The Nothing and the Everything

I had the privilege of serving Avatar Meher Baba as His nightwatchman since 1955. I joined Meher Baba as a young man of twenty-three. It was in 1955 on nightwatch that the thought first came to me that I would write books about the Avatar, though I had never written before, having been educated as a lawyer and an agriculturist. My initiation with books was the organizing of the material for God Speaks. Since 1959, at Meher Baba's request, I wrote several books in Hindi that have been published in India. The Nothing and the Everything is the first book that I wrote in English. In fact it was Baba Himself who polished my English by having me read the newspaper to Him on nightwatch.