During these seven days Mecca was flooded and closed for this exact period of Meher Baba's darshan after he dropped his physical form.[6] All India Radio mistakenly announced Baba's passing as 10:00 P.M. on the 31st (his actual time of death was 12:15 P.M.). The next day, announcements were made on the radio several times during the day and BBC also broadcast the news. True to Meher Baba's words, in death he gave darshan in a reclining position during the summer of 1969 in what became known as The Last Darshan.[7]