“Baba showed me that real sadhana was to live your life in the world and spiritualize it”
Daniel Peach, originally from Columbia, South Carolina, shares many sweet and humorous stories of his spiritual life, starting at a young age. He was dedicated to Kriya Yoga for years, meditating several hours a day, and he quickly mastered Hindi, which gave him a powerful and life-long connection to India. He learned about Meher Baba from his boss and friend, Meherwan Irani, the owner of Chai Pani, and though he loved Baba very much, he was not ready to accept that He was God in human form. But after reading God Speaks, Daniel stated aloud, “Meher Baba is God! Who else could have written this book but God!” Daniel is now married, living in Atlanta and travels back to Meherabad often.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
March 21, 2026
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“Baba plans this whole thing for you and He’s there for you all the time”
In this frank and humorous talk, Tiina Coffin shares her international story which begins in Finland and at various times passes through Morocco, Europe, Maine, India and ends up in Myrtle Beach. As a young child in Finland, she felt she was followed by a loving presence, despite being raised without a sense of spirituality. As she grew older, she was looking for that presence and as a teen was drawn to India and books on Eastern philosophies. When she first learned about Meher Baba, she says, she “finally had a name for that feeling in my heart.” And that’s just the beginning!
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
March 7, 2026
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Uploaded June 12, 2026
“The spark inside my heart starts to glow and burst into flame”
Mark Trichka and Lisa Brande have been entertaining Baba lovers for decades with their uplifting bluegrass music. In this lively video, the couple tells how they each came to Baba despite not being drawn to religion when young. They also share some remarkable experiences. In Meherazad, Mani dubbed Mark the “Mandolin Walla” after he played for Mehera. At one point, Baba came to Lisa in a dream and said, “I am not this body.” They have spent the last 40 years living in Florida and Vermont and traveling around sharing their inspiring, foot-tapping music.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
November 15, 2025
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Uploaded June 5, 2026
“I thought Baba was a spiritual genius, and He is!”
Musician and raconteur Jamie Newell has a Baba story rich with coincidences and early skepticism. It starts with a harrowing childhood injury that led to his becoming a musician. His first sight of Baba was years later on a “Don’t Worry Be Happy” poster in the bathroom of a fellow musician. Jamie loved the saying, which he thought sounded like it came from a yogi, but he wondered why it was paired “with this smiling Italian pizza maker.” Thus began a search for the poster, that eventually led him to the Discourses, and his first recognition of Baba. Upon seeing Baba’s picture in the third volume, Jamie says “It was like an electrical shock. I said, ‘Wait a minute. This is the pizza guy!’” And that is just the beginning of Jamie’s Baba story.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
February 28, 2026
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Uploaded 5/15/2026
“He’s Ready for You”
Robin Vogel steps out from behind the camera this week to share her story of coming to Meher Baba. She was born to an atheist mother and a scientist father, but Robin knew early on that she was a seeker. “I knew that we were here to love each other.” Her near-death experience in the ocean showed her the “other side”, and yet she awoke back in her body. Years later, her mother who accepted Robin as a Baba Lover and went to many spiritual trips with her, still identified as an atheist. One day at the Center, she had the most beautiful feeling from Baba. She told Robin, “I know Meher Baba is the God-Man!” She was ready for Him, and He was ready for her. How wonderful this made Robin feel.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
February 21, 2026
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Uploaded 5/8/2026
“It was grace, it was total pure grace”
Mary Sutton captivates the audience with her enchanting story about how Baba taught her “to dance with Him.” From a childhood passion for silence to a post-college illness during which she felt she lost everything and through to her successful career in theater, Mary recounts how Baba was with her throughout. Having studied with legendary greats like Stella Adler (Marlon Brando’s acting coach), she also acted with Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), and ended her career bringing theater education to communities around the country. She’s now settled Myrtle Beach, sharing her talent and energies.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
February 14, 2026
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Uploaded 5/1/2026
“Baba was with me all the way from the beginning”
In this animated and uplifting talk, Alisa shares the story of how she found Baba in her life. Her dissatisfaction with the Roman Catholic Church which she was born into led her to explore other spiritual paths in college, opening her mind to Eastern philosophies. This journey eventually led her to Meherabad, where she fell in love fully with Baba and His mandali, and felt finally that she “had come home.”
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
January 24, 2026
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Uploaded April 17, 2026
“Oh my God… He’s really God, who else could do that?”
With her frank New York humor, Deb Smith shares how Baba laid several seeds over the years before He “connected me to Him consciously in this lifetime.” Her journey is filled with earnest searches and entertaining twists. Once she found Baba, then she faced another challenge. “I really thought, how could I ever be worthy of Meher Baba?” She also shares some wonderful stories about her time living in India and helping with Arnavaz Dadachanji’s book Gift of God.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
January 17, 2026
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Uploaded 4/10/2026
“Intuition is the way I connect with Baba”
In this charming talk, Hugh Flick shares how he came to “his spiritual awakening.” Even though he was at Harvard around the same time as Rick Chapman, Allan Cohen and other early Baba lovers, he didn’t cross paths with them. Hugh heard about Baba from his brother Bart. And it was some years later when he started going to Darwin Shaw’s meetings regularly that he began what he calls “his awakened life” with Baba. “Darwin’s meetings were incredibly powerful spiritual experiences,” he says. There Hugh learned the importance of “dressing your soul with Baba” and keeping him as “my constant companion.”
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
January 10, 2026
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Uploaded 4/3/2026
“Each little thing orchestrated by Baba was a step closer to Him”
Damien Triouleyre grew up around family and community who loved God. He first read about Meher Baba in a jail cell after being given a copy of Listen Humanity by one of the prison guards. From that moment on, Baba drew Damien in, introducing him to some of His dear lovers, and eventually bringing him to Meherabad in the late 1980’s. With charisma and love, Damien shares stories of the mandali and his own inner relationship with the Avatar of the Age.
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Center
January 3, 2026
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Uploaded 3/20/2026