(Nov. 1955) Tomorrow, I will speak to you for five minutes and tell you about the gift of love. I am going to test who has understood love. I will see who is bold enough to deserve this gift. It matters not if what I am going to tell you to do, you are unable to do. If you feel …
YOU ARE GOD HIMSELF
The next day, October 31st. (129), Gustadji noticed a saintly-looking man near their house and told Baba about him. Happy to know of this, Baba immediately left to see him. No sooner did the man see Baba coming than he ran toward him and kissed Baba’s hands. After Baba embraced him, the man walked off down the street. Later, Baba …
THE WEST DIFFERS FROM THE EAST IN ITS IDEAL OF SPIRITUAL PERFECTION
With the onset of cool, damp, autumn weather in Cannes, Baba’s health noticeably suffered. On Sunday, October 31st. (1937), one of the remaining Westerners asked Baba, “Why does a Master fall ill and make use of medicine?” In reply, Baba stated: The West differs from the East in its ideal of spiritual perfection. The West believes perfection to signify the …
DIFFERENT MEDIUMS OF WORK
Quentin Tod was in charge of the nightly entertainment and they would go each night to a different movie. One night, Tod took Baba to the Theater Espanol to see Love of the Sorcerer, a ballet. Another evening, Tod took Baba to see Cohen and Kelly at Madrid’s best movie theater, the Capitol, which had an orchestra and a revolving stage. Baba would …
WHEN IT COMES TO A QUESTION OF DUTY, YOU MUST SACRIFICE A LITTLE
While at Meherabad, Baba would grant interviews. An Indian woman devotee came to see Baba on October 28th (1934). She complained openly before Baba that she wished to stop having sexual intercourse with her husband because of her desire to see God. But her husband was unwilling. Consoling her, Baba explained, “It is better to treat your husband with love …
HOW COULD SHE BEAR TO KNOW THE FACTS BEHIND POOR CHANJI’S BEATING?
REACHING GENOA, Baba boarded the S. S. Roma at 10 P.M. on October 27th, (1931) bound for New York City. In Naples, Meredith introduced a Canadian lady from Toronto named Louise Skey to Baba. During the voyage, Miss Skey was taken with Baba and visited his cabin several times. Besides Meredith’s annoying behavior, Agha Ali would also behave like a spoiled child …
OBSERVANCE OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH AMARTITHI
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SERVES HIM RIGHT
Baba left for Baroda on the morning of October 29th. (1947), and another amusing incident occurred on the train. Baba, Baidul, Eruch and Gustadji found themselves in a small third class compartment which was empty. Everyone was pleased at this lucky turn of events, as whenever possible Baba preferred to have the compartment to himself so that he could relax …
UNKNOWINGLY, THIS THIEF HAD SOUGHT GOD’S PROTECTION
(Oct. 1947) Baba and the mandali spent the night at the railway station, as they were to leave early the following morning. Here a memorable incident took place. Baba and the men would always carry their bedding rolls with them, and at the station they spread them out on the ground at the end of the stone platform. One of …
ACCEPT GOD SPEAKS AS THE FINAL AUTHORITY
This post, released on 24th October 2024, had a line missing. The corrected post is now being sent again today, the 25th. Rakesh Acharya located the error. Thanks. The next morning, October 24th, (1960) after the usual inquiry about each one’s health, Baba advised Harry Kenmore: “During your stay here this time, I have told you many things, cleared …
THIS IS WHAT IS REAL SELFLESS SERVICE
Goma Ganesh Pathak, one of the former teachers of the Meher Ashram school, was doing social work in Ahmednagar and would come to see Baba from time to time. He invited Baba to the upcoming opening of a nursery school, Babawadi, for poor children, where they would be given free milk. Baba went for the opening in Ahmednagar on October …
UNFORTUNATELY HE NEVER DID LEARN TO ACCEPT THE MASTER’S WAYS
The next morning, (October 26, 1933) Baba was quite upset when he was not able to get hot water on time for a bath. He called Herbert, who had made the arrangements, and rebuked him severely, “I cannot work here! I will leave for Marseilles. With you taking care of me, I have never been able to have an early-morning …
OPENING DAY OF AHMEDNGAR CENTRE
The inception of the Ahmednagar Center in Khushru Quarters occurred in 1959. With the growing number of devotees in Ahmednagar, the need was felt for a larger accommodation, as the old building could only seat about fifty people. Sarosh headed the renovation committee, and two rooms at Khushru Quarters were joined to form a single large hall. Sunday, October 21st, …
UNLESS YOU GET RID OF LUST, I CANNOT GIVE YOU THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE
(Oct, 1929) Baba then confronted the men mandali, “Tell me one thing and be frank; I have a special reason to ask about it. Today I want you to disclose to me any wrong actions you have done before or after joining me. If you have done something, I want you to confess it with an open heart and without …
THE ROOT OF ALL EVILS
On October 19th, (1968) Adi sent this telegram to Cohen: Your letter October 8th giving work report on visit to England and Holland made Baba very happy. Baba says he was, he is, and he will be with you while you are doing his work wholeheartedly. Baba sends his love to you. – Adi Earlier in October, Allan Cohen had …
‘HIS MOST DISOBEDIENT SON’ FILM TO BE RELEASED IN HOSTEL ‘A’ THIS DIWALI
Dear Baba-lovers, This post is being sent as requested by the film crew at Meherabad. The film ‘HIS MOST DISOBEDIENT SON’ will be released on Saturday 2nd November 2024 at 4:30 P.M. at Meherabad Hostel ‘A’. The trailer of the film can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/1020842393 Jai Baba !!!
USEFULNESS OF HUMAN SERVICE AT ITS PUREST
… The vice-principal of Kolhapur University, a Mr. Dixit, invited Baba to participate in the opening of a new Montessori school, but because of his seclusion, Baba did not go. Instead, on Sunday, October 18th. (1942), he sent Adi Sr. to deliver this message: The form of service that a Montessori school takes has a practical value, if one’s service …
MY LIFE’S DESIRE IS FULFILLED! HAIL LORD VISHNU!
When Meher Baba was in seclusion, he had to be very careful getting into the car when he went out to contact masts or when visiting places with the women, to avoid anyone coming to him and taking darshan. When Baba was about to leave Panchgani on October 28th. (1941) at noon, a God-mad Hindu called Jagannath, who was singing …
BABA’S SERMON
(16 Oct 1950) Being just now in the Old Life for these few hours, I will tell you what I feel to be the established divine facts: Essentially, we are all One. The feeling of our being otherwise is due to ignorance. Soul desires consciousness to know itself; but in its progress toward this Goal, which it cannot realize independently …
A MEETING PRIOR TO THE SERMON
Those men who were invited were eagerly looking forward to the October meeting, and Baba was engaged in inner and outer preparations for it. Nearly two hundred lovers and devotees from throughout India arrived in Mahabaleshwar on the evening of October 15th (1950), to attend the meeting. By 6:45 A.M., on Monday morning, October 16th, 1950, they had collected outside …
NO ONE FULLY KNOWS THE LIMITS OF YOUR GREATNESS
They arrived on the morning of October 12th, (1946) but then learned that Pir Fazal Shah, the saint they had come to see, had left for Kotah. Baba decided to leave the luggage at the station, and they boarded the train for Kotah, where they arrived at eight-forty that night. They immediately went to the saint’s abode. Pir Fazal, a mental …
SANSKARAS MUST BE BALANCED PERFECTLY
On Sunday, October 13th. (1940), he explained some more points about sanskaras, after his second typed article had been read out: Sanskaras must balance perfectly. This cannot be done by a mathematical process, or it would be easy. Good and bad sanskaras are both bindings. If you have good sanskaras, you may take birth as a great, rich man; with …
PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEW LIFE
On October 12th, (1949) in a warning tone, Baba stated: “This one month’s continuous working day and night, personally seeing to every detail of winding up the Old Life, and arranging for the endless New Life, and the continual sleepless nights, have made me literally dead exhausted, both mentally and physically, and brought me to the verge of a nervous …
A CHANT TO SING EVEERY DAY
During the period of his seclusion in Meherabad, Baba had given the women a chant to sing every day, and also this four-line song: “You are Formless, Parvardigar, Ahuramazda, Allah, Hu. You are Yezdan, You are God, Ahuramazda, Allah, Hu. You are Paramatma, Parabrahma; You are Almighty God, Ishwar. You are Parameshwar, Ezad, Ahuramazda, Allah, Hu.” Explaining it on October …
THE SPIRITUAL STANDARD OF JUDGMENT
On October 11th. (1933), a woman visitor asked Baba, “When a person is surrounded on all sides by untoward circumstances and difficulties, without any avenue of escape, would he or she be justified in doing something which would ordinarily be termed undesirable or indecent?” Baba answered her at length: It is justifiable for a person in such circumstances to do …