All were surprised to see him doing so and it seemed to signal that something unusual was about to occur. The meaning of Baba's behavior became clear when, suddenly at 11:30, Babajan arrived in Meherabad in a car belonging to a Muslim disciple. The car stopped by the railroad tracks, in front of the girls' school bearing her name.
Since moving to Poona many years before, Babajan had never left the city for any reason. Therefore, everyone was truly astonished to see her at Meherabad. A week before, she had expressed her desire to leave Poona and go "to my child's place." She was found to be constantly talking about Baba and remembering him very lovingly and wanting to visit Ahmednagar.
After Rustom's departure to England, Padri had been made the superintendent of Meherabad. In those days, the procedure before any visitor was allowed to meet Meher Baba was to inform him about the person's arrival with a slip of paper with the person's name and address written on it. When the note was read to Baba, he would respond as to whether he would meet the person. Following this procedure, Padri sent this understated slip to Baba:
Date: April 1, 1928 Name: Hazrat Babajan Address: Poona
Raosaheb had accompanied Baba up the hill that day, carrying an umbrella over him. Normally, he would leave after Baba entered the compound, but that day Baba told him to wait. After Baba read Padri's note, still barefooted, out of respect for his Master, Baba immediately came walking down the hill (even though the path was strewn with rough, sharp stones), not using the rickshaw as was his usual habit. He stopped at the railway tracks about 50 yards from Babajan and sat down on a large stone.
Keeping Raosaheb near him, Baba told him, "Tell her to go back, not to stay here," and motioned to the rest of the mandali to take Babajan's darshan as he watched from a distance.
Babajan remained seated in her car. As the mandali bowed at the ancient woman's feet, she was talking to herself, praising Meher Baba and addressing him as usual as " mera beta [my son]." She spoke with authority and unusual sweetness, and also mysteriously referred to many spiritual secrets which the mandali could not follow. " Mera beta ko loot liya [They have robbed/ plundered my son]," was one phrase she kept repeating.
When Meherjee bowed down, Babajan scratched his face; when Buasaheb bowed, Babajan twisted his large moustache so much that his upper lip began to bleed. When Raosaheb approached her, she began crying loudly and said in Urdu, "Merwan, mujhe jaane do ... Merra ko chore do ..." ["Please, Merwan, let me go. Don't harass me. I have given everything to you. Now, I am old. For God's sake, let me vacate this body."]
Babajan was offered a little water to drink...
After her departure, Baba explained at length about Babajan, concluding with an extraordinary remark: "Today is the most eventful and significant day of my life!"
The next day, Baba went to Poona by car with the mandali to pay a return visit to Babajan, who was seated with a crowd in Bund Garden.