On 21 February, Baba had Adi send this telegram to Richard Alpert: "Do not worry. I am responsible for all that happens in the universe. Therefore, tell people about me and tell them to love me, but they should come to me only when I call them."
A seven-year-old boy named Jayanti regularly attended the Ahmednagar Center meetings but had not yet met Baba in person. After he had pestered Adi and others to take him to Baba, one morning, with Baba's consent, he was brought by Waman Padale. Before being taken to Baba, Eruch asked the boy, "Why do you want to see Meher Baba?"
"So that real faith may be born in me," Jayanti replied sincerely.
"What do you hope to gain after having faith?"
"I will find God," the boy answered.
"And when you have found God, what will you do?"
"I will love him and serve him!"
The boy was taken inside mandali hall and he reverently placed a packet of sweets at Baba's feet. He did not have to remove his shoes before entering the hall, because he had already removed them before starting from Ahmednagar!
Baba embraced and caressed him, remarking, "You are very fortunate!"
Jayanti nodded emphatically in agreement. When asked who it was that was seated before him, he answered simply, "God."
Eruch said, "Well, now that you have seen him, ask of him what you will. What do you want from him?"
The boy gazed at Baba and said, "Love."
Baba was delighted at this reply and smilingly gestured, "Granted."
Baba's 72nd birthday was celebrated in different Centers throughout the world on Friday, 25 February 1966. Each year the celebrations were increasing, and it was truly a springtime for his lovers when they gathered to sing his praises. Like the previous year, in several places in India celebrations commenced 72 days before his birthday and concluded on the 25th.
That year the garden and kitchen servants and messenger boys (who brought the mail and telegrams) asked Baba if they could decorate Meherazad for his birthday, because his lovers and devotees around the world were decorating their Centers. The "Abode of the Beloved" should be decorated too, they reasoned. Baba allowed them to do it and they put their heart into it, covering the ceiling of mandali hall with a canopy of paper flowers and other decorations.