On Saturday, 22 August 1931, (Jamshed) Mehta informed Baba that Mahatma Gandhi might also be traveling to England, but it was looking extremely doubtful at this stage. Baba replied, “If I go to England, I will take Gandhi with me. You simply expedite the passport work.” The next day, Baba repeated the same thing about Gandhi.
In September, a Round Table Conference was scheduled to take place in London about India’s independence, but it was uncertain whether Mahatma Gandhi would attend. At the last moment, he agreed and, when it was announced that he would be sailing to England on the SS Rajputana, Chanji and Mehta grasped the significance of Baba’s earlier comments, and Chanji realized why they had not been able to travel on the earlier ship.
About his trip, Mahatma Gandhi told newspaper reporters, “I must go to London with God as my only guide.”
The visa work continued. The British authorities had endorsed Baba’s passport with a visa on 25 July, but Mehta was informed that Baba would be required to sign a “guarantee” (perhaps in relation to Ali, who was a minor). Even Mehta with all his influence as mayor of Karachi found it impossible to convince the British authorities to issue all the documents to Meher Baba without his signature. At last, Baba consented to sign, but before doing so, he remarked ominously, “The British government is compelling me to sign its own death warrant! This will be the end of the British Empire in India.”
At 4:30 P.M. on 25 August, Baba executed a bond in the commissioner’s office in Karachi and, with a grim expression, signed Meherban Sheheriyar Irani to the typed guarantee. The British government had unknowingly dug its own grave and their rule in India slowly started to topple as a result.
Lord Meher, Online Version pp. 1231 – 1232.