In this audio, Dr Goher, Meher Baba’s close woman Mandali and doctor, narrates her early life with Baba. She shares the story of her family’s old connection with Baba, an ominous dream her father had, and her father’s decision to move his well-established family from Quetta to Ahmednagar. She also shares her mother’s conviction of Baba as God. Eventually, she talks about going to Bombay to study medicine under Baba’s direction—revealing His lifelong plan for her.

Audio 33:21

Meherazad India, 1987

Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

Uploaded on 9/23/2022

In this nimble talk, Eruch Jessawala recalls tales from his childhood with Meher Baba, who first communicated with slate and chalk then with an alphabet board. Eruch learned to read Baba’s rapidly moving fingers. Years later, on October 7, 1954, Meher Baba called the Mandali to Him to tell them He was discarding the board. Eruch relates, “We would speak to Him and He would just remain gazing at us.” Now came the arduous task of learning the system of hand gestures that Baba would use for the rest of His days on earth.

Audio, 9:16

Meherazad, India, September 22, 1972

Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

Uploaded on 9/16/2022

Kitty Davy was a close disciple of Meher Baba who lived at the Meher Center from 1952 to 1991. In this wonderful talk, she recalls her first meeting with Meher Baba at her home in London in 1931 and intimate times with the Master.

Audio, 38:49

Meher Center, November 27, 1969

From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives

Uploaded on 9/2/2022

In this exquisite, raw footage of Mani, she shares anecdotes about her life with Baba. Talking about her childhood, she spills some beans about the friction between her mother and Upasani Maharaj; her mother’s pain in letting her son go and her father’s deep search for God. She then talks about how Baba works on us and helps us lose ourselves. She ends with stories of creating skits for Baba.

Video, 47:42

Meherazad India, May 19, 1971

Courtesy of the Irwin Luck Interview Series

Uploaded on 8/19/2022

In this lively talk about speed typing for Baba, Mani tells a moving story that illustrates how Baba works on us. She says, “While He allows us the opportunity to do His work or to feel we are doing His work, He’s doing the real work on us.”

Audio, 9:22

Meherazad, India, July 25, 1987

Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

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Uploaded on 8/19/2022

Bhau Kalchuri, writer, poet, biographer of Meher Baba and Mandali member narrates how Meher Baba composed You Alone Exist. Baba told him, “This is the only prayer which gives all pervading nature of God. Don’t change anything.”

Video 7:55

Midwest Gathering, Rockford Illinois, July 24th, 2004

Courtesy of Bob Fredericks

Uploaded on 8/12/2022

Naja Rustom Irani was Meher Baba’s cousin (the sister of Pendu and daughter of Baba’s aunt Piroja and uncle Masaji). She was also part of His intimate Mandali from the early days on. Naja was Baba’s cook at His ashram and Meher Baba called her His Martha. Here, she narrates simple incidents of being with God in Human form: cooking for Him, playing games with Him, experiencing His silence and entertaining Him to lighten His universal burden.

Video, 37:21

Meherazad India, May 19, 1971

Courtesy of the Irwin Luck Interview Series

Uploaded on 7/22/2022

Here are three vignettes gleaned from a talk given by Kitty Davy, Darwin Shaw and Lyn Ott at Meher Spiritual Center in 1979. Darwin speaks of the search for the Center and the pioneering spirit of those involved in its development. Lyn talks of how the Center remains the same even though there has been constant change and improvements. Kitty provides a lively account of her role and the instructions given by Meher Baba on maintaining special buildings. Finally, all three contribute to a discussion on the significance of Meher Baba’s Tomb.

Audio, 22:40

Meher Spiritual Center, 1979

Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

Uploaded on 7/15/2022

Meherjee Karkaria first met Meher Baba in 1923 at Meherabad and went on to become a close disciple who exemplified obedience. He was one of the Eastern men who accompanied Baba to the Meher Center in Myrtle Beach in 1952 and 1956. In this talk given by Meherjee at the Meher Spiritual Center on July 7, 1978, he speaks of the “interesting relationship that Meher Baba has given us between love, silence and sound.”

Audio, 14:50

Meher Center, July 7, 1978

From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives

Uploaded on 7/8/2022

In this dynamic talk alongside Eruch, Mani, and the pilgrims in Mandali Hall, Agnes Baron shares the story of Meher Mount and her life with Baba. In the early 1950s, Agnes was disillusioned with spiritual teachers. Nevertheless, she found herself tagging along with a group of Baba lovers to look at a beautiful property in Ojai, California as a potential center for Baba. Agnes would soon meet Meher Baba at Meher Center and become completely devoted to Him. But even before she met Him, after seeing that property later known as Meher Mount, she found herself writing her first letter to Him. It ended with a promise that, if He wanted the property, “I’ll keep it for you through hellfire and damnation.” And, over the decades, she did.

Audio, 1:04:38

Mandali Hall, Meherazad, India, September, 1982

Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California

Uploaded on 07/01/2022