He would always share the stolen goodies with his playmates.

Incidents continued to occur which reinforced his family and neighbor's opinion of Merwan's uniqueness. One day Merwan was walking down the street on his way to a nearby field. Suddenly, a herd of large water buffaloes came stampeding down the street toward him. Shireen shouted warnings to him, thinking her son was about to be crushed to death. The buffaloes charged straight toward him, but something quite miraculous occurred.

Some spectators said that one moment the child was about to be trampled, but then they saw him sitting in the street, and the buffaloes just avoided him — running to either side of him. Other spectators claimed that one buffalo stopped suddenly in the street and hovered over the child, protecting him from the rest that were stampeding. Still others claimed that at one moment they saw Merwan trampled by the buffaloes, but the next moment they saw him safely standing on the other side of the street as the herd charged by. Whatever the true account, all were astounded by Merwan's miraculous escape.

Another son was born on 15 September 1902, who was named Jal.

Sheriarji and Shireenmai (as they came to be called out of respect) were destined to have nine children — seven sons and two daughters. Of these, three died in childhood: a son name Shirmand at seven months; another son named Jehangir at two years; and a daughter named Freni, who died of the plague circa 1905 at the age of seven. 

Merwan (Meher Baba), his elder sister Freni, his older brother Jamshed circa 1898-1899

On Monday, 1 September 1902, at the age of eight, Merwan was admitted to the Sardar Khan Dastur Noshirwan Zoroastrian School in the Camp (cantonment) area, which he attended for a year. In the Pudumjee School, boys and girls were taught separately, but in the Dastur School, classes were coeducational. Merwan did not like it. He felt shy in front of girls. The very first day of school, when he went home for lunch, he refused to go back in the afternoon. Despite entreaties from his mother, he would not reveal the reason for his attitude.

Later that same day when Jamshed came home, he informed Memo that Merwan did not want to go to the Dastur School because of the presence of girls in the class. Shireenmai confronted Merwan but he would not be swayed.