The program ended with arti at 10:55 A.M. and, after waving his blessing to the crowd, Baba walked behind the curtain.
As mentioned, the Australian couple, Peter Rowan and his wife, Helen, had been allowed by Baba to attend the darshan programs. Peter, 22, had heard about Baba through Oswald Hall in Melbourne at the end of 1963. After reading the first dozen pages of The Perfect Master , Peter recalled: "I knew that Baba was my Master and always had been. There was absolutely no acceptance or rejection — it was simply a fact. I was his." The couple had been planning to accompany the other Australians to India when Baba postponed their darshan until December. Although Peter and Helen Rowan were disappointed, they decided to go to India anyway. They had no intention or expectation whatsoever of seeing Baba, but thought of their trip as a pilgrimage to the tomb-shrines of the five Perfect Masters, and in fact had decided to return to India in December with the others to meet Baba.
The Rowans left Australia by ship and landed in Bombay on 26 February 1965. On arrival, a letter was awaiting them from Francis. Oswald had informed Francis of their arrival. Francis wrote that Baba had given permission for them to attend the Easterners' darshan in May, but that Baba did not want them to visit any other tombs except for Sai Baba's in Shirdi and Hazrat Babajan's in Poona, if they wished. He also sent instructions that they were not to visit any saints, yogis or ashrams. So for two months, Peter and Helen traveled around India. After their travels they returned to Bombay, where they met Arnavaz and Nariman and accompanied them to Poona.
On 1 May 1965, the Rowans were seated in the Poona Center, where they had their first glimpse of Baba. Peter Rowan related:
My first view of the Beloved brought about instantaneously an absolute and utter fulfillment, which I had never considered possible. The moment lived and breathed its own life without relevance to time. Baba was, I was, the moment was. Naturally it is only in retrospect that I could appreciate this, as the subjectivity of the moment was so total.
That morning, after darshan had been in progress for about half an hour, Baba sent one of the mandali to call the Rowans. "Baba wants to see you now," he told them.