Messages

Meher Today – 10th January

Meher Today – 10th January

10 January 1939 On 10 January 1939, Baba gave darshan continually from 7:30 in the morning until late that evening without taking food at Jabalpur. Person after person passed before Baba. Finally, Chanji sent him a message: “What’s the hurry? Can’t you spare even a little time to eat?” Baba replied, “Only in this hurried atmosphere is my work done, especially the work... »

Meher Today – 15th October

Meher Today – 15th October

15 October 1918 Perfect Master Sai Baba drops his body while calling out, “Ah, Deva! –- O, God!” 15 October 1922 Mehera catches her first glimpse of Meher Baba descending a staircase in Sakori at Upasni Maharaj’s Ashram. 15 October 1939 The day after Nonny’s death, on Sunday, 15 October 1939, Baba remarked, “Before the war ends, two more of the circle will pass off [on]. It may be two ... »

Meher Today – 28th March

Meher Today – 28th March

28 March 1950 Early in the morning of Tuesday, 28 March 1950, Baba left for Hardwar with his four companions. There he contacted 612 sadhus and mahatmas of the Nathpanthia and Nirmali sects.  Near the center of the Nirmali camp, one of the elder mahatmas was lecturing the crowd on “the benefits derived by taking the darshan of saints and sadhus.” Standing there, as if giving his full a... »

The Greater value

The Greater value

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center There is greater value in conquering the heart of a single enemy than in gaining victory over the bodies of thousands of enemies. The mind is capable of turning the bitterest enemy into the sweetest friend by constantly thinking well (charitably) of him. -Treasures from the Meher Baba journals, p10, ed Jane Haynes »

Your conscience is the best judge

Your conscience is the best judge

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Neither praise nor blame should distract you from the path of your duty. Leave aside all other considerations; if your conscience tells you that you have discharged the duty properly, that is enough. Your conscience is the best judge. It is human to err, and there must be mistakes, you can only do your best. Always be in time, look after your work pers... »

An absolute turnover

An absolute turnover

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Recently the Beloved has been telling us not so much of the close-at-hand breaking of His Silence, but of the monumental change that will come about on earth when He does so. One morning while we were sitting at breakfast with Baba, and a humming bird was hovering before a window-pane in ecstasy of its own reflection, we got to talking of His Silence. ... »

Beyond Time (A parable)

Beyond Time (A parable)

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center God has come again and again in various forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth — but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vital breath of life, man compromises by making over and over again a mechanical religion of it — as a handy staff to lean on in times of adversi... »

The universal brotherhood of man

The universal brotherhood of man

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center God has come again and again in various forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth — but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vital breath of life, man compromises by making over and over again a mechanical religion of it — as a handy staff to lean on in times of adversi... »

“When my silence is broken and I utter the Word, infinite wisdom will be released”

“When my silence is broken and I utter the Word, infinite wisdom will be released”

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center On a previous occasion a month before (on 4 April), Baba had commented about Jesus to the mandali: Jesus sometimes used to tell his disciples things which they could not understand at all. But despite all that, they stuck to him wholeheartedly and followed him till the very end, because they understood this much, that the working of the God-Man was a s... »

“To follow me is to obey me”

“To follow me is to obey me”

Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center When one man taking darshan expressed his desire to follow Baba, in response Baba explained: You want to follow me? Do you know what it means? It means to leave all and follow me. And do you know what it is to leave all? It is to leave everything, even your self, behind you. Mind, you have to follow me and not run ahead of me. This is so very simple, y... »