• "One night it was my good fortune to see Adi at the Amir Hotel. He related some anecdotes. He had been discussing Predestination and Grace with Eruch. Baba casually entered their room and hearing them, turned and said that at any time, if He had the whim, he could uplift a scoundrel to Godhood. This calls to mind something else Baba said: 'I never change plans. It is all one endless plan of making people know there is no plan."'

• "Again and again, it was not Meher Baba's divinity which amazed me, but his extraordinary humanness—his playful joking, his tenderness, his love as one's friend, and his winning personality which reverberated all around him. Frankly, while in India I forgot most of Baba's statements and the generalities I had heard about him, for the love and example of his disciples was enough to instinctively know the Baba who is the center of their lives. I remember Baba's brother Jal saying at the railway station the day we arrived, 'You'll see Baba, You'll see Baba.' And I do feel that I have seen Baba the human Baba. Knowing Baba through his intimate disciples is like Infinite God becoming man to make Love known to us—through this most loving of men we can know God."

• "Arnavaz recalled, 'Baba said to us, one day you will look over many shoulders when I give darshan, you close ones. I see now what He meant.' Mani recalled Baba saying 'Darshan on my own terms. Baba fixed the appointment. It's sad for those who did not come, who felt that Baba was with them anyway. Baba issued the call . . . He knew.' 'If Baba is Who HE is, then it is an act of faith to come, for Baba lives eternally. Therefore the darshan was held as planned,' Elizabeth said.  

          

"Then Mani repeated, 'Baba kept saying with a father's pride and a mother's love—You will see My boys and girls, you will see My boys and girls. She showed us how Baba made the circle sign for "good" with his fingers, while telling them about His boys and girls. 'Now, we see what He meant,' she added, then recalled how, after Baba dropped the body, Mehera asked, What shall we do now? And how it came to Mani clearly, suddenly that Baba had said several months ago, 'In March, you march to Poona.' So, immediately they began to pack to go to Poona."

• "That recording of that little tune Begin the Beguine, in 1936, was the real turning-point in my life."

• "It became so overpoweringly obvious that Baba's plans for darshan were based on the absence of his physical presence, and that there was no limit in time or space to the experience of his true presence. Madhusudan made me aware of two things, one, a glimpse into Baba's unutterable human attributes, the God-Man, a paradoxical merging of God and man, doing the work of God with the attributes of man. The other was a warning against turning love for Baba into a ritual.

 

•      "Pukar spoke to us too. He told us that when he was a young man, he experienced himself as God, but suffered greatly because he did not have the power to do the work of God. After finding Baba, he then saw Baba as his true self. This raised the question of what were we all to do, now that Baba s physical identity has left us. I was immediately drawn to the answer, 'You must try to see Me as I really am.' Baba had said this again and again. Once again, I faced my real task, my essence: the constant experiencing of that question, 'Who am I?' Knowing my true self and seeing Baba as he really is seemed powerfully to be the same experience."

•      "Adi Irani came up and talked to us that night. His booming voice again gave me the strange feeling that Baba himself was talking to us. I remember he said, 'Baba has only turned his back on us for a little while.' Then I cried again. . . .