Brynar Mehl fell on his knees on Baba's right side, and these totally unpremeditated words came out, "Baba, I just wanted to tell you that I am yours to do with as you please." Baba scooped him up and kissed him beneath his right eye. "It was the biggest, most delicious wet kiss and hug I had ever received in my life," Mehl recollected.
Baba gestured to Brynar, "You have made me very happy," and the young man dissolved into tears.
For the afternoon session on 2 November 1962, 1,000 more chairs had been added inside the pandal. On the platform, the Poona bhajan group was singing when Baba came onto the dais at about 1:45 P.M. As he entered, all 6,000 present rose and shouted repeatedly: "Avatar Meher Baba ki jai! Avatar Meher Baba ki jai!"
Baba embraced a tall Sikh and gestured, "It may rain."
Yogi Shuddhananda Bharati and Maharani Shantadevi sat next to Baba's chair on the stage as they did throughout the gathering.
Darwin Shaw stepped to the microphone and read Baba's message called "My Dear Children":
My Dear Children,
Your coming to me from different places and from across oceans has pleased me. And although no sacrifice to be near me is too great, I am touched by the sacrifice that some of you have made to come here.
Those who have not been able to come to me should not feel disheartened, for my love is with them as always, and especially so at this time. I know how they are longing to be near me even for an hour, and how helpless they are in their circumstances.
You have come from great distances, not for some convention or conference, but to enjoy my company and feel afresh my love in your hearts. It is a coming together of children of East and West in the house of their Father.
All religions of the world proclaim that there is but one God, the Father of all in creation. I am that Father.
I have come to remind all people that they should live on Earth as the children of one Father until my grace awakens them to the realization that they are all one without a second, and that all divisions and conflict and hatred are but a shadow-play of their own ignorance.
Although all are my children, they ignore the beauty and simplicity of this Truth by indulging in hatreds, conflicts and wars that divide them in enmity, instead of living as one family in their Father's house. Even among you who love me and accept me for what I am, there is sometimes lack of understanding of one another's hearts.