Meher Baba Life Timeline: 1936-1948

	1936	Begins Rahuri ashram for mast and mad (8 months until April 1937)– October: 9th visit to the West (London, Zurich, Paris) – Dec. Nasik Ashram - 20 western disciples
	1937	After 7 months at Nasik sends Western disciples to France to prepare for his visit to Cannes with select men and women mandali and Muhammad mast – July 31 sailed for Cannes with six of the women mandali (first time bringing them to the west) 10th visit to west– motor trip to Paris (apartment of Alfredo and Consuelo Sides) -Paris World Fair Baba circled by car without going inside – November returned to India – western women join ashram on the hill – Kitty, Norina, Rano– four months later Elizabeth and Nonny joined the ashram
	1937 - 1949	WWII / India partition / Baba and select mandali (Baidul, Kaka, Eruch, Vishnu baggage & Chagan cooking), on intensive mast tours – 80,000 miles to contact 20,000 masts (most “ordinary”) – Wayfarers published 1948 – intervals of fast and seclusion
	1938 Dec. - 1941 Dec.	Blue Bus Tours – up to 30 women disciples from East & West – tours focused on Baba contacting masts located by men mandali – between tours Kitty, Elizabeth, Norina, Rano, Nadine, Irene, Margaret living on Meherabad Hill with Mehera, Mani, Naja, Khorshed, Mansari, Masi, Valu, Gulmai - Meher Baba Journal with discourses from Baba, edited & published by Elizabeth from India
	1939	Mast ashram Bangalore
	1938 Dec.- 1941 Dec.	Mast ashrams – Baba planned and supervised seven main mast ashrams and these were maintained at different places such as Ajmer, Jabalpur, Bangalore, Meherabad, Ranchi, Mahableshwar and Satara.
	1940	Baba holds 7-day birthday celebrations in honor of Upasani Maharaj (longest birthday celebrations ever held by Baba and mandali)
	1941	Elizabeth, Norina , and Nadine sent to West to find site for Baba’s Center in the West – October: Baba’s last meeting with Upasani Maharaj – December: Maharaj drops the body – Baba and mandali at Kumbha Mela Allahabad touching feet of 7,000 sadhus in one day
	1942	wartime travel for contact with masts – seclusions – giving lists of instructions to followers to participate in his work
	1943	Shireen dies Feb. 25 – March public darshans at Sholapur, Barsi, and Akkalkot as many as 50,000 at some darshans – Oct. visit Calcutta during terrible famine – feeding program – Baba incognito, fed about 325 middle class who had fallen on hard times – from a private room he handed out the food to each – handed out 10,000 blessed chapatis to poor in the streets
	1944-1949	Baba and some men & women mandali spending time at Pimpalgaon
	1944	intensive mast trips during the war – early June Baba makes Margaret to throw Gesu the pet cat out in the storm (Allies had been delaying invasion of France due to bad weather – they launched D-Day June 6) – Kaikobad and his family move to Meherabad – public darshans in various places – meetings called for various ones for various purposes
	1945	Hyderabad contacting masts – continues giving darshans and calling meetings
	1947	January fasting and seclusion at Meherabad – Kaikobad’s cabin for 40 days surounded by tata fence - Ali Shah brought to work with Baba daily – shifts to Pimpalgaon for last half of fast/seclusion – December again toured Hydrabad contacting masts – returned and went into seclusion seclusion on Tembi Hill in two huts with Ali Shah
	1948	Allahabad Kumbha Mela Baba touches feet of 4,000 sadhus in one morning (7 advanced)