A Magic Carpet Ride: Tiger Valley Cave

Meher Baba’s Tiger Valley Cave is located in Panchgani, sixty miles from Pune, 12.5 miles from Mahabaleshwar, and was built especially for Meher Baba in the spring of 1930. Once Baba selected the site for the cave and approval was given by the Maharaja of... Read more

Celebrating the One God

In February 1922 in Pune, Meher Baba’s birthday was celebrated simply by His earliest disciples. There was singing, a delicious meal, arti, and a spirit of festivity and love. One disciple, Gulmai, gave Baba a thin gold chain with Zoroaster’s portrait in a locket. At... Read more

Everybody’s Aunt and Uncle

When Norina and Elizabeth left New York in the late 1940s, someone was needed to host the Monday night Baba group and connect with newcomers. The issue was brought to Baba, and many names were presented to Him, each met with a negative. Finally, someone... Read more

A Fortunate Responsibility

“This place is not a retreat for me,” Joe Dunn says of Meher Center. Every workday, Joe drives to the Center, parks his truck, walks to the maintenance shop, and begins his constant meticulous work of tending and repairing and rebuilding. Joe grew up in... Read more

A Downpour of Love: from West to East

Exactly sixty years ago, in November of 1962, Meher Baba hosted a historic event at Guruprasad Palace in Poona, India. He invited thousands of followers for an intimate four-day Sahavas. What set this darshan program apart from any other that had taken place before was... Read more

Behind the Beauty

Meher Center’s whispering trees and and sun-grazed lakes have always felt sacred to me. But while many people look to nature for an experience of God, I don’t know of many times when Baba explicitly associated nature with spirituality. In fact, in 1937, He once... Read more

Remembering Eruch

At the Center, October brings with it a nip in the air—turning leaves adorn cabin rooftops and paths are showered with more gifts from nature to make the forest floor lusher yet. In India, October brings a month-long return of summer, a welcome respite after... Read more

Sam Cohen and His Beloved Baba

Sam Cohen was thirty-one when he met Meher Baba at the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel on a spring evening in 1932. Once Baba grasped Sam’s hand, he became entirely devoted to Meher Baba. When Meher Baba left California, Sam gravitated north to the town of Oceano,... Read more

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

Love and music filled the air of the 1958 Sahavas held at Meher Center in Myrtle Beach from May 19th – May 30th. Two hundred and twenty five people gathered who had been invited and had agreed to Meher Baba’s two main conditions: to love... Read more

“Prayer Made Perfect”

The Universal Prayer brings to mind a magical, moonlit night at Beloved Baba’s Samadhi, where all gather in the echoing sounds of His direct words of praise. Or, think of a quiet, reflective afternoon at the Lagoon Cabin where His prayers hang beside His chair.... Read more