Daily Messages

In the blackness of the very early morning of April 3rd, (1950) at 3 A.M., Baba left Motichur for Hardwar on foot, accompanied by Eruch, Pendu, Baidul and Gustadji. Near the area of Nildhara, he contacted recluses, renunciants and sadhus for eleven continuous hours. The total number that day was an overwhelming figure – two thousand nine hundred and sixty-five! …

Baba had directed the Westerners to do an hour of meditation each morning. On April 2nd, (1937) before leaving for Meherabad, he urged them to take the meditation seriously, and he also stressed to them that they should always think of him in everything they did. He stated: Try to do it very, very seriously as if your very spiritual …

When Baba was out looking for masts on Mukamma Ghat in Batanagar on April 1st, (1948) an amusing incident took place. Baba was conversing with Baidul, Chhagan, Eruch, Gustadji and Kaka. As Gustadji was keeping silence, he was “talking” with his fingers, and Eruch, who was the most adept at putting his gestures into words, was interpreting for Baba. Because …

As instructed, on Sunday, March 31st, (1963) Sohrabji Siganporia and Kishanchand Gajwani arrived at Guruprasad from Bombay. Gajwani wanted to live with Baba permanently. Upon seeing the two men, Baba first asked Gajwani, “Do you want me or God?” Gajwani replied, “You, Baba!” “Then will you do as I tell you?” With folded hands, Gajwani said, “Yes, Baba.” “You should …

(March 1963) Although I have infinite knowledge, infinite power and infinite bliss at my disposal, as the God-Man I do not use my infinite power and bliss for my Avataric work. Otherwise, how could I experience the helplessness of the whole world? I suffer infinitely for humanity to relieve them of suffering, for it is for their sake that I …

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 …

In late March, Meher Baba responded to a letter from Ivy Duce dated February 15th, 1948. Baba’s letter, dictated through Dr. Ghani, covered several topics Ivy Duce had raised. Baba also repeated specific instructions he gave Ivy Duce six weeks earlier during their January meeting at Meherazad. The most relevant points are presented here: March 29th, 1948 Dear Mrs. Ivy …

On March 30th (1930), some devotees came to Nasik to see Baba who expounded on the nature of love to them:Love me and you will know me; but I am such a Reality that it is extremely difficult to know me. The price is love. No repetition of God’s name, no penance and no meditation is necessary – only love, …

In the evening of March 31st, (1927) after his return from attending a bhajan-kirtan music program in Ahmednagar at the railway colony, Baba gathered the mandali near the dhuni and explained: Hafiz has compared the body with a pot, the soul with smoke, and the sanskaras with a huge stone lying on top of the pot. For all its attempts, …

(March 1938) . . . a five-foot-long snake was seen outside the kitchen with a sparrow in its mouth. Baba was called, and he came with a few of the men. One man struck the snake on its back, and it released the sparrow which flew away. Baba gave the final killing blow, crushing its head. Later in the evening …

At Shahane’s house on March 25th, (1926) Meher Baba gave the following discourse on intelligence – the use of knowledge by the mind in the state of thinking:Intelligence not thinking is unconsciousness and may be likened to sound sleep. Thinking and imagination are latent in intelligence. When intelligence thinks of Itself, it realizes Its Self and is God. When it thinks about …

Three days later, on March 25th,(1958) Baba held another darshan program when the Poona bhajan group had the opportunity of offering a musical recital before him. A contingent of lovers from Calcutta also came for three days. Among them was a high court judge named P. K. Sarkar, who met Baba for the first time with his family and was …

DADA T. L. VASWANI, age seventy-eight, was a former college professor of English and history who had renounced all to serve humanity. He was called “Sadhu” and had established and was running the Saint Mira School in Poona, and was regarded by many to be a saint. There was a longstanding invitation from him to Baba to visit the school. Not …

Jai Baba ! We are delighted to announce that on coming Sunday, 23rd March, the Chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahilyanagar, will be visiting our Bombay Centre to share his (Dadachanji and Mistry families’) connections with Beloved Baba. On this occasion, he will also officially inaugurate the Centre’s recently acquired adjoining premises. The Sunday Satsang …

Thus there were many who wanted Baba’s darshan, and so March 23rd (1953) (a public holiday for Ram’s birthday) was fixed for the purpose. The darshan was publicized in the newspapers, but Baba forbade erection of a canopy, and decided to give darshan in the hall of the mandali’s quarters. The time fixed for darshan was from 8 to 11 …

March 21st (1955) was the Parsi New Year of Jamshed-e-Navroz. On this festival, it is customary to have a sweet, cool drink made with milk called falooda. When Baba came to Rosewood, he told Bhau to go back to Grafton to bring the drink. Bhau thought some servant would be there to carry the large pot of liquid, but as …

Jai Baba ! We are delighted to announce that on coming Sunday, 23rd March, the Chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahilyanagar, will be visiting our Bombay Centre to share his (Dadachanji and Mistry families’) connections with Beloved Baba. On this occasion, he will also officially inaugurate the Centre’s recently acquired adjoining premises. The Sunday Satsang …

On March 21st (1936), when Mehendarge received news of his brother’s demise, he wept. Baba took him aside, stating: This life, body and death are all Maya, and to weep over the death of someone is ignorance. Remember, Maya does not mean this world and its affairs. The illusion that this world and everything in it is real – and of feeling …

Meanwhile, Keshav Nigam had written asking if he and all Baba’s lovers and devotees in the Hamirpur district should participate in a havan yagna  (sacred Hindu fire ceremony) organized by a yogi named Yogiraj Dharma Dhruwa Gaur for the propagation of Truth. On hearing Keshav’s letter, Baba gave a poignant reply through Eruch on March 18th: (1959) I know all about …

On March 18th, (1955) Baba began signing approximately five hundred title pages of the book God Speaks, soon to be published in America. (1) The following is the promotional book review of God Speaks written by the scholar W. Y. Evans-Wentz, entitled The Uniqueness and Paramount Value of God Speaks: No other Teacher in our own time or in any known …

(March 1942) The following is the message that was delivered to the world leaders and that Meher Baba wanted them to read: (1) The Need for Creative Leadership in India Throughout the hoary ages of the past, India has played the most prominent part in shaping the spiritual history of humanity. She has been a home of Avatars, Prophets, Masters, …

Savak Kotwal had quit his job in Bombay and was preparing to go off to the Himalayas. His wife, Nargis, wrote to Meher Baba in Bangalore. In February, Baba called Savak to him. When he arrived, Baba informed him, “If you find a better Guru than me in the Himalayas, you may go; otherwise, come and stay with me.” Savak was only waiting to …

During March, 1936, the question of whether or not to establish an ashram in Mysore was being seriously discussed between Baba and the mandali. However, Baba expressed that the people of Mysore were far too traditionally religious-minded and since they were so entangled in orthodox religiosity, it would be difficult to free them of their narrow-minded prejudices so his ashram …