Before they got their bearings, they found themselves swimming in the ocean of lovers outside the hall.

A few lovers had come from Iran. One buxom woman from that group sobbed unabashed near Baba and had to be lifted up from Baba's feet.

Every mother with her baby coming for darshan would hold aloft her child for Baba to touch. For Baba this entailed bending forward each time. The sever shooting root pains due to the cervical spondylosis failed to register on his cheerful face. Baba turned to me and pointing to his neck, gestured, "The pain is very severe, yet how cheerful I look." None of those who came for his darshan could have dreamed that Baba was in agony for he looked so radiant and cheerful.

Meher Baba turned to Joseph Harb, who was sitting in the first row looking ill, and inquired about his health. Baba asked whether he had any pain in his chest and he had. He asked us to lift Joseph on a chair and take him to a doctor. So Joseph had to leave the venue of joy. (He had recovered by next day and attended the remainder of the sahavas.)

It was impossible for all lovers to file past Baba, as the Arti had to be sung at 10.30. Baba called for Ramakrishnan and asked him to allow big batches of his lovers onto the balcony in the hall in turns so that they could at least have a good glimpse of Baba. Every batch that came onto the balcony cheered, and Baba would wave to them and gesture that all should come the next day to Guruprasad.

At 10.30 about 4,000 lovers sang Baba's Arti. After Arti all joined in loud cheering for the Avatar of the age. Baba was lifted from the dais on His chair and carried to the waiting car. The car slowly moved through the thronged lane. Baba sat with folded hands as the car crawled along. At the gate, the car gathered momentum and disappeared into the streets of Poona heading on its way to Guruprasad.

In the afternoon at 4:00, Baba gave darshan to a busload of lovers from Hamirpur who had been detained en route due to engine trouble and so had missed darshan in the morning at the Poona Centre. Some lovers from Kanpur were also seen by Baba in the afternoon. They may have been called because there was a bit of discontentment in their hearts as, being roughly pushed around in the frenzied crowd that morning they had missed darshan.

Most people in India have an oriental conception of time and if you demand punctuality you may become apoplectic with frustration. But with Baba lovers this was quite untrue.