"Hey", I said to myself, "What're all these fellows doing sitting around on the floor and being so quiet?" And I recognized Nariman Dadachanji and Francis Brabazon, and I thought, "You'd better get your eyes moving fast, to find the Man Who's in charge here!" I started looking fast but slow all around the room — fast, to find Him quick, and slow, so as not to look right past Him, since it was kind of gently dark. And after wasting two or three year-long seconds, I finally saw Him sitting in a chair in the corner, no more than fifteen feet to my right.

Baba was smiling His beaming Baba-smile, and I stepped over to His chair and reached out to embrace Him. As I leaned over to lay my heart onto my heart I glanced into His light-flashing eyes — moment of Sun-brightness, moment of wordless joy, moment of moments in the arms of God.

I sat down across from Baba. He began to gesture and Eruch, sitting at my left interpreted.

"How did you sleep on the train last night?"

I replied that I had slept well, but that my mind had been very active the past few days.

"Why", He asked, and I said that in the midst of the changing and cancellation of programs to see Him, at a time when lovers all over the world were longing to see Him, I was tremendously excited by this chance to be with Him.

"Pay no attention to the thoughts of the mind, good or bad. It is the nature of the mind to have all variety of thoughts. You should just keep longing in your heart for Me."

It is great good fortune that you are here at this time. I am in strict seclusion, and from this day on I will be seeing no one outside the immediate mandali — not even any of my close lovers in Ahmednagar." Then with a look of seriousness which I have never seen before at any time and which I won't forget — a look of seriousness which only God could produce — Baba gestured:

DON'T LET ME DOWN.

“You should strive to see Me as I am really am. Then you will be able to know Me as I am. How will you see Me? You must have a longing to see Me. And how do you get the longing? By loving Me."

After a few minutes of the meeting, Baba smiled and gestured: "God proposes and man disposes." I looked blankly at Him and He repeated the backward saying: "God proposes, and man disposes." Then He explained: "I had proposed to bring you here for a few minutes and send you away, but you have disposed of that idea."