It is Sheriar Moondegar Irani’s 169th birthday this month. Meher Baba’s sister, Mani, recalled that their father “was a living example of what Baba tells us to do, to be in the world but not of it.”[i] It started early. By age twelve, Sheriar’s longing... Read more

If you’ve been to Meher Center in the last 16 years, you may well have met Peter Goodman. He’s quickly recognizable by his big heart, his endless enthusiasm, and his willingness to stop and chat (and often ask after your friends and relatives by name),... Read more

In an invitation letter dated February 4th, 1937, Meher Baba’s secretary Chanji wrote to Mahatma Gandhi about the celebration of Shri Meher Baba’s forty-third birthday at His Nasik Retreat. “Among the principal functions on this occasion is the distribution of grain and cloth, as special... Read more

On January 30, 1969, Meher Baba called Padri from Meherabad to Meherazad for seven days. As he was leaving Meherabad, Mohammed, the God-intoxicated Mast, said, “Padri will come back tomorrow.” When he was told that Padri was to stay with Baba for a week, Mohammed... Read more

On the morning of February 1, 1969, seventeen-year-old Wendy Haynes was busy making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Happy Club, the Saturday gathering for some local children at the Center, when she received a call from Kitty Davy to rush to Dilruba to see... Read more

It is unlikely that one has stayed at Meher Center and not met Jeff Wolverton. It is more unlikely that one has met him and forgotten him. For so many, Jeff Wolverton has been and continues to be an essential and noteworthy figure at the... Read more

In the winter of 1988, Beverly Smith asked Meher Center staff if she could call a square dance at the Center’s then-small New Year’s Eve program. They told her to wait while they asked Kitty Davy, one of Baba’s close Mandali who was then 97,... Read more

There are days we might feel the Prayer of Repentance is more applicable than others. But after dictating the prayer seventy years ago this month, Meher Baba demonstrated how important repentance is, again and again, for all of us. Baba wrote the Prayer of Repentance... Read more

After the first dhuni was lit in Meherabad in 1925, Meher Baba asked each of His Mandali to write a poem about the dhuni. Many poems were written; however, the poem that continues to define the power and nature of the dhuni was composed by... Read more

A lot can happen while waiting for Baba’s lovers to return to the Center. When the Center first closed for guests, Dean Mendoza was working on Maintenance. At first, his job continued approximately as usual: each building still had to be carefully tended, and work... Read more