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Cinema Stories
In June,1934, while in London, Meher Baba said, “When I work collectively, which is generally at plays, movies and sporting events — wherever people collect and concentrate on a particular object — it is easy for me to have my spiritual effect collectively on their minds.” [1] Going to the movies with Meher Baba was…
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“Everything is an experience of Him”
It is Spring! A new life has sprung upon the natural habitat that is the Center. Flowers are starting to bud, the air is laden with impending humidity, the lake sparkles and spring rain clouds linger at a distance near the ocean. It is also the weekend of the Spring Cleaning Sahavas. As I walk…
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Shelving Sanskaras
It must have been sometime in the late seventies or early eighties. I was at Meherazad sitting outside the Mandali Hall with Eruch and other fellow pilgrims when Eruch asked, “what attracts you all to keep coming back to Meherazad?” All our answers amounted to the same thing: that this was our spiritual home, the…
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The Gondola: Meher Baba’s Boat Part Three
When Bhau Kalchuri came to the Center, he wanted to go out in the gondola under a full moon. During Aloba’s visit, he was determined to see an alligator from the Venetian vessel. And the twins, Rustom and Sohrab Irani, they just wanted to go for a ride. “They’d never been out in a boat…
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Meher Baba’s Crucifixion
On January 30th, 1969, Meher Baba remarked, “This is my crucifixion! Christ was crucified once, but I am being crucified every moment.”[1] Meher Baba had hinted at His impending dropping of the body in many ways. In August 1968, Baba had remarked, “’Coming, coming, came. I am tired of this illusion game!’ And during these…
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The Gondola: Meher Baba’s Boat Part Two
When Daniel Montague first saw the gondola at the Center in 1974, it was rotting, peeling paint and leaky, a victim of South Carolina’s humidity, heat and rainy weather.[1] “I thought it was a goner,” he said, in a recent interview. It was Daniel’s first visit to the Center, and at that time he’d also…
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The Gondola: Meher Baba’s Boat Part One
One morning in 1949, Elizabeth Patterson was sitting in Youpon Dunes reading the New York Times, as she did almost every day. At the end of a column in the business section was a misplaced classified ad with just three lines. It read: “Two gondolas for sale. $25 each.” And then it listed a telephone number. [1]…
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Meher Baba’s Declaration of Avatarhood
This year marks the 70th anniversary of a momentous year in Meher Baba’s life. In 1954, Baba held the Three Incredible Weeks sahavas, gave his Final Declaration, and gave up the alphabet board. But by far, the most awe-inspiring event of the year was His public declaration of His Avatarhood. Meher Baba was sixty years…
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Excerpt from Befitting a Fortunate Slave: Meher Baba’s Eruch Chapter: “Leaving the World”
ALTHOUGH ERUCH DID NOT COME TO BABA because he was interested in spiritual advancement, nonetheless, all his preconceived ideas of what it meant to leave the world were being shattered one by one once he joined Baba. As a young man who by nature was an observer, Eruch didn’t know what to make of it…
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Receiving His Love
The Young Adult Sahavas held at Meher Center from November 8th to the 11th was a weekend full of opportunities to come together in Baba’s love for young adults. Through discussion groups, workshops, skits, the Dhuni, visiting Baba’s House, hearing Wendy speak of her time with Beloved Baba, making garlands, nature walks, chai, delicious food,…