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Prasad: A Gift from God to Man
This year while planning the 100th Silence Day celebration at the Center, the programming group came up with an idea to serve rava with chai on July 10th. The thought found its roots in the nostalgia of being at Baba’s samadhi for various events such as the early morning celebrations of His birthday at the…
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Silence Day Slip-Ups
Wendy Haynes Connor has a marvelous Silence Day story. It was during the 1970s, she was at lunch in Dilruba, an annual event, with Elizabeth, Kitty, Margaret, Jane, and Charles.1 “Suddenly, the phone rang and before we could stop her, Kitty jumped up, ran to the phone, picked up the receiver and said, quite cheerfully,…
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Tuning Into Meher Baba’s Silence
“Things that are real are always given and received in silence.” Meher Baba Meher Baba put aside His physical body on the 31st January 1969 but not His silence. It remains. When I first visited Meherabad in 1973 for the Amartithi, Baba’s presence was palpable, but silent. From my Christian background it felt something like the…
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Lessons in Obedience at Manzil-e-Meem
This month marks the 103rd anniversary of the establishment of Baba’s first ashram in Bombay, India. After years of work by the Perfect Masters to awaken Him to meet His destiny, Merwan was proclaimed as the “Adi Shakti” and “Parvardigar” by Upasani Maharaj and Sai Baba respectively. And He gathered His very first disciples. One…
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The Master’s Programmer
Dennis McCabe never missed a weekend program. He never took vacation but a handful of times in the decades that he ran the programs at the Center. It happened to be a Friday night, April 25th, 2025, when instead of being at his treasured weekend program, Dennis went to His beloved, Meher Baba. The next…
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The Alligator Club
It is a little known fact, but during Meher Baba’s 1958 visit to the Meher Spiritual Center, an emergency surgery was performed in the Barn by three Viennese doctors. One’s name has been lost to history, the other two were Dr. Pfunster and Dr. Schmaltz.1 The patient, with a huge belly, was laid out on…
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The Story of the Mound
Donned in green jungle boots and fired by a sense of “spiritual as well as physical adventure,” [1] a small group of devoted Baba lovers traipsed through the virgin woods nine miles north of Myrtle Beach. It was June, 1944, soon after Elizabeth Patterson’s father had lovingly given her 800 acres [2] by the ocean…
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Just to Serve Him
Karyl Tych has been a tour guide on Center for decades. Her tours have always been warm, welcoming and informative while being efficient and articulate. Over all the years, she has had the ability to connect and engage with any tour participant ranging from young children to reporters from local news outlets. It has always…
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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…