On the morning of 29 October, Baba called John Haynes to Guruprasad first because the it was his 15th birthday. Adi brought him from the Turf Club. In Guruprasad, John was greeted by Baba with a birthday hug.
John later recollected:
It was as if after meeting Baba in 1958 I had gone to sleep and woken up the next day to get another hug. Those four years were nothing. They were just a blink of an eye. It was unbelievable to me, as if I had never left him at all. I was so overcome with gladness to see him, I just wanted to embrace him, to see his eyes and feel that warmth again.
In fact, John Haynes was so happy as he backed away from Baba to sit down by his feet, he almost tripped over the Maharani of Baroda! Baba looked at the young man and proudly raised his hands in graduated steps, inquiring, “How tall you have grown since I saw you last. Do you have any questions for me? Is there anything you want to ask?” John had come to India full of intellectual questions, but after seeing Baba, all his questions were answered. He later recalled:
It is not as if my mind went blank. I can honestly say I did not have any questions at all. There were none to ask. It wasn’t confusion. There simply was no need to ask any. Baba took them away.
For that brief moment, Baba for the first time let me see his authority, his power, his strength; whereas before, I had seen him as all-love, as Jesus. I saw that he was in complete control, and I knew that he had an understanding, a divine mission that we had talked about in meetings but which I had trouble intellectually understanding. He let me, for just a second, see that, and as a result, my questions just faded away. I knew that I was in his hands, and because I was in his hands there was no need to worry about what college I was going to attend or anything else.
John Haynes just smiled and said, “No Baba, I am just so happy to be with you.
I don’t have any questions.” Baba beamed and gestured, “That is good.” Baba gave him a tin of candy as a birthday present and sent him back to the Turf Club with Adi.
-www.lordmeher.org, p4830
29 Oct, 1962; East-West Gathering, Guruprasad