Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Relaxing in Shendi, Baba played cards with the mandali until eleven o’clock and then ate lunch of bakri, hot dal, and mangoes. Baba gave this short discourse: Until God-realization, this life and world of existence is like a game of cards. When you play cards you feel pleased or disappointed depending on winning or losing the game. You become so excite... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center The ego affirms its separateness through craving, hate, anger, fear, or jealousy. The feeling of separation from others is most acute where there is great and unrelieved craving. In hate and anger also, the other person is, so to speak, thrown out of one’s own being and regarded not only as a foreigner but as definitely hostile to the thriving of one’s... »
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 Believe it or not, there were times when one was tempted to stand apart and not cooperate, asking oneself why all this trouble? What had it to do with the spiritual life? But Baba’s emphasis on group work and group living was evident at all times. What meant most to Baba, of course, was to see how much enthusiasm and interest we had taken in these prep... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Beauty and ugliness have relative existence. To one trudging along under a scorching sun, barefooted, with an empty stomach, maya won’t look beautiful. The mood of the subject (the perceiver) invests the object (the perceived) with its own coloring. The goal of realization does not necessarily imply for an average man denial of things, good or bad. It ... »
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 ... »