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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 Savantwadi, who owned the property, excavation began. Hewn into the cliffside, the…
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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 that time, Baba had not said He was the Avatar,…
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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 said, “Fred and Ella Winterfeldt?” “Those are the ones,” Baba…
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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 Myrtle Beach and spent time “running around the Center” ever…
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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 its unique intent, as described by Baba: “Coming together of…
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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 chastised a Western lover for ending a pilgrimage early due…
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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 torrential months of monsoons. October also brings the remembrance of…
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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, where in the coastal dunes, he found an eclectic group…
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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 and to obey Him. Baba often called for music; live…
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“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. Sixty-nine years ago, Baba dictated the Universal Prayer in Dehradun…