Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center If a person is caught in a quagmire he instinctively tries every means to get out of it, but the very effort he makes thrusts him deeper into it. The more he struggles, the further in he sinks. Help must come to him then from someone who stands on firm ground, and who can only be of help when the struggling man has ceased to struggle long enough to loo... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Similarly, the person who parades humility is like the one who smells the stink when cleaning a latrine, whereas the person who lives the life of humility is like the sweeper who is not only immune to the stink but who also remains absolutely unmindful about what others think about him and his job, because he actually lives the life of a sweeper. To ha... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Modesty is weakness, but humility is strength. A world of difference, therefore, exists between the two. The moment you say, “I say in all humility,” the very expression is the expression of the ego in you. Even if in your mind you feel that you are humble, this feeling is egoistic. The difficulty does not end even if with true honesty you ... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Our ego keeps us aloof from our own Real Self. Ego is so mighty that it makes us deceive our own Self. It has been attached to one’s Self from the very beginning. It appears to be so natural a part of our very self that, under the pretext of our understanding, this ego gets tickled instantaneously and the very next moment gets depressed. If I say, “You... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Baba called all the mandali to the mast ashram (on the hill) at three in the afternoon, and gave this explanation about fasting: The body will survive for 95 days if one remains only on water. Just as the body feeds on food, so the mind feeds on desires, and indulgence in these desires feeds the mind and the ego. So, by starving the mind of these desir... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center One of the greatest things to possess is faith, which ultimately leads to conviction; and from conviction one day arises realization. There are no two kinds of faith. Faith is the last thing to be labeled. The only question is whether one has strong faith or weak faith. Some manifest faith only to the point of acknowledging forms and ceremonies, while ... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center If you don’t want to be old before you really ought to be old, be cheerful in thought, word, deed and appearance – most of all in appearance. Maybe you are not happy inside, perhaps gas in your stomach. But you must look happy. I always find half of you garlic-faced. When you eat garlic, it is a smell passed on to all. So when you appear garlic-faced, ... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Mr. Vivian asked… “Could you show us some means to overcome our weaknesses and faults?” “By selfless service, devotion and love. By utilizing our best in the service of others. By remaining in the world, and yet not being of it,” Baba dictated. Mr. Vivian asked, “What about a person who is so engaged in various activities that he does not know which ac... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Giving an analogy of a water-diviner (a person who locates where a well should be dug), Baba said: There are five types of men: those who are water-diviners, those who know the water-diviners, those who use a machine to test for water, those who begin digging a well, and those who, in order to drink water, go to a well. The water-diviners are the Perfe... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Someone else asked, “But how do we earn that opportunity (of meeting a Perfect Master)? All of us cannot think of God and have the intense desire for real bliss.” Baba explained at length: Naturally, this depends on one’s sanskaras. There is a course of experience through which every being must pass to realize God. Suppose an ordinary person who has no... »