WHEN ONE IS IN CONTACT WITH A SADGURU YOGA IS MEANINGLESS

Meher Baba would explain about the past Avatars to the mandali. On August 16th, (1926) he revealed about Prophet Muhammad: Infidels knocked out the teeth of Prophet Muhammad and he did not let out even a single sigh! As Masters, our ways are quite opposite to the ways of the world. We outwardly harass those who love us, and we …

RAHURI ASHRAM

THE ASHRAM IN RAHURI was declared open in August of 1936, and the first of the masts and the mad were brought there. This was the beginning of a very important phase of Meher Baba’s work with the mad and the God-mad, and one which was to occupy a great share of his time for many years. Rahuri, a small …

BABA DICTATES FROM HIS SECLUSION

Even though Baba was in seclusion during August 1935, he still attended to his correspondence, listening to letters and dictating replies. On August 14th (1935) he answered several letters and Chanji, visiting from Bombay, took down his replies. Darwin Shaw had written that he was hoping to establish a retreat for Meher Baba in America. Baba wrote back: Whether that …

THE MASTER’S PRAYER

Meher Baba dictated the Master’s (or Parvardigar) Prayer in Dehra Dun on Thursday, August 13th, 1953. And from that day until the 2nd of September, it was recited every evening with Baba taking part in the prayer. Donkin would read it aloud in English, and it was repeated by another mandali in Gujarati. When it was over, Baba would lay his head on the feet …

BABA ON MEDITATION

(Aug. 1928) The Master started paying particular attention to a boy named Bhiwa, often calling him to be near him, and patting and kissing him. One day at one-thirty, Baba gathered all the Prem Ashram boys and asked whether they were having any problems meditating at night and early in the morning. Many replied that they were not, but Bhiwa …

BUT WHAT WAS BABA’S JUSTICE?

On August 11th, (1938) an old villager was brought by force to Meherabad by Dada Patil. The man had a bullock cart, which Pendu had hired to bring materials to Meherabad, but he was caught with some wooden planks he had stolen from the stockpile on the Hill. Baba had come to lower Meherabad that day, and the villager was …

BABA EXPLAINS ABOUT MENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS

Baba continued giving discourses during his seclusion. On Saturday, August 6th, (1960) he drew a diagram and expounded on “the infinite atmas (souls) in Paramatma (Oversoul or God)” and gave some further points on the working of the Avatar. He also gave a discourse on mental consciousness, part of which follows: Those on the mental planes are not conscious of the …

THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS

(Aug. 1952) Baba met people in the mornings and afternoons in room 46 of the Charing Cross Hotel. Besides his old British lovers, almost two hundred new seekers came into his contact, including Douglas and Mollie Eve and Fred Marks. One woman’s reaction perhaps typifies all who met him: At four o’clock we were ushered into the anteroom full of …

THE TAIL OF MY WORK

On Sunday, August 7th, (1968) Baba had Rama Kalchuri prepare and send bhajiya for himself and the women. The next day, Rama sent Baba a rakhi (a bracelet-like amulet tied by a sister to her brother’s wrist on the Hindu festival of Rakhi, devoted to Lord Shiva). Baba accepted the symbolic act. Although Baba’s exclusion work ended on the 30th of July, …

BABA’S DIVINE LEELA

Baba called his brother Jal, Eruch and Adi Sr. to Raipur on August 5th. (1954) That evening, Deshmukh delivered an inspiring speech about Meher Baba, which made hundreds of citizens eager for his darshan. Suddenly that night, Baba’s health collapsed. The public darshan was scheduled to take place the next day, and Jal Kerawala grew worried. He had invited many …

MYSTERIOUS SIGNIFICANCE OF BABA’S AILMENTS

During Baba’s stay in Nasik, boils appeared on his body and began causing him much pain. On August 5th, (1930) Dr. Nilu was specially called from Bombay to give Baba an injection. When he was given the injection, Baba, being in a candid mood, explained the mysterious significance of his ailment: These boils are of different types – one irritating, …

FREEDOM FROM DESIRES

(4th August 1929) While staying in Harvan, Baba explained to the mandali about freedom from desires: As long as a person is not free from desires, he is not ready for emancipation. Desires, both good and bad, are binding. Good desires bind a person with golden chains, and bad with iron ones. Why do you feel restless? Because you have …

MESSAGE TO THE YOUTH

Previously, on August 3rd, (1942) Meher Baba had dictated the following message, which was published in the September issue of the Indian magazine for youth, Comrade: It is the privilege of youths to be full of energy and hope. Not being caught up in any grooves, their dreams about the future have the advantage of being inspired by an unfettered imagination. …

HOWEVER I APPEAR TO YOU, IT IS ONLY YOUR OWN REFLECTED IMAGE

Once, when Baba was in an open mood, Sarosh asked him, “Why do you sometimes get so angry with us?” Meher Baba replied: I am never violent or angry. For me anger, pride, lust, happiness or misery do not exist. Nothing like that exists for me. But when I appear angry at someone, it is his anger that expresses itself through me. I am …

THE ‘UNDERGROUND PIT’ WAS TO HOUSE HIS LAST PHYSICAL REMAINS

Starting in August, 1938, the Swiss artist Helen Dahm was painting colorful murals on the inside walls of Meher Baba’s underground crypt. She was absorbed in her work from morning to evening. Although Helen was not a young woman, (she was sixty at the time) out of love, she worked on her back on top of scaffolding to paint the …

AND HOW DOES ONE LOVE GOD?

BABA ARRIVED at Los Angeles International Airport at 5:50 A.M., on Tuesday, July 31st, 1956. It was drizzling rain and the skies were overcast. Baba was greeted by three women of the Los Angeles Hospitality Committee, none of whom had met him before: Hilda Fuchs, Gladys Carr and Marguerite Poley. They placed a lei of red and white carnations around his …

THE KASHMIRIS WERE JOYOUS TO BE IN THE MASTER’S COMPANY

THEY LEFT Uri at seven-thirty on the morning of July 30th, (1929)  but after going some distance, Baba directed Padri to turn around. Back in Uri, Baba found a blind boy and kindly handed him a cotton scarf. The blind boy was worshiped by the local people, who believed him to be an advanced soul. They then left Uri and reached …

NONE OF YOU CAN KNOW WHAT IT MEANS

One morning in July, (1968) Baba dictated this rhyme: “God always existed. God will always exist. He is never changing, ever the same, And illusion is his eternal game.” Later, in August, Baba continued the theme: “Everlasting, never ending Never changing, ever the same And his Oneness in its fullness Plays in manyness his game.” Another time, he spelled out, …

ONE SHOULD BE CAREFUL IN FOLLOWING BABA’S EXACTING ORDERS

(July 1935) Some work still remained to be completed on the cabin, so Baba did not actually begin his seclusion until the evening of July 15th. No one was allowed near the new cabin unless called by Baba. Padri and Pendu were occasionally called for work. Vishnu came each day from 3 to 4:30 P.M. to attend to correspondence, since …

AND THIS DISCOURSE HAD AN EFFECT ON VILLOO TOO

Viloo and Sarosh came to see Baba at Meherabad on July 27th.(1939).    Although Sarosh was devoted to Baba from the early 1920s, his wife Viloo still harbored doubts about Baba and was openly cynical. During their meeting, Baba remarked, “Whatever I say, I say from my Unlimited ‘I’. You have a limited ‘I’. I can read what you are thinking …

BY BEING EVERYTHING, WHAT YOU THINK ME TO BE I AM

Baba called Kutumb Sastri to Dehra Dun to discuss the Andhra programs. On Sunday, July 26th, (1953) in the course of the conversation, Baba explained to Sastri: To know God is to become God. So how can you know what a Perfect Master is unless you become one? I may be either the Avatar, a Sadguru or an ordinary man. …

I CONTINUALLY FEEL BOTH INFINITE BLISS AND HUMAN SUFFERING

(July 1956) Baba asked Ivy Duce, “What are you thinking?” She replied, “I was wondering what you were thinking!” Baba answered, “I was thinking that God within each of you is free, infinite; yet He feels Himself bound in each of you and therefore He suffers. I am infinitely happy, eternally blissful, yet I suffer every instant through you because …

DO YOU THINK JESUS WOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH WASHINGTON WITH A POLICE ESCORT?

(July 19956) Those not going to Washington, D.C. with Baba embraced him for the last time. Baba also paid a final visit to his dear “Nurjehan” – Norina. They gazed at each other silently before the Master enfolded his disciple in a last embrace. Baba took from his pocket a fine lawn handkerchief, folded it and pressed it to his …