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THE GRACE OF A PERFECT MASTER

THE NEXT DAY, June 5th, (1927) Baba went with a few of the mandali to Aurangabad, and from there proceeded to the Ellora Caves and the area called Khuldabad. While drinking tea at Khuldabad, Baba disclosed, “The tomb of Sai Baba’s Master Zarzari Bakhsh is in Khuldabad.” When asked how this could be since Zarzari Bakhsh actually lived hundreds of years prior …

HOW FORTUNATE WAS DR. BURLESON

The whole incident made a deep impression on Dr. Burleson, (the doctor who treated Baba and His women mandali after the first auto accident in Prague)and he recorded some of his thoughts in a letter to Baba dated June 3rd, 1952: … From you and your party we have seen a demonstration of most of the teachings of Christ. Many Americans …

HISTORY OF AVATAR MEHER BABA’S DARBAR POSE

    History of Avatar Meher Baba’s Darbar Pose   On Tuesday, 5 May 1959, an artist and professional photographer of Poona named D. D. Rege came to Guruprasad. He had previously written, requesting permission to photograph Baba. Permission was granted, but he was informed to come a day in advance of the actual taking of photographs. He told Baba …

OF WHAT USE IS MEHER BABA TO ME WHEN HE DOES NOT HELP ME ?

DURING THIS PERIOD, Ghani Munsiff was residing with his family in Lonavla. Ghani fell victim to a con-artist. Some property had been unscrupulously taken from him by fraud and the man who had done this had been murdered. Ghani was falsely accused of the murder and he became so depressed that he decided to commit suicide. On the night of …

STICK FIRMLY TO ONLY ONE MASTER AND CARRY OUT HIS WISHES

On June 2nd, (1928) the day before leaving Meherabad, Baba met privately with Minoo Pohowala. As Minoo was in the habit of going to one saint after another, Baba pointedly explained to him: When you sink a well, you first select a spot before beginning the drilling. But if you stop drilling halfway and start anew at a different spot, …

THE EASIEST AND SHORTEST WAY TO GOD-REALIZATION

(June 1926) …Baba explained about sahavas with a Master: The easiest and shortest way to God-Realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company, or sahavas, of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination. The second way is to repeat with …

THE ANSWER HAS BEEN SO SIMPLE THAT IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO GRASP

(May 31, 1932) Since arriving in America, I have been asked many times what solution I have brought for the social problems now confronting you – what did I have to offer that would solve the problems of unemployment, prohibition and crime that would eliminate the strife between individuals and nations, and pour a healing balm of peace upon a …

YOU DO NOT FIRMLY RESOLVE TO LEAD THE LIFE OF A REAL MAN

Baba asked Deshmukh to translate this into Marathi. Deshmukh hesitated on the grounds that it was a difficult task as the passage dealt with philosophy. Baba corrected him: Do not take this as a philosophical passage. It is not philosophy! It depicts Life Perennial. This is the life expected of a real man. The life that you lead is the life …

BABA GAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

(March 1953) THAT DAY, Harish Chander Kochar came before Baba for darshan. Daily, he would sit outside in front of Baba’s bungalow and consequently his mental and financial condition deteriorated. Baba stated, “Whatever you have to say, tell me in five minutes; and whatever you say, speak honestly.” “Free me of my mental anxieties,” Kochar requested, “and permit me to …

REMINDER – [Tavern-Talk] Trust Circular -Centenary Commemoration of Avatar Meher Baba’s Silence 1925-2025

AVATAR MEHER BABA PERPETUAL PUBLIC CHARITABLE TRUST Post Bag No. 31, King’s Road, Ahilyanagar – 414 001, Maharashtra State, INDIA Telephone No: (0241) 2343666/ 2347093/ 2974947 Ahilyanagar Office, 2548777 Meherabad Office.   28th March 2025.  “In the silence of your perfect surrender, My love, which is always silent, can flow to you — to be yours always to keep and to …

SAMADHI SUPER-STRUCTURE DESIGN SUBMISSION

TRUST CIRCULAR SAMADHI SUPER-STRUCTURE DESIGN SUBMISSION   Dear Sisters and Brothers in Avatar Meher Baba,   Avatar Meher Baba ki Jai! In establishing the Deed of the Avatar Meher Baba Trust, the Samadhi Super-Structure is the one feature Meher Baba designated explicitly for future development of the Trust Estate. His lovers are now presented with a unique opportunity to contribute …

WHO IS GREATER TUKARAM OR BHAGWAN?

On May 27th, (1926) Meher Baba discoursed on the Personal and Impersonal sides of God: The foremost and highest object in life is personally serving a Sadguru and complete surrenderance to him. The second is constant meditation on the divine name. The third is selfless service, and the fourth is the offering of worship (prayer). Serving a Sadguru is like …

DO NOT SEEK THEM ANYWHERE BUT WITHIN YOU

Baba had this discourse read on Planes of Consciousness in the Next Incarnation: Do persons on the spiritual planes of consciousness take birth having consciousness of the same plane? Yes, but the emergence of consciousness is very gradual, as when a person of gross consciousness dies and is reborn with consciousness of the gross world. The child gradually becomes aware, …

THE HEAD AND THE HAIR ON THE HEAD

Now we will listen to the discourses.” And this one about God and Cosmos was read out: (1) God is Infinite Reality; cosmos is infinite illusion. In infinite illusion there are infinite suns, stars, moons, planets and the creation as a whole evolves ad infinitum. For instance, take the head of a human being. The head is one, and there is one individual …

ALL THE THREE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD ARE LINKED WITH ONE ANOTHER

To experience your Real Self is the Goal. You are and you will ever be. There is no one else but you. Instantly, in a flash, you will know everything, including why you have no beginning and no end. But this knowing will have nothing whatsoever to do with mind, or reason, or logic. It is beyond mind. You know …

YOU ARE BORN ONCE, AND YOU REALLY DIE ONLY ONCE

Then a second discourse on Real Birth and Real Death was read: There is one real birth and one real death. You are born once, and you really die only once. What is real birth? It is the birth of a “drop” in the Ocean of Reality. What is meant by it? It is the advent of individuality, born of indivisibility through …

BABA IS FIRE

Dr. Ghani was staying with Baba in Mahabaleshwar. He was joking with Baba on May 22nd, (1947) and when he said something in a lighter vein about Baba, Baba at once composed this rhyme about himself as Fire: “Baba is Fire! When you feel cold And sit near the fire, It drives out your cold And makes you perspire. When you …

WHAT BABA MEANS BY ‘TO COME TO ME’

Charles Purdom asked, “Will you comment on what you mean by ‘to come to me’?” Baba replied: To come to me means liberation, experiencing me as I am, no more bondage of births and deaths. But it does not mean the state of a Perfect Master or Perfection. That is only to be attained while alive in the gross body. So if …

HERE WAS THE END – WHICH WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING

Hilda Thorpe of England was attending the sahavas with her son, Simon. On May 26th (1958), she wrote her other son, Anthony, [in New Zealand] about the sahavas and her first impressions of meeting Baba. The following is an extract from Hilda Thorpe’s letter: I don’t know how to write of this momentous experience which 220 of us are having …

EGO’S TRICKY NATURE

On May 18th(1960), a Shastri (Hindu priest) bowed to Baba and then sat down near his chair. He had also come the previous day when Baba was with the Hamirpur lovers. While the Shastri was there, Vishnu Sharma of Dhagwan entertained Baba by reciting his story, Chai Puran (Tale of Tea). The Shastri had left in the middle of the …