Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Baba in Nasik On Sunday, 30 March 1930, Shroff brought his family and friends to Nasik to see Baba who expounded on the nature of love to them: Love me and you will know me; but I am such a Reality that it is extremely difficult to know me. The price is love. No repetition of God’s name, no penance and no meditation is necessary — only love, and such l... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center On Sunday, 22 September, Baba asked the women, “Who was it who said, ‘Unless you lose yourself, you cannot find yourself?’ ” … It means three things in one: first, love God so much that you forget yourself; second, sacrifice your carnal desires for the soul; and third, complete resignation to God’s will. And when you love too much, you do forget yourse... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center These meditation classes do not impart love. Meditation creates peace, not love. Thinking brings about love when done continually and deeply. In meditation, you try to stop thinking. The stoppage gives peace. But to love, you must think of the Beloved! If your mind becomes still, your Beloved does not exist anymore. Then how can there be love where the... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Before karma is created, the individual has a sort of freedom to choose what it shall be. But after it has been accomplished, it becomes a factor which cannot be ignored, and which has either to be expended through the results which it invites, or counteracted by fresh and appropriate karma. Karmic determination is popularly designated as fate. Fate, h... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center From the spiritual point of view, the only important thing is to realize Divine Life and to help others realize it by manifesting it in everyday happenings. To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others-by expressing, in the world of forms, truth,... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center Meher Baba once told His disciples, making objective use of a dispute which occurred between two persons: All the meditations, yogas, concentrations do not teach what Baba teaches you through everyday living. That is, to be kind to those who ill-treat you, and to love those you dislike. This is the highest practice of yoga. When Christ was mocked, spat... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center On the 24th, a 60-year-old man came to see Baba and said, “Although I have had many minor turning points in my life, I feel today that the main turning point of my life has at last arrived by meeting you.” Baba smiled and explained to him: “Yes, that turning point has to arrive in each one’s life. It is like a war. Every day, every hour, every minute o... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center To a highly educated group of his lovers, Baba stated: It is better to deny God than to make a show of devotion. You may be extraordinarily clever, but in the eyes of God your intelligence has no value if you indulge in hypocrisy. On the other hand, if you are the most unlearned person and if you have no trace of hypocrisy, you become the wisest in the... »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center A child’s trust in his mother is complete because he leaves all his worries to her. She has to take care of him. So if we trust in God and let Him worry for us, we live contented and happy. -www.lordmeher.org, p4700 June, 1960; Guruprasad »
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center “Do not think much over petty questions, and wear out your mind. This constant thinking weighs heavy on your mind, and causes you much worry and anxiety for nothing. Do not let any material thoughts disturb your mind and eat it away. Do not be like a leaf (of a tree) moved here and there by the wind. Be like a rock, unaffected by gales and storms and s... »