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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.
“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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Meher Center Meeting Place
July 7, 2026
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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.
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Mandali Hall
Meherazad, India
Autumn 1977
Courtesy of Mandali Hall Talks
Uploaded July 10,2026
“We should lighten His burden”
Rustom Irani, nephew of Meher Baba and twin to Sohrab, shares lively and humorous songs and stories from his life with his uncle, the God Man. The video starts with a 1971 interview with the twins at Pumpkin House. They talked about how much they entertained Baba by doing plays, singing and cracking jokes. Rustom recalled that his most wonderful time with Baba was from 1958-1968, when Baba asked them to spend every day at Guruprasad. Baba would frequently tease them, “I am God and know everything. But I don’t know which boy is Sohrab and which is Rustom!” The evening concluded with a sweet performance by Cyrus and Darian Blum(Rustom’s grandsons) .
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Meeting Place, Meher Center
May 22, 2026
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Uploaded July 10, 2026
The Art of Praise as a Path to God: Session Six
In this last session, Ward Parks shares a few of the themes and poetic concepts Francis Brabazon used in his book Stay with God. The book is a song and narrative performance of “The Divine Theme,” using The Ten States of God as outlined in God Speaks. In the book, Francis includes themes of devotion to and from God, using art as the medium, suggesting that the highest form of art is God descending into human form. Ward discusses how Francis uses many historical and mythical references to develop his themes. Baba was very pleased with Stay with God; He read it several times and encouraged some of his followers to keep more than one copy in the house.
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Meeting Place, Meher Spiritual Center
October 19, 2025
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Uploaded July 3, 2026
“It was like a restlessness was growing in me”
Daniel Stone was raised in a highly intellectual Jewish family in a “pretty atheistic environment.” So it may not be surprising that when he first heard about Meher Baba around 1970, his reaction was rather cautious and unsure. He found an authority in the Discourses, but he was also put off by the fact that he couldn’t figure out what to do to become a “Baba lover.” His path still took him to Myrtle Beach where Kitty Davy, out of the blue, suggested he go to Rishikesh. Daniel did just that and visited various ashrams, including that of Neem Karoli Baba where he had a profound “heart awakening experience.” Still, he didn’t feel that Neem Karoli was his “guru.” Daniel eventually made his way to Ahmednagar and there, on the road to Meherazad, he had an another deep, profound awakening. This time it was imprinted with Meher Baba saying to him, “I am your master.”
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Dilruba Reading Room, Meher Spiritual Center
March 28, 2026
Meher Center Archives
Uploaded July 3, 2026