Noshir did this for several months. He then left the area, but returned to Ahmednagar on 3 December 1965 and requested that Adi intervene on his behalf and request Baba to see him. Baba refused to see him. Noshir left and had no further personal contact with Baba (although he continued to write bothersome letters to Adi).
Jalbhai arrived in Ahmednagar on Friday, 10 September 1965 and was driven to Meherazad by Rustom Kaka for a brief visit. The next afternoon, the editor of the Nagpur Marathi weekly Chavhata (At the Crossroads), B. N. Saoji, accompanied by Bhasker, arrived at Meherazad unexpectedly. Baba was in his room at the time with Bhau.
He sent Bhau out to have tea, and when he returned, Baba asked, "Any news?"
Bhau told him of Saoji's arrival, and Baba called the man.
Standing on the doorstep, Saoji reverently saluted Baba, who gestured, "I am very pleased with you."
This one-minute darshan proved priceless for Saoji, who, after his return to Nagpur, plunged into work in Meher Baba's name with zeal and enthusiasm.
Prior to his coming, B. N. Saoji had read Paul Brunton's book A Search in Secret India , in which Brunton had belittled Baba. He was also aware of Baba's often repeated statement about breaking his silence, which he had yet to do. He had read of how Baba had declared that he would speak at the Hollywood Bowl (in 1932), and without doing so had returned to India. Baba had likewise predicted the destruction of three-fourths of the world (in 1954) and later differentiated between his language and ordinary human language. Still, thousands were prepared to surrender their lives to him! Why? If an ordinary man had acted in this way he would have been defamed. Thinking over all this, Saoji had come for darshan; he left convinced that the whole universe lay in Baba's palm!
Arnavaz and Nariman Dadachanji and Jim Mistry also arrived from Bombay on the 11th and stayed at Meherazad for eight days. Gaimai Jessawala (Eruch's mother) and Nargis Dadachanji (Arnavaz's sister) were allowed to stay for seven days in September.
Sarosh and Viloo had returned from Bombay and they came to Meherazad on 15 September with Adi. Sarosh was overcome with emotion and burst into tears and fell at Baba's feet, grateful to have recovered from the ordeal he had recently undergone in Bombay.1 Sidhu returned to Meherabad that day.
Footnotes
- 1.Baba had instructed Sarosh to consult a particular doctor, but circumstances (and Sarosh's relatives) conspired so that Sarosh ended up in the care of another physician. "Sarosh has made a mistake," Baba remarked to the mandali. "He will suffer for it." Sarosh then had to undergo three abdominal operations for cancer.