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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.
“A fairytale filled with joy and pain”
The Kotwal family’s love for Meher Baba spans generations. Najoo Kotwal grew up in Meher Baba’s intimate company after her father Savak Kotwal and mother Nargiz decided to dedicate their lives to Baba and live under His direction at His ashram. In part one of this three part audio, Najoo recounts the early life of her father and what led him to seek God in the way he did, until he found Meher Baba in 1928. Baba’s entry into their lives caused her mother such great misery that she went to confront Him, but things did not go quite as expected.
Audio, 21:52
Meher Pilgrim Center, Meherabad, India
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
“It must be real”
Mollie Eve describes herself as a practical person who initially was very skeptical of Meher Baba when her husband became devoted to Him in the early 1950’s. However, as she slowly became involved in the British Baba group and met followers like Will and Mary Backett and William Donkin, Mollie started to feel that there was something more to Meher Baba than she had realized. Along with her daughter, Ann Eve (who shared her story last week), Mollie met Meher Baba in England in 1952 and 1956, and then at the East-West Gathering in India in 1962. In her self-described unsentimental way, she devoted the rest of her life to loving God.
Video, 28:12
London, England, June 3, 1985
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
“He had cured Himself”
Dr. Ram Ginde was a renowned neurosurgeon from Bombay who became a lover of Baba through his role as a doctor to Baba and His Mandali. In these short audio clips he narrates the story of his first meeting and treatment of Baba in his capacity as a doctor; another interesting story about Baba placing a bet on him; his thoughts on living a life with God and realizing Him; and finally, though in relation to the drug problem, some profound words from Baba about the spiritual path.
Audio, 42:26
October 7, 1968
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
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
“He could see right through me”
In this talk, Ann Eve relates her life with Baba. She first learned about Him as a child, when she and her parents spent time with Baba lovers in London like William and Mary Backett, Delia de Leon and Charles Purdom. Ann then met Baba Himself when He visited England in 1952 and in 1956 when she felt a “wonderful feeling of love” and being fully known by Him. Soon after, Ann moved in with a family of Indian Baba lovers in England: Baba’s brother, Adi Jr.; Adi’s wife, Freiny; and their daughter, Shireen, one of Baba’s favorite nieces. This connection led Ann to India in December of 1968, to the last group gathering with Baba—and to a tear-filled love embrace with God.
Video, 43:03
Meher Center Meeting Place, May 31, 1996
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
“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 surrendered to Baba”
In this video, Digambar Gadekar tells the story of his father, Ramchandra Gadekar. Ramchandra Gadekar, known by Baba simply as “Gadekar,” first went to see Baba to ask Him to help relieve a stomach-ache—but ended up asking for God-realization instead. The rest of Gadekar’s life was totally devoted to Baba, from the moments when Baba stopped by his house to eat a meal or spend time with his family; to the darshan programs Gadekar arranged and the Arti he performed; to the end of Gadekar’s life, when Baba took loving care of His “Crown Jewel“ until he died with Baba’s name on his lips.
Video, 1:29:48
Meher Center Meeting Place, December 11, 2004
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives