Glimpses of the God-Man, Meher Baba - Avatar Meher Baba Trust

26 GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN
I was traveling with my father in a second-class compartment
on a mail train from Jhansi to Bombay. Meher Baba
coincidentally got into the same compartment with a few of His
disciples, at Deolali or perhaps Nasik Road. I was deeply
moved by His personality but I did not know then who He was.
At Bombay I learned from my father that the impressive
personality was Meher Baba. As the years passed I completely
forgot about that incident. The news in the local papers revived
this memory and I felt a strong pull within me to see Meher
Baba in person, but by this time He had already left Sholapur.
This occurrence, however, was instrumental in kindling the
desire to know more about Him.
Then a "miracle" happened! Miracle in the sense that the
cause of the episode remains unknown even to this date, or else
it is plain coincidence. One of my neighbors, Kakasaheb
Ghatnekar, who was working as a ticket collector for the
Railways, was not much interested in reading. One day,
however, while visiting a hotel near the station, he met a person
who had a new book in his hand. Impulsively Ghatnekar
inquired about the book. It was the life of Meher Baba, written
by Deshmukh in the Marathi language. Ghatnekar asked the
person if he would lend him that book, and strangely enough the
man happily parted with it and left the hotel. They did not know
each other nor did they introduce themselves. My neighbor
immediately handed the book over to me. The man who owned
it never contacted Ghatnekar again to get back his new book.
Thus, in a sense, began my life with Meher Baba.
Correspondence with Meher Baba
After reading the biography of Meher Baba, I felt that He could
be the One whom I should contact. His philosophy and
teachings, from my limited capacity of understanding,