I shunned society. I became completely aloof and distant from all. Inside, I was dying every moment. But after I came in contact with Baba, a complete metamorphosis took place in my life. The dark despair left me entirely and was replaced by his loving, sweet remembrance.
A three-year-old girl was sitting opposite Baba. He called her; she went to him at once and bowed down. Baba mentioned the girl came to Poona to see him from Sagar (in Central India) without her parents. The family's neighbors were coming for his darshan, and she insisted on joining them.
Madhusudan then sang a few ghazals, and afterwards the group dispersed for lunch.
In the afternoon an Irani woman with her children approached Baba. She requested Baba to cast his nazar upon them.
“”After she left, Baba observed, "My nazar is on everyone all the time; however, it does not fall upon just anyone. Once it falls on a person, he would instantaneously become infinite power, infinite knowledge and infinite bliss!"
Espandiar Vesali, 48, had been a student in the Prem Ashram in Meherabad in 1927–1928. Soon after the school closed, he returned home to Iran and had not seen Baba since 1929. Espandiar longed to have Baba's darshan, but he wrote saying he had no money to travel to India. Through Baidul, Baba wrote back asking how much Espandiar was earning and what was the means of his livelihood. He answered in detail that he had a modest income from a cherry and apple orchard, but that most years the winter frost destroyed the blossoms on the trees. If he had a good crop, he would sell it and should there be any leftover amount from what he needed for his maintenance, he would be able to come to India. Otherwise, he would not be able to see Baba.
Baba instructed Baidul to write back saying that Espandiar should go to the trees in his orchard and speak to them: "It is 35 years since I have seen Meher Baba, and I want to go and visit him. So you, my crop, are not allowed to freeze. I beg of you trees to bear fruit in abundance so that I might be able to go to see my Lord. The frost and winter should not destroy my crop this year." Baba instructed him to walk around the trees and utter these words, and then not to think of anything else and not to worry. So, Espandiar "spoke" to his trees every morning.
