Bhau returned to Meherazad for the commemoration of Meher Baba's silence and during Silence Day, July 10th, 1971, he felt he must begin to write. Although Meher Baba had asked him to write the biography in verse, Bhau still did not have any conception of the rhyming meters. As he read through his notes, he thought that before composing the biography in verse he should first write everything in the proper sequence in prose. In his secluded room at Meherazad, which he seldom left, he wrote for up to eighteen hours a day until MEHER PRABHU was finished. He wrote continuously, filling nineteen handwritten volumes, and completed the prose manuscript for the entire biography in only seven months!

During May of 1972, Bhau became inspired and started writing MEHER DARSHAN, the epic of Meher Baba's life in verse, and again he wrote continuously. People would inquire how long he anticipated it would take to finish and Bhau would jokingly answer, "More than twenty years!" since other poets in India had taken that long to compose comparable works. Yet, almost miraculously, Bhau was able to complete the entire epic poem in less than four months – 14,000 poetic couplets – 28,000 lines of rhyme! (The first edition of MEHER DARSHAN was finally published in 1985 and is sung by the people in Hamirpur.)

During the ensuing five months, Bhau completed the book THE NOTHING AND THE EVERYTHING from the points Baba had given; he then wrote a play based on the book entitled THE ANCIENT ONE. He wrote THE HISTORY OF MEHERABAD and an explanation of THE NEW LIFE. On January 24th, 1973, four years to the day that Meher Baba had given him instructions for the biography, Bhau took all his manuscripts and placed them on the cushion of Meher Baba's chair in Mandali Hall, symbolically placing it at his Master's feet.

Bhau Kalchuri became an official trustee of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Trust in Ahmednagar shortly after this and became actively involved in all its affairs. Since 1974, more information or details in the form of diaries, letters, notes, as well as various personal accounts from many eastern and western followers who knew Meher Baba, have been included where appropriate.

The power and impact of all that Bhau Kalchuri has written has its origin in Meher Baba's divine authority, as Avatar of the Age, and his orders to the author.

David Fenster
Ahmednagar, 1985