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A Grand Celebration
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 prasad personally given by Shri Meher Baba to over ten…
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Padri’s Immortal Master
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 clarified, “Tomorrow, Dada [Baba] is coming here and is going…
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What a Mighty Beloved
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 Elizabeth Patterson. Wendy did not rush. The phone rang again….
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Divine Love in Action
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 Center. Like countless children in the Baba world, I remember…
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Dancing Together
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, whether she thought it was appropriate. “Yes,” she said, “As…
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Repentance
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 in November of 1951, during the New Life, when He…
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The Fire of Divine Love
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 Baba Himself. Baba personifies the dhuni as if she were…
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Mercy within Change
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 even ramped up as the crew started focusing on projects…
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Finding Beauty and Truth
To tell the story of Australian poet and Mandali member Francis Brabazon’s first meeting with Baba without telling the story of the man and his search would be an erroneous and incomplete account. About his first meeting with Baba at Meher Center in 1952, Francis wrote, “This meeting was a culmination of ten years of…
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“Baba waited for me”
“I was never a seeker. Baba came to get me,” said Judi Schoeck when we started talking about her life with Baba. Judi has been working at the Center Gateway for close to two decades and has been with Baba since the early seventies. So how does one end up working at God’s front gate…