time. Baba helped to make me look nice and gave me the right words, so I got six exits and re-entries at one time, and this on a Saturday when offices used to be closed. Well, when Baba turns the key, things happen. One wonderful trip we made to Maloja on the Maloja Pass, not very far from St. Moritz. There my mother came over from Lenzeheide, where she gave summer-school (after my father's death in 1940, she made use of her degrees at 53 years of age and became a teacher.) My mother was so happy to meet Baba, she had met Baba in Zurich several times, before I had met Baba in Cannes. In a nice hotel, I had ordered lunch, for Baba only soft food, as Baba's jaw had also been fractured in the accident in U.S.A. Rano and Goher had also been with us. I had my two nephews with me, the elder one I lodged in a pension and the smaller one, Conrad, stayed with the Mandali, and was Baba's little night watchman. Baba said he was a fine boy. He has a nice family now and is a landscape architect in Germany.

Meherjee and Sarosh had to leave earlier for India. When we decided to leave for India, via Geneva airport, we drove via Domodosla and the Simplon pass, then Lake Geneva. It was a wonderful drive. We stayed at the hotel Cornavin. When Donkin and I wanted to check the flight, we learned that there was a disturbance at the Bombay airport, because of the ground-crew. Baba sent Donkin and me at short intervals to the travel office; we felt quite awkward, as they looked at us if we were not quite right in our heads. It was Baba's work and so we went. We had long discussions of possibilities of returning to India, also money was slowly getting short. The only solution was to fly via Pakistan. But for this all should again have visas and appear personally to the legation in Berne. I was known in the legation. When Nehru had come to Switzerland in 1952, they gave a big reception. I was invited too. Nehru was introduced to important people, then suddenly he walked off and headed straight to me and greeted me (though no one told him). I then said I was happy to greet him, as India was like my home, having stayed eight years in the ashram of Meher Baba. He said he knew about Baba and seemed very pleased. Of course others had seen this. So I telephoned again to the legation asking for a particular person, and said I would come with Major Donkin and would bring all the passports and they should give me all visas, which they did. (At the time Pakistan had no consulate or legation in Switzerland). From Geneva after Baba had left, Donkin came with me to Zurich and stayed in the home of my mother and myself; later he went to England, before returning to India.

On 2nd October, 1938 Baba gave us a talk on the duty of looking cheerful. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone," he quoted. If you don’t want to be old before you really ought to become old, be cheerful in deed, thought, word and in appearance - most of all appearance. Maybe you are not happy inside - perhaps gas is in your stomach - but you must look happy. I always find half of you garlic-faced. When you eat garlic it is a smell passed on to all, so when you appear garlic-faced, that too is catching — it is contagious. It is a divine art to always look cheerful. It is a divine quality. It helps others. When you are garlic-faced it makes others unhappy. If you take me as God, God's word must be your everything. You must follow my word with all your heart. If not, it is just an everyday topic. You take me as God, but you do not follow me as God."

The Surprise 7th October, 1938 — from Baba:

The surprise has four items. One surprise — 4 items, and each item will take one minute.

The surprise is 4 minutes.

1st Item: from October 15th to December (2 months) one day I stay up and one day I stay down (i.e., the day I go down I return between 12 to 2 p.m.)

2nd Item: December 15th we all leave Meherabad for another place, a big city and stay for one month till Jan. 15th (and maybe if it is my work this one month, that we are out in a big city, we might put up in a palace — most ideal situation.)