I felt so forlorn and abandoned.
And, I had the strange feeling of melting into a vast and endless domain. Then the tears came pouring out as though a dam holding back a large expanse of water had suddenly broken, and the uncontrollable torrent poured down my face and over my clothes. If that was the edge of the cyclone of Baba's love which I had just experienced, what must the very center be like?