Along the voyage, Baba was eager to meet Gandhi and would often repeat, "It is always like this: when I don't allow visitors, people complain and ask, 'Why don't you allow us to see you?' And now when I want to see certain persons for my own reasons, they don't show any inclination. Now we should forget about trying to contact Gandhi. It is too late now."

Later, expressing his concern, Baba remarked, "Gandhi is a good man, but it will be better if he sees me. It would be to his great benefit. I love him dearly and I would like to meet with him for his own good."

Meanwhile, Jamshed Mehta, who was an acquaintance of Gandhi, cabled Gandhi on board the ship, urging him to meet Meher Baba without fail. On the night of September 8th, at nine o'clock, Mahatma Gandhi came to Meher Baba's cabin with his secretary Mahadev Desai. After Gandhi was introduced to Baba, he looked at Baba and then said, "I have read much about you and wanted to see you one day when God willed it; but I never expected it to be so soon."

Baba expressed how happy he was meeting Gandhi and dictated from his alphabet board: "Do you have the time to stay?"

"Yes, I have come to sit and listen," Gandhi replied.

Gandhi talked about meeting Upasni Maharaj at Sakori, and Baba explained to him in detail about Maharaj and Hazrat Babajan. Baba ended by dictating, "Upasni Maharaj is my Master and a Perfect Sadguru."

According to Baba's instructions in 1924, Rustom had sent Gandhi a copy of Upasni Maharaj's biography in Gujarati – Protector of the Poor. After reading the book, Gandhi went to Sakori to see Maharaj. But Maharaj was not in a welcoming mood that day and abused Gandhi, shouting, "Who says you are a Mahatma? You are someone great, but what is that to me!" Upset by Maharaj's abusive language, Gandhi left with a very disturbed impression of the heralded sage of Sakori.

Meher Baba narrated a summary of his own life and experiences to Gandhi – his attraction to Hazrat Babajan, Sai Baba's pronouncement, his encounter with Maharaj at the