DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

BABA IS GOD-CONSCIOUS

23rd January 1922

Later, Meher Baba expressed to visit Mandwa ( 105 kms / 65 miles South of Bombay, a coastal town  ) and asked Munshi to telegram certain people in Poona and Lonavla to invite them to join him on that journey ; Munshi, Dalv*i, Lateef, Gustadji, Baily, Ghani, Abdulla Haroon Jaffer* and a professional singer all accompanied Baba on a coastal steamer from Bombay to Mandwa, about an hour's journey, on 23rd January 1922.

After disembarking they walked to the bungalow which was rented by Dalvi. They all stayed here for 3 days and during this time, Meher Baba referred to himself as being a God-Conscious Master, a Sadguru or Qutub and remarked for the first time, that the ones present, were his close ones or 'mandali' .

The men out of respect began to refer to Meher Baba as Master or Baba.