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This new edition presents sixty-five messages by Meher Baba from the early 1960s. The statements appeal to both the curious mind and the thirsty heart, carrying the power of Meher Baba's Infinite Consciousness and the perfect simplicity of his divinely loving heart. Among the messages are: The Lover and the Beloved; God Is Shy of Strangers; The Pearl Diver; Forgive and Forget.
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(1894-1969) Merwan Sheriar Irani known as Meher Baba, was born in Pune, India, on February 25, 1894, of Persian parents. His father, Sheriar Irani, was of Zoroastrian faith and a true seeker of God. Merwan went to a Christian high school in Pune and later attended Deccan College. In 1913 while still in college, a momentous event occurred in his life...the meeting with Hazrat Babajan, an ancient Mohammedan woman and one of the five Perfect Masters of the Age. Babajan gave him God-Realization and made him aware of his high spiritual destiny.
Eventually he was drawn to seek out another Perfect Master, Upasni Maharaj, a Hindu who lived in Sakori. During the next seven years Maharaj gave Merwan "Gnosis" or Divine Knowledge. Thus Merwan attained spiritual Perfection. His spiritual mission began in 1921 when he drew together his first close disciples. It was these early disciples who gave him the name Meher Baba, which means "Compassionate Father".
After years of intensive training of his disciples, Meher Baba established a colony near Ahmednagar that is called Meherabad. Here the Master's work embraced a free school where spiritual training was stressed, a free hospital and dispensary, and shelters for the poor. No distinction was made between the high castes and Untouchables; all mingled in common fellowship through the inspiration of the Master. To his disciples at Meherabad, who were of different castes and creeds, he gave a training of moral discipline, love for God, spiritual understanding and selfless service.
Meher Baba told his disciples that from July 10, 1925 he would observe Silence. Since that day he maintained his Silence until his death in 1969. His many spiritual discourses and messages have been dictated by means of an alphabet board. Much later the Master discontinued the use of the board and reduced all communication to hand gestures unique in expressiveness and understandable to many.
Meher Baba has traveled to the Western world six times, first in 1931, when he contacted his early Western disciples. His last visit to American was in 1958 when he and his disciples stayed at the Center established for his work at Myrtle Beach, S.C.
In India as many as one hundred thousand people have come in one day to seek his Darshan, or blessing; from all over the world there are those who journey to spend a few days, even a single day, in his presence.
An important part of Meher Baba's work through the years has been to personally contact and to serve hundreds of those known in India as "masts". These are advanced pilgrims on the spiritual path who have become spiritually intoxicated from direct awareness of God. For this work he has traveled many thousands of miles to remote places throughout India and Ceylon. Other vital work has been the washing of the lepers, the washing of the feet of thousands of poor and the distribution of grain and cloth to the destitute.
Meher Baba asserts that he is the same Ancient One, come again to redeem man from his bondage of ignorance and to guide him to realize his true Self which is God. Meher Baba is acknowledged by his many followers all over the world as the Avatar of the Age.
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One can't read this book whole-heartedly and remain neutral. Meher Baba sums up misc. philosophical and esoteric debates in a few lines here & there, all from the perspective of his casually-declared Avatarhood/Christhood. Such claims take time to settle in (since their vehicle isn't "ideas"), or maybe they never do for some folks, but the humor, compassion, and wisdom is there nonetheless. (Particularly elegant or noteworthy are sections 1, 14, 38, 43, 50, 51, 54, 55...)
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As the title says, this is unbelievably beautiful. No one else has ever written such succinct and to the point short comments on various aspects of life (especially the inner life) with such beauty. You can't know how wonderful this is until you read it!
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Yep, without even twisting Rumi's or Hafiz's arm I bet they would so gladly admit, "If you think I am cooking -- checkout the Avatar, Meher Baba... and this book is a good place to start."
Daniel Ladinsky, author of I Heard God Laughing, Renderings of Hafiz, and author of three other best-selling poetry books. How did that ever happen?
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