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The Beloved’s Fragrance
Last week while listening to Eruch Jessawala speak about Baba’s fragrance at His tomb and-other places where Baba spent time, I marveled at Eruch’s ability to weave Baba’s words together and build upon them so beautifully and be able to do simply what Master storytellers do with years of practiced craftsmanship –create an image and…
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The Year My Mother Didn’t Dance for Baba
When my mother Ella Massie Marks was young, she had one great love: dance. “I lived it, I ate it, I breathed it,” she told me. “I worked at it five hours a day and if I had a rehearsal, another five hours a day. I never thought I wanted anything else in the world.”…
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The Most Beautiful Voice
On July 10th, 1925, after thirty-one years of speaking, Meher Baba, began observing silence. On the 99th anniversary of that day, I found myself wondering about the sound of Meher Baba’s singing voice. My interest sparked, I spent the coming afternoons searching for and reading about the voice that Mehera, Baba’s closest female disciple, described…
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The Pull to Come Home
What is home? Many have argued that it is not a place – it is a feeling. A sense of longing, of belonging, of familiarity, of instant comfort. A place to go to in the depths of your being from any physical location. What if such a place existed, but you had never been to…
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The Lover and Beloved Relationship
While visiting Meherazad in 2006, my wife Wendy and I spent one morning walking the property with Meherwan Jessawala. The Jessawala family were long-time devotees of Baba’s, with Eruch, Meherwan’s elder brother becoming a close mandali member, living with Baba the last decades of His Advent. Meherwan told us this story as we walked past…
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The Mother of the Avatar
Earlier this month on Mother’s Day, I thought of Shireenmai: the mother of the Avatar. How well chosen she must have been for Baba to say, “It was I who first gave you birth – and then you bore Me! I was your mother in the beginning of creation, and now you are My mother.”1…
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Meditation on Meher Baba’s Wish
I first discovered Meher Baba as an adult through His writings—reading the Discourses in college, and then later God Speaks, Listen Humanity, and the many other texts that bear Baba’s name as their author. There was so much advice to be gleaned from these books, whether on the subjects of marriage and sex or on…
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Love on Tour: 1970
On February 11th, 1970, Adi K. Irani and Meherjee Karkaria, two of Meher Baba’s Indian men mandali, departed Bombay for a tour of the West, with visits planned in Zurich, London, and ten cities across the United States. Adi met Baba in 1921 at the age of eighteen and became one of His first mandali…
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Gardening for His Pleasure
Spring at the Center is magical. Right now, the garden at Baba’s house is in full bloom. The assortment of fragrant flowers outside the home that He loved best, inevitably reminds me of Mehera’s garden. The parallels between His home in the West and in the East may be vast or few depending upon the…
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Baba’s Jane and St. Teresa of Jesus
Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 In the summer of 1978, Jane Barry Haynes received one of her most cherished Meher Baba treasures, sent to her at Meher Center by Baba’s sister, Mani. It was something unusual: an ivory-colored stone with tan veins, about two inches long. The…