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Videos are posted in the order they were sent out in the Weekly Offerings & Monthly Newsletters, with the most recent collection first.
“You Can Never Be Far Away from Me”
In this enlightening presentation, Charles Haynes and Christopher Wilson explore Meher Baba’s role in the life and art of Helen Dahm, the famous Swiss artist who painted the inside of Baba’s Samadhi. Beginning with a slideshow of Helen’s early paintings, their talk describes the events that led up to her meeting Meher Baba and her experience living in the women’s ashram, which was a pivotal time in her life. In 1934, Baba conveyed to her, “I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with the colors of spirituality.” While in the ashram, Helen felt depressed and isolated, so Baba directed her to paint the inside of His Samadhi and crypt, and she became very happy while working under His guidance.
Video, 1:24:20
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
July 12, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded August 14, 2026
“Baba’s Nazar is on the Press”
In part two of Sheila Krynski’s talk, she focuses on the evolution of Sheriar Press from its founding in 1971 to its closing this past January. She’s accompanied by Jim Wrobel, the electronic prepress technician who joined the press in 1975 and continued there until its end. Sheila shares that Mani and Kitty approved and encouraged her to grow the business and also to start the Sheriar Foundation. From her beginnings as a painter, to learning about printing machines, owning an award-winning printing agency, and designing, publishing and printing Baba books, Sheila has been extraordinarily happy with this ever-evolving life that Baba lined up for her. She concludes the talk with, “I can’t imagine not doing it because it means so much to me.”
Video, 1:01:50
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
April 18, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded August 14, 2026
“I’d found myself sitting at Baba’s feet for a photo”
In this highly informative talk and video presentation, Michael LePage shares the history of Francis Brabazon’s spiritual journey to Meher Baba. Rich with details about Francis’ first teacher Baron von Frankenberg, the talk also includes several engaging videos. One offers a first hand account by Don Stevens of Francis’ first trip to the United States to await Meher Baba’s arrival. Another is a short documentary on Francis’s painstaking building, stone by stone, of Meher House in Sydney. The talk offers a beautifully curated glimpse into the life of the Australian poet who became one of Meher Baba’s close resident mandali as well as snippets from Michael’s own life. It ends with an exquisite poem that Francis wrote for Michael.
Video, 1:21:35
Meeting Place, Meher Center
June 6, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded August 7, 2026
“One day, there will be a Baba printer”
For part one of a two-part personal narrative, Sheila Krynski shared many stories of her young adult life, from traveling and painting, searching for God, and going to her first Baba meetings with Fred and Ella Winterfeldt in New York. While she was teaching, she became fascinated with the ditto machine and taught herself how to work printing machines and presses. In June 1967, with Baba’s blessing, she became a printer for Meher Baba publications, posters and pamphlets. She moved down to Myrtle Beach on a whim, where she met Andy Lesnik, and they started Sheriar Press, Sheriar Bookstore and Sheriar Foundation.
Video, 1:02:04
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
April 18, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded August 7, 2026
A Celebration of Youth Sahavas
To mark this summer’s 36th annual Youth Sahavas, we are again sharing this delightful video of past sahavases. Made in 2020 to honor 30 years, it is full of songs, testimonials, and pictures that tell a heartfelt story of this memorable and, for many, life-transforming event.
Video, 38:38
Meher Center, Summer 2020
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 31, 2026
Meher Baba’s Visits to Meher Spiritual Center
In this detailed, and carefully curated history, Jamie Newell summarizes Meher Baba’s three visits to the Center. The well-known musician and scholar also puts each visit into the larger context of Baba’s activities during the 1950s. Jamie’s talk is rich with anecdotes, including Elizabeth Patterson’s nervousness about whether Baba would even accept the gift of the Center to one about Baba’s surprise when they got to what is now called “Gator Lake” only to find there were no alligators. It’s a great mini history lesson!
Video, 47:13
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
May 23, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 24, 2026
Beverly Smith in Concert with Jason Homan
Beverly Smith, folk singer-song writer, was welcomed as this summer’s “Artist in Residence” at Meher Center. As part of her residency, she invited Jason Homan to accompany her for this concert for a full hour mix of Baba-praising, serene folk and bluesy sing-along music. This is music at its best!
Video, 1:09:24
Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
June 10, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 24, 2026
“Being around the mandali was supreme, so much beyond what I was experiencing with meditation”
Rich Blum’s Baba story is rich with quietly dramatic events. They include a brief stint in an iron lung as a foreign exchange student and, much later, building a successful software business only to lose it all. He first heard Meher Baba’s name when he was a 17-year-old high schooler while watching the David Susskind Show in his living room in Pittsburgh. He describes his early introduction after that as a series of “one chance in a million” experiences. They include being in a high school in the late 1960’s where four other students had not only heard about Baba, but had also been to Myrtle Beach. Then in college, the student in the dorm room next to his had also heard about Baba, but his grandmother had actually met Him in 1952. And that’s just for starters.
Video, 59:30
Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
April 11, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 17, 2026
Sitar Music Concert by Michael Siegell
Michael Siegell enthralls the audience with his exquisite sitar musical performance, beautifully accompanied by his wife Lakshmi on tanpura and Cliff Hackford on tabla. He trained extensively in Indian classical music and also played with Pandit Ravi Shankar! In 2018, Michael had the golden opportunity of being the first invited artist to inaugurate the Artist-in Residence program at Meher Center. In between his heavenly songs, Michael shares a few stories of his life and explains the spiritual, poetic significance of the sitar.
Video, 1:20:06
Meher Center Meeting Place
July 7, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 17, 2026
“What would have happened to our world, which is so full of noise…., if He had not kept silence?”
In this delightful audio clip, Eruch shares what Baba really thought about Silence Day. It may surprise you! Eruch also tells an anecdote from the first Silence Day after Baba dropped his body. A man came to Meherazad with an urgent message for the mandali, but he was so moved by their silence that he had trouble speaking and could barely get out a word.
Audio, 4:56
Mandali Hall
Meherazad, India
Autumn 1977
Courtesy of Mandali Hall Talks
Uploaded July 10,2026