SOHRABJI SIGANPORIA AND KISHANCHAND GAJWANI – PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT RESPECTIVELY OF THE BOMBAY CENTRE SELECTED BY BELOVED BABA HIMSELF

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 …

HOW TO BEGIN LOVING ME?

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, …

PERFECT MASTERS AZAR KAIVAN AND MILAREPA

(March 1963) When the Parsis came back in the afternoon, Baba was drinking tea. He motioned to them to be seated and then started revealing to them about a Zoroastrian Perfect Master, the only one in recorded history: His name [in Persian] was Azar Kaivan. He came long after Prophet Zarathustra. He was so advanced that to get God-Realization, he laid down …

INTERNATIONAL MEHERABAD YOUNG ADULT SAHAVAS -2023

Jai Meher Baba International Meherabad Young Adult Sahavas 2023 Dear Baba Lovers, Sahavas participation forms are now available on the Trust website to fill and apply Application Forms Kindly visit AMBPPCT website, IMbYAS section for full details International Meherabad Young Adult Sahavas Please Note Age of participants should be between 18 years and 35 years. However, if anyone is in …

ASPI WAS THE ONLY ONE TO EMERGE FROM THE ORDEAL UNSCATHED

(March 1963) Later the same day, Army Major-General Bhandari and his wife, Kamla, arrived at Guruprasad to have Baba’s darshan. Goher and Katie’s brother, Aspi, was also a major in the army and during the recent Indo-Chinese War had been entrapped in a battle. Remembering him, Baba mentioned this and asked Eruch to relate what had happened to him during …

OBEDIENCE IS THE ESSENCE OF SPIRITUALITY

(March 1958) From Jabalpur, Amiya Kumar Hazra and Ram Lakhan Sharma were sent for by Baba. Hazra, in an attempt to humble his own ego, had given up his job as a college professor and was serving as an apprentice soapstone carver in Bhedaghat, about thirteen miles from Jabalpur. Hazra’s leaving the college caused much misery to his parents. After …

WINNING HIS HEART 2023 – EVENT DETAILS

AVATAR MEHER BABA BOMBAY CENTRE  PRESENTS Winning His Heart  2023 – Event Details: 1) Sunday – 9th April, 2023. INTUITIVE ART WORK. “Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.” – Meher Baba. Come one, come all to the first event of the WHH Season 2023. Unleash all inhibitions …

WINNING HIS HEART 2023

AVATAR MEHER BABA BOMBAY CENTRE Presents WINNING HIS HEART 2023 The Bombay Centre is back again with surprises galore for all Baba lovers. So hone up your talents and get set for the exciting 2023 season. Welcoming one and all, to soak in the rich heritage of Beloved Meher Baba This year too all the events will be virtual. Nevertheless, …

THE CLOCK IS WOUND AND THE ALARM IS SET

In late March, (1927) a young sadhu wandered into Meherabad and approached Baba begging for money to go to Hardwar. Baba took a special interest in him and gave him this discourse:  The meaning of a sadhu is one who performs spiritual practices with the object of controlling the mind. But since you are unable to keep your mind under control, what …

DISCOURSE ON INTELLIGENCE

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 …

INSTEAD OF ALLOWING BAILY TO DROWN, I SANK THE BICYCLE

Lateef presented a new bicycle to Meher Baba, and a lottery was proposed to decide to whom the Master should give it. All the tickets were sold to followers and it was decided that the drawing should be held during a picnic at the village of Chinchwad. Meher Baba met there with his followers on Saturday, March 25th, (1922) and in …

THE FOUR MESSAGES

Baba had given out several messages during the war which were printed and circulated among his lovers and the public. In February, 1942, he dictated four messages: The Spiritual Significance of the Present War, Violence and Non-Violence, Action and Inaction, and The Need for Creative Leadership in India. (1) Baba also gave explanations and precise instructions to his lovers, devotees and the general public on what …

THE REASON I DID NOT LET HIM DROP HIS BODY . . .

(March 1962) Joseph Harb had recently undergone gall bladder surgery, and Baba went to see him three times at the Jehangir Nursing Home. Herman Alvarado arrived and also saw Joseph. Harry Dedolchow and A. K. Das visited Guruprasad for three days at this time. Dedolchow asked Baba if he could go to the hospital and visit his friend Joseph. Baba …

HE IS FREE FROM HIS SUFFERING. YOU SHOULD BE GLAD.

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 …

WHAT IS LIFE?

(March 1953) FROM THE ASYLUM for the Blind in Dehra Dun several men came for Baba’s darshan. Although they could not see Meher Baba’s physical form, they had an appreciation of his love which they could feel. Baba consoled them: “The whole world is blind because it cannot see God as Truth, and whatever it sees is false. From that viewpoint, you …

WORK IN ITSELF IS ITS OWN APPRECIATION

Baba then apprised the workers of the reasons for calling them to the meeting that night: (March 1954)  The introduction is over and now real points start, to which you must all listen very carefully. It is about work for which you have been called here. You have been called workers. You must understand what work is. You Andhra workers, …

THIS MUCH WILL BE MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR ME

(March 1954) Narayana Rao asked, “How can we retain contact with the Avatar constantly?” In response, Baba clarified: He means that now that Baba is physically among us, we feel the contact. But when Baba physically leaves us, this contact gradually cools down. How to retain it constantly? I will explain. Do you feel constantly hungry? When you are hungry, …

THE MEANING OF DEDICATION IS THAT WHATEVER YOU DO, ATTRIBUTE THEM TO ME

Baba asked Gulmai to relate what Upasni Maharaj had told her about him years before in Sakori. Gulmai said, “Maharaj once told me that Merwan would come here and sit in this place. You are sitting on the very spot pointed out by Maharaj. Maharaj also said that many persons would be present here before you and you would deliver …

THE AVATAR’S BECOMING AND THE SADGURU’S ACTING

One point more. The difference between the Avatar (Rasool, Prophet) and the Sadguru (Qutub, Perfect Master) is that the Qutub, after going through the whole process of evolution, reincarnation and Realization, enters and lives the Life of God, whereas the Avatar has not to go through the process of evolution at all. He directly becomes  man. In living the Life of God, both the Sadguru …

BLACK SHEEP WEARING THE CLOTHES OF A SADHU

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 …

ALL ARE BLIND. EVEN THOSE YOU THINK CAN SEE ARE TRULY BLIND.

(March 1958) Baba then left for Worli, a Bombay suburb, to visit a home for the blind. The young inmates received him warmly. Speaking reverentially on behalf of all, one of the young men eloquently welcomed Baba. Everyone gave a small rose to Baba, who embraced each. All went near the One who is the very basis of love, but …

On March 13th, (1937) Baba was in Nasik. Malcolm Schloss had met a Catholic priest at a religious conference in Nasik and he urged the priest to meet Baba, but he declined. When he told Baba, he also seemed uninterested. However, due to Malcolm’s persuasion a meeting was arranged. The following conversation between the priest and Meher Baba then ensued: …

ONCE AGAIN, BABA’S TIMELY HELP SAVED A FAMILY

Later that same day, March 12th, (1942) accompanied by Kaka, Gustadji and Baidul, Baba went to Gorakhpur in search of masts, visiting many places along the way. Once during the tour, Baba stopped in Sitapur. Although according to their itinerary they were not to stop there, and neither could they find a mast, it became evident to the mandali why …

HOLI SIGNIFICANCE

On March 11th, 1922, the Hindu festival of Holi (Fire) was celebrated with a game of atya-patya and later by burning a fire in an earthen pit. Baba himself threw a fragment of wood into the fire and the Holi festival was started. He explained, “The fire is symbolic of the fire of divine love and the wood represents the lower self …

LOVE WITH UNDERSTANDING . . . DIVINE FRUIT OF PURE LOVE

On March 10th, (1940) Baba wrote to Minta Toledano:   Your last letter ticked me off – for tempering or balancing my eternal suffering with eternal bliss, while humanity has to suffer without the joy of infinite bliss and happiness, implying was it fair? Darling Shalimar, I want you to be always outspoken and free with your Beloved. I know you love, but …