On 9 October Feram returned to Khushru Quarters, after more than a month at Meherazad.
On Eruch's birthday, Sunday, 13 October 1963, Adi, Meherjee, Ramakrishnan, Kamble, Sadashiv, Manchershaw Sukhadwalla, Shinde, Bhavsar, Thade and Jalbhai were called to Meherazad to discuss the progress of the construction of the new Poona Center. They had been unable to raise the necessary funds for the project, so Baba had permitted Jalbhai to seek donations in Andhra for work, and Jal had collected Rs.33,400, which was handed over to Kamble, their treasurer. After convening for three hours, the Poona workers returned home.
Don Stevens was traveling extensively on business for Standard Oil Company. He was busy with negotiations in Tokyo, but had an unscheduled weekend coming up. He wished to leave the negotiations early, take a plane to Bombay, arrive on Sunday, take a taxi direct to Ahmednagar to spend the day with Baba, then take the same taxi back in the evening to Bombay, catching the return flight to Tokyo to rejoin the negotiations the following day. Stevens outlined this possibility to Baba in a long telegram, and Baba replied his acceptance.
When Don Stevens arrived on 13 October, Baba introduced him to the gathering and informed the group of how Stevens had taken a taxi all the way from Bombay just to spend a few hours at Meherazad. Baba wanted to know how much money it cost, and Don told him Rs.400. The visitors looked suitably impressed.
Baba remarked, "Don would do anything I ask him to do. In fact, he would go jump off a cliff if I asked him. Wouldn't you, Don?"
Wondering what he was getting himself into (thinking Baba was about to ask something else of him), Don Stevens reflected for a few seconds before he gulped, "Yes, I would."
Baba smiled his approval. Don then left, and Meherjee and others rode with him up to Poona.
Dadi Kerawala was present at the meeting, and during it Baba casually remarked to him, "Why don't you go abroad?"
Afterwards, Dadi began thinking of what Baba had said and began applying to universities in America to further his studies. Dadi's field of study was agriculture and he was offered an assistantship at Michigan State University. He left the following May with Baba's approval. At Michigan State he studied for four years and earned a Ph.D. in Agriculture.
In a letter to him (in 1967), Baba sent this message: "Those who love me with unswerving love will always have their love reciprocated in full measure."