Did we deserve it? Anyway, we had all tried our best.

Eruch says: "You are now with Baba. Do whatever you wish to do". Someone plays the guitar . . . softly.

Silently, now, each one approaches the chair . . . each in his own way, love for Baba in the very posture of each one, standing, kneeling, sitting or waiting for their 'turn'.

And just then—the movement caught my eye--Baba walked thru the crowd, laying His hand on the head of this one—patting the shoulder of that one . . . He was young, beautiful . . . then I started to choke, cry, for the first time during darshan. I hung my head and the tears blurred everything. I felt His love in my heart, so strong it started pounding . . . I didn't expect anything at all like this, though I had seen him before, in His 'subtle' body, as many people do. It's not the sight that gets you, so much as the overpowering love, and as I looked around I saw everyone was feeling it . . . each in his own way. As Eruch said: Love, and Love alone, is the Real Darshan.

Outside, on the veranda, we had a chance to chat with the mandali. Aloba told us of the man, in Iran, who dreamed of Baba being in a certain house in his town, saying 'I am the Avatar of the Age, I am on earth, I am in this house'. When the man awoke, he recognized the house, went there and the owner said, "Yes, this is Baba's house, we hold weekly meetings here, but Baba is in India now". So the man began to read, to correspond with the mandali and became a Baba lover. Also, a man in that town was arrested for saying 'Meher Baba is God'. But a Sufi judge acquitted him.

Aloba continued: "Baba is God. If a man holds on to His Daaman to his last breath, he succeeds, that is the best thing. Holding on is like a signed check. It is not difficult. To love Baba, to hold onto His Daaman, to get Baba's grace on us is the real aim of life."

"To love Baba and disobey Him is not loving Baba. To love Baba for the sake of wants is not loving Baba. To love Baba and to expect nothing—that is the thing. It is not necessary to ask Baba for anything—just love Him, that is the best. Instead of expressing our needs to Baba, it's better to ask Him for love and obedience."

Aloba was a student in the Babajan School at Meherazad in 1927. Baba (at that time staying in the Tomb) called him at 9 o'clock to bring two books, one English and one other in Persian. He read one lesson from each book, then his uncle came and Baba handed him over to the uncle. He also told us he had three successive dreams that brought him to Baba at age 17. Also one day at Meherazad Baba's car had gone to Ahmednagar. He climbed Pimpalgaon Hill for fresh air, then saw Baba's car coming very fast. He ran down the hill, but no car was there. Half-an-hour later Baba did return.

Seeing Baba in a vision is right, Aloba said. Baba's reappearance is not impossible, for Him it would be child's play. "Baba will reappear," he said. "I think when the right time comes Baba will speak out the Word. Baba will reappear everywhere,—it's my firm belief—because the whole world has to change. Baba is God. A voice will come from God, a manifestation will take place in Baba's form; whether it will be audible with the physical ear or the heart's ear, I don't know. The time is rapidly coming when the whole world will say "Christ ". We should call God, then He comes. If the whole world does not call for God, He won't respond. The child must cry, make a storm in the mother's heart, then the mother goes to it."

Ralph Hernandez asked: "Do you have any regrets?"

"Sometimes I think I could have had a beautiful wife, children; even this thought is absolutely false, but it comes. We have to drive it away. The only prosperous one is the man whom Baba loves, and the one who loves Baba. Even though my relatives think I spoiled my worldly life, I have gained much. If you have money, money goes away. But to have Baba's daaman is such a great thing, we cannot measure it. We don't know how very fortunate we are —only Baba knows. If a gold ball is cut, it is all gold.

"Baba is God in human form, and is also formless. If you worship a statue, or photo, garland it, it goes direct to Him; or if you constantly remember Him, call Him Meher or Baba, it's the same. The only real thing in life is to serve Baba. If a coolie offers a pice to Baba with love, it counts as much as crores of rupees. A small flower at Baba's Tomb counts as much as big wreathes—".