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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.
“Those who know the emperor do not bow to the guards”
In part two of this audio by Najoo Kotwal, Najoo shares how her father’s desperation for God and disillusionment with the world lead him to submit his life to Baba. Savak Kotwal showed up at Meher Baba’s ashram along with his family after giving up all his worldly possessions, but Meher Baba asked for more, until not one material object belonged to them. Happily the family surrendered and Baba beamed in satisfaction while making a powerful and eternal promise to Savak: to ‘give him the ocean.’
Audio, 23:06
Meher Pilgrim Center, Meherabad, India
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California
“The guiding hand of God”
Louis Agostini first began seeking a higher truth when as a young child he suddenly recognized the inevitability of death. This search took him everywhere from beginning training as a Catholic priest to becoming secretary for Paul Brunton (who, while writing his famous book, In Search of Secret India, had garnered an unimpressive view of Meher Baba). Then, in 1960, Louis found himself at Meher Center with Kitty, Elizabeth, and a number of Baba books. At long last, Baba’s truths began to answer his deep-seated questions. When he met Baba two years later at the East-West gathering, all he could whisper was, “thank You for everything.”
Video, 56:13
Meher Center Meeting Place, November 9, 2002
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
“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