6553   LOVE, SERVICE, FAITH & HONESTY

  1. Bhikaiji Desai (member of large Parsi family – Navsari)
  2. Baijimai Boman Desai  (Soma Desai's sister – Navsari)
  3. Mrs. Anna Jakkal (wife of Anna 104 – Ahmednagar)
  4. Rawatmani (Aunt, wife of Shireenmai's brother, Dinshaw)
  5. Chingutai (Kalemama's daughter – Ahmednagar)
  6. Pila Homi (Homi Satha's wife – Ahmednagar)
  7. Khorshedmai Damania (nicknamed "Fuimai" – means "Father's sister")
  8. Maina Patel (Sadashiv's daughter – died young)
  9. Jeejabai (Sadashiv Patel's mother–in–law – Poona)

As the years followed and close ones passed on, Baba added the names of other men and women, such as:

  • Gustadji Hansotia (Baba's best friend and "Shadow" – God-realized upon death in 1958 at Meherazad)
  • Daulatmai (Mehera J. and Freiny J. Irani's saintly mother)
  • Gulmai K. Irani (Baba's "Spiritual mother" – Ahmednagar)
  • Rustom K. Irani (Adi K. Irani's elder brother, hermit in Rishikesh)
  • Dr. Nilu Godse (killed in Udtara auto accident, 1956 – died in Baba's physical presence, as he wished)
  • Papa Jessawala (birthname Byramshaw – Eruch's father)
  • Vishnu Deorukhar (under Baba's guidance since teenager – reincarnation of the French Emperor Napoleon I)
  • Gabriel Pascal (Hollywood film director, Baba's "Phoenix")
  • Malcolm Schloss (poet – co–founder with Jean Adriel of Meher Mount in Ojai, California in 1948)
  • Norina Matchabelli (co–founder with Elizabeth Patterson of the Myrtle Beach, S.C. Center in 1945)
  • Terry Duce (Ivy O. Duce's husband – big oil businessman)
  • Will and Mary Backett (Baba's "Archangels" – England)
  • Charles Purdom (literary scholar, biographer and editor)
  • Douglas Eve (friend of Charles Purdom in London)
  • Warren Healey (printed literature about Baba in America)
  • Beryl Williams (New Yorker, distributed Baba's photographs in America send from India by sister Mani)

After Eruch read out the entire list, a prayer dictated by Baba was then recited before him:

"O God, grant these departed lovers of mine
their just rewards in proportion
to their love, service, faith and honesty."