Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center In the P.W.D. bungalow, Baba explained to the women about maya, sanskaras and yoga. On Sunday, 24 July 1938, he spoke about happiness: Everything that people do in the world is done to obtain happiness. Seeking power is to derive happiness. People strive after money wishing to find happiness through possessions. That is all right when money is used rig... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center The next morning, Baba called Pendu and said in a very serious tone, “I am giving you two more weeks to complete the work*. It must be finished by August 25. I will have no place to stay. I am being evicted from the P.W.D.! So we have to come to Meherabad. I am coming on the 25th whether you have finished or not!” Pendu looked somewhat worried and Baba... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center On March 11th, Baba gathered the men mandali and explained to them: To be frank and fair is a quality and characteristic of persons who are honest and have the courage to openly say out what they feel rather than to keep things in the heart or say things behind people’s backs. Some take pride in that quality of being frightfully frank and hate those wh... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center The following day, Baba expounded on his work at the Rahuri ashram: It is all a game of consciousness, directing the spiritual consciousness of the God-intoxicated (masts) toward material consciousness by my physical service to them, and uplifting the material consciousness of others to God-Consciousness by my spiritual guidance to them. Thus, my Infin... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Two senior police officers, named Anklesaria and Mehta, came to see Baba at the Ice Factory Bungalow on 5 August. Mehta, who was spiritually-minded, was a relative of someone who had gifted a plot of land in Ahmedabad to the Ramakrishna Ashram and had read extensively through spiritual literature. After discussing general topics, Baba asked Mehta lovin... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center At the time of Jesus, arrogance, imperiousness, pride and cruelty were the characteristics of people. Nevertheless, they possessed a conception of justice in regard to women and marriage; therefore, it was not necessary, as it was in Arabia, to make marriage an example. Jesus lived the life of humility, simplicity, and poverty, and he endured suffering... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Someone asked why Jesus never married. Baba gave a detailed explanation (which had been dictated the year before): The Avatar’s exterior way of life is regulated by the habits and customs of the times, and he adopts that attitude which is most suited to serve as an example to his contemporaries. But in essence, all Avatars embody the same ideal of life... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Baba: “Some time ago, I had implanted a spark of Love in the hearts of some of the boys as well as in a few amongst the elder disciples, which makes you see this surprising result these days. With a mere touch, or a look, Saints can give indescribable thrills and novel experiences to anyone they like, but these last for a certain period. Such thrills a... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Unlike at other public places, Baba was not in a hurry to leave, and his former morose mood since arriving in Milan, Chanji noted, now seemed changed. There (and later), Baba explained about his spiritual work to Enid and a friend of hers named Theo, who had accompanied them: It is absolutely impossible for an ordinary man to understand my work. With m... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center During the voyage, on Saturday, 7 August 1937, Baba explained to the Westerners about performing selfless service: God as God alone is not consciously man, and man as man alone is not consciously God. Only the God-Man is consciously both God and man; so the God-Man is both Lord and the servant of the universe. Lord, in the state of helping all souls pr... »