After Meher Baba departed from this physical plane, Bhau was in a distressed state for several months. Gradually, he recovered from the shock of Meher Baba's physical departure and began collecting more detailed information about Meher Baba's life. Bhau started writing at Meherabad where Padri, Sidhu, Mansari and other close ones gave their lifetime accounts. Then at Meherazad, too, each man and woman mandali, Eruch, Pendu, Aloba, Mehera, Mani, Naja and other close ones contributed their life stories with Baba. Afterward Bhau stayed in Ahmednagar where he began to compile the vast amount of documents, letters, diaries and messages that had been kept over the previous forty-five years by Meher Baba's two secretaries, Feram Dadachanji (known as Chanji) and later Adi K. Irani. Bhau then spent considerable time in Poona, Bombay and other places gathering more information. Feram Workingboxwala, another close disciple who was an assistant to Adi K. Irani, was of invaluable help to Bhau with organization and translation.

Feram Workingboxwala, the translator of the biography into English
with the author, Bhau Kalchuri, during 1976 in Ahmednagar, India club