They came to Meherazad on 1 October 1965, and Baba spent half an hour with them. Jim wished to take a few snapshots of Baba, which Baba permitted. Baba then called Soona and Nariman to sit on either side of him and have their photographs taken with him, and he did the same with Jim. Jimmy's bride had not come with them, and Baba asked the reason. He was told that the girl and her family did not accept Baba as a divine personality.
Baba assured them, "Don't worry. I will turn the key."
The Hodivalas returned to Aden, Jim got married, and his wife, Soonu, did not appear to be drawn to Baba. However, years later, as Jimmy's daughter, Kairbaan, related: "One day my mother had a dream about Baba. She woke up crying, sobbing, feeling really shaken. That morning came the news that Baba had dropped His body. I think that changed my Mum. My mother was a very kind and gentle lady. She would never judge people. She always wore her sadra and kusti but was not a follower of rituals. She hung Baba's pictures around the house and lived a Baba life. I know that Baba turned the key."
Meherjee arrived on 3 October 1965 with Sam Kerawala. In his car, he brought Gustadji and Peter's tombstones, which had been made in Poona.
As recounted, Phyllis Ott had met Baba in December 1964 and, at that time, Baba had informed her that he wanted her husband, Lyn, to come to India also, and for her to accompany him. There had been no discussion of the time for this meeting because the pending sahavas seemed the natural and appropriate date. But the day the Otts were informed of the cancellation of the sahavas was the day Lyn knew he must journey to meet Baba without further delay. "I knew that if I wrote and asked him if I could come now," Lyn recalled, "he would inevitably say no. I had come to understand that much about the Master. Thus, my decision to go had to come from my own inner prompting and call from the Baba within."
Their minds made up, the Otts cabled Baba just before leaving: "Your call is irresistibly lodged in our hearts, we are on our way. Thy will be done!" But arriving in India, Lyn, 39, began having doubts that perhaps he should not have tried, in his words, "to challenge the fortress of the Master's seclusion," although, in fact, Baba was happy they were coming.