Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center One time when Bhau was keeping watch near Baba, he was wearing a pair of thin pajamas. Baba was lying down snoring. He had reminded Bhau not to make any noise, and so Bhau was sitting quietly. Suddenly, he saw that Baba’s mosquito net was not closed properly, and if it was left as it was, mosquitoes might enter it and bite him. Slowly Bhau stood up, ve... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Applying the analogy [of sun and shadow]* to yourself as an individual, when you turn your face toward the sun [God], your shadow [maya] lies behind you, and although still existent, it has no power over you. But when you turn your back to the sun, you carry your shadow before you and are constantly aware of it, following in its wake. Therefore, even t... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Maya, the Master Showman who displays things that do not really exist, will perform its master trick of making everything, including my health, body, energy, words and promises seem to go against me, and this will automatically test the extent of the faith and trust of my lovers in me. The only thing that maya cannot go against is my work, because maya... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center On one of the walls in the room hung a wooden board on which was written the Marathi verse of Tukaram’s about beating hypocrites or false saints. Baba asked the Andhra devotees if they could read it. Then he explained Tukaram’s words: “There are many hypocritical saints with long matted hair and their bodies besmeared with ashes. Tukaram says: “Let the... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Prem and Girja Khilnani came to see Baba on the 18th at 5:30 P.M. They expressed their disappointment over not being able to see him more frequently. Baba told them: Better than your being with me is my being with you! I am in everybody’s heart, but I am sleeping there. It is my old, old habit. In order to awaken me, you should always call out to me an... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Eruch and the other mandali kept up their correspondence at Guruprasad. To Elcha Mistry, who had just been fired from his job, Eruch wrote these encouraging words on 23 June 1959: “Baba wants you to just face everything bravely and cheerfully. Baba wants you to know that nothing can happen without his Divine Will and, whatever happens to one, it is alw... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Innocent and fair criticism does not hurt and is good, but it is quite rare. What I mean by talking ill of others is when you criticize and it hurts; it hurts when you criticize excitedly, out of anger. When you criticize with love and kindness, how can it hurt? … Any remark or criticism that does not hurt is good. Make fun, joke, humor, but don’t hurt... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center If you do not get angry, you are a stone. If you get angry and cannot control it, you are an animal. If you get angry and can control it you are an angel, a saint! It is going against one’s nature and habit that helps. Not getting angry will not help. You must not express it! Impotence is no help. … Yoga means control, which is more difficult than cutt... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Back in Dehra Dun, while conversing with the mandali one day, Baba explained to Kishan Singh, using the metaphor of a train: “To a freight train are attached many wagons. Some contain good material, some bad — iron, copper, oil, waste products, et cetera — in different wagons. But, whether it is good material or bad, when attached to the engine the car... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Meanwhile Baba had assigned different duties to Jal Kerawalla, among them being to find a good boy and bring him to Baba. Jal would daily bring one boy after another, all of whom Baba would feed and give new clothes to, and then return to Jal. This saddened Jal, who thought himself a failure in meeting Baba’s requirements. He had no idea that Baba’s wo... »