Tag Archives: Meher Baba’s Life

  1. Celebrating the One God

    Celebrating the One God

    In February 1922 in Pune, Meher Baba’s birthday was celebrated simply by His earliest disciples. There was singing, a delicious meal, arti, and a spirit of festivity and love. One disciple, Gulmai, gave Baba a thin gold chain with Zoroaster’s portrait in a locket. At that time, Baba had not said He was the Avatar,…

  2. A Downpour of Love: from West to East

    A Downpour of Love: from West to East

    Exactly sixty years ago, in November of 1962, Meher Baba hosted a historic event at Guruprasad Palace in Poona, India. He invited thousands of followers for an intimate four-day Sahavas. What set this darshan program apart from any other that had taken place before was its unique intent, as described by Baba: “Coming together of…

  3. “Messiah who adores Ping-Pong”

    “Messiah who adores Ping-Pong”

    The Sunday Mercury published in Birmingham England, June 12, 1932, ran an article entitled, “The Silent Man ‘Messiah’ who Adores Ping-Pong”. The article read, “Meher Baba is a vegetarian, teetotaler and non-smoker, wears long hair and a plush blazer and plays an excellent game of ping-pong.” Meher Baba did indeed enjoy a good game of…

  4. A Divine Explanation

    A Divine Explanation

    On May 14, 1943, 125 men gathered in Meherabad to spend five days with Baba and hear His explanation of the “Divine Theme.” Not uncommonly, Baba had shifted the dates of the meeting in the month leading up to it. But, as Bhau Kalchuri put it, “out of the instability surrounding Meher Baba’s activities came…

  5. The Doctor Who Treated God

    The Doctor Who Treated God

    On May 20, at 2:30 p.m., Meher Baba drove in a car toward His inevitable destiny along with His carefully chosen followers: Mehera, Mani, Meheru and Elizabeth. He was traveling from Myrtle Beach to California. But God willed it otherwise. In a few days would be the historic event that He had predicted on May…

  6. Life at the Center

    Life at the Center

    After seven years of immense and loving effort, Elizabeth Patterson wrote Baba in the fall of 1951 that His Center in Myrtle Beach was ready, that all His conditions for visiting the West had been met, and that she hoped He would come soon. He cabled back, “Absolutely happy EliNorina [Baba’s nickname for Elizabeth Patterson…

  7. God’s Father

    God’s Father

    It is Sheriar Moondegar Irani’s 169th birthday this month. Meher Baba’s sister, Mani, recalled that their father “was a living example of what Baba tells us to do, to be in the world but not of it.”[i] It started early. By age twelve, Sheriar’s longing for God was so intense that he left his home…

  8. A Grand Celebration

    A Grand Celebration

    In an invitation letter dated February 4th, 1937, Meher Baba’s secretary Chanji wrote to Mahatma Gandhi about the celebration of Shri Meher Baba’s forty-third birthday at His Nasik Retreat. “Among the principal functions on this occasion is the distribution of grain and cloth, as special prasad personally given by Shri Meher Baba to over ten…

  9. What a Mighty Beloved

    What a Mighty Beloved

    On the morning of February 1, 1969, seventeen-year-old Wendy Haynes was busy making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Happy Club, the Saturday gathering for some local children at the Center, when she received a call from Kitty Davy to rush to Dilruba to see Elizabeth Patterson. Wendy did not rush. The phone rang again….

  10. The Fire of Divine Love

    The Fire of Divine Love

    After the first dhuni was lit in Meherabad in 1925, Meher Baba asked each of His Mandali to write a poem about the dhuni. Many poems were written; however, the poem that continues to define the power and nature of the dhuni was composed by Baba Himself. Baba personifies the dhuni as if she were…