period was connected with Baba's Universal Work in the west and his promised visit to Meher Center in Myrtle Beach?

Delia has sent a very interesting record of her trip to India during this period and with her permission I include it in the present narrative, slightly abbreviated. (The first part of her stay was in the ashram on Meherabad Hill and later in the ashram at Pimpalgaon).

It was during the early part of 1948, whilst I was on a visit to my relations in Panama, that a cable arrived from Baba asking me to come to India for three months.

I had received a letter from Jean Adriel in America telling me that she was also going; and we were able to sail together from England on June 26 — an almost miraculous feat to obtain passage on the already overcrowded ships sailing to India.

All Baba's disciples had been asked to observe some special discipline, from a list he had sent, to last from June 2nd to July 20th. Jean and I selected the semi-fast of eating only one meal a day, and once tea or coffee, as this seemed the most practical selection during a period of travel.

Jean and I had many interesting talks and speculations about the future. Neither of us had seen Baba since we said goodbye to him in Cannes in 1934. We both felt that deep changes had taken place in our inner selves. We had been through material and emotional upheavals and had been delving in psychological research. Jean had written the book, Avatar. I had experienced the dark days of the war with all that they implied. I could see well why Baba had left me in the active world to be plunged deeper into duality and the illusions of Maya — it was psychologically what my character needed. We felt the moment was ripe for our starting a completely new phase.

It was with feelings of great joy we watched the lights of Bombay come into view, for we knew we were to see our Beloved Baba again after a long separation.

The next morning, July 15, we landed and were met on the dock by four disciples. We were told that Baba had sent instructions that we were to be four days in Bombay, then go to Ahmednagar or stay at Meherabad,