During his lifetime, Meher Baba was most fastidious in the care that he provided for guests who came to participate in his sahavas or darshan programs. In the Trust Deed he specified that his Trust should provide facilities for pilgrims from throughout the world who come for darshan at his Tomb-Shrine at Meherabad. As he said, Meherabad and Meherazad will one day become major focuses of world pilgrimage. No Trust object is more important than caring for the physical needs of visitors as they approach the God-Man to seek their share of the divine inheritance of love.

In the years immediately after Meher Baba dropped his physical form in 1969, Trust facilities at Meherabad allowed for the accommodation of only a handful of pilgrims at a time. In 1980 the Pilgrim Centre in Lower Meherabad opened, providing food and lodging for 56 pilgrims; and in the following years the Dharamshala and the Hostels increased the capacity. The newest facility, Meher Pilgrim Retreat, located at Upper Meherabad to the north of Meher Baba's Samadhi accommodates 200 pilgrims; and the Trust’s Development Plan projects the construction of further facilities after this.

The following message from Meher Baba is posted prominently in the Meher Pilgrim Retreat:

I may give you more, much more than you expect, or maybe nothing, and that nothing may prove to be everything. So I say, come with open hearts to receive much or nothing from the Divine Beloved. Come to receive not so much of My words but of My Silence.

— Meher Baba