“See how compassionate He is”
On this afternoon at Meherazad, the ever-engaging Mani talks about how Baba in His compassion helps us remember Him, and tells an incredible story about Baba’s love pacifying a train car of angry soldiers.
Audio, 28:14
Meherazad, India December 8, 1979
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
Mehera J. Irani: Her Life with Meher Baba Part #1
To honor Mehera’s birthday later this month, we are delighted to share an audio series of her life with Baba narrated by her. The Part One of this audio was shared in May of this year to honor her reunion day with the Beloved, and is posted here for those who might want to re-listen or for those who may have missed it.
Audio #1, 47:33
Meherazad, India, 1972
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
Mehera J. Irani: Her Life with Meher Baba Part #2
While Part One focuses on her first meeting with Baba in Sakori, Part Two continues into her coming to be with Baba as one of the early residents of His ashram in Meherabad. Here, she shares Baba’s orders to them to focus on God’s name, working endlessly for Him, intimate contact with Upasani Maharaj and unknowingly being prepared by Baba for her upcoming destiny to be His female counterpart.
Audio #2, 17:38
Meherazad, India, 1972
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
The New Life
Meherwan Jessawala was one of Baba’s many lovers given the heart-wrenching order to not have any external contact with Him during the New Life. Meherwan’s brother, Eruch, traveled with Baba and served as His personal attendant throughout the period. Meherwan describes the experience of the rest of the family staying behind in Poona, from the moment they heard about the New Life until Baba unexpectedly called them to see Him again—and the constant inner contact of adhering to His orders, no matter what.
Video, 1:04:39
Meherazad, India
Used with permission from Michael Le Page
The Process of Awakening
In this quiet hour at Meherazad, Eruch Jessawala, Baba’s beloved disciple and interpreter for decades, talks to a group of Eastern and Western lovers about Baba’s work: how suffering is Baba’s tool to awaken us; how the seeker slowly becomes the sought; and how the whole purpose is just to love Him.
Video, 1:06:12
Meherazad India, January 21, 1993
Courtesy of Sheriar Foundation
“The object of life is to have consciousness on Divine Love”
In the the third and final part of this audio interview with Kitty Davy, done by Alan Cohen, Kitty continues the story of her life and training with Meher Baba. She shares how Baba prepared them for physical separation from Him during the New Life. That training helped when the New Life concluded and she was brought with Baba to Meher Center, a place which would become her home for the rest of her life. The accounts of her days on the Center are priceless treasures which end in her sharing her focus on the meaning of consciousness with Baba.
Audio, 40:48
Meher Center, Saroja Library, April 16, 1978
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
“He brought things to the surface”
In part two of this audio interview with Kitty Davy by Alan Cohen, Kitty talks about the 1930’s and 40’s, when she had joined Baba’s ashram. Her detailed narration of the Nasik Ashram days involves nuanced sharing of the differences among the Ashram inmates and Baba’s working on them. Here, she shares the concept of the Provisional Ego that Baba taught them, where one’s ego is submitted to Baba so as everything that is done is done by Baba. This vivid account involves Baba’s plans for a film, the trip to Cannes and the Mandali’s lessons in controlling their moods.
Audio, 44:32
Meher Center, April 16, 1978
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
His Real and Constant Presence
This charming video captures an afternoon in Mandali Hall with Baba’s sister Mani in 1989. Mani shares humorous incidents of life with Baba that give an intimate glimpse of His ways. The stories include anecdotes about Elizabeth Patterson and Kitty Davy, two of Baba’s lovers who were integral to the development and care of Meher Center.
Video, 47:55
Mandali Hall, Meherazad, India, September 19, 1989
Courtesy of Sheriar Foundation
“He asked us to be conscious of His love for us”
In part one of this audio, Kitty Davy is interviewed by Alan Cohen about her remarkable life with Meher Baba. While taking a medical break from her career as a music teacher she heard about Baba from Meridith Starr and her brother Herbert who believed that Baba was someone like Christ. It so happened that Kitty found herself receiving Meher Baba at Victoria Station in London in 1931 and took Him to her house where Baba stayed. More personal contact followed when Baba assured His help toward her brother Herbert, granted Kitty’s deepest desire and revealed how Kitty had been with Him for ages. When Baba called her to join Him in 1932, Kitty went on to give herself in love and service to Baba while learning to serve, surrender and obey.
Audio, 43:27
Meher Center, April 16, 1978
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
“To be molded”
In this audio, Anita Vieillard takes us back to the heady days of the 1930’s when the Western women were first spending time with Baba in America and Europe. Focusing mostly on their time at Harmon on Hudson and Portofino, she describes both the exquisite beauty of being with Baba, and the trials as He worked this diverse group of personalities into the pliable forms of His dear lifelong disciples.
Audio, 46:04
Meher Center Meeting Place, September 26, 1987
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California