Avatar Meher Baba Pearls – III
Come All Unto Me
August 2011
[On My part I and My love will never leave you here or hereafter. May you be
aware of it deeper and deeper day by day; My Blessings to you all.]
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COME ALL UNTO ME
Age after age when the wick of righteousness burns low The Avatar comes yet
once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth. Rings the Avatar’s call ‘Come
All Unto Me!’
I was Rama, I was Krishna, I was Christ, I was Zoroaster, I was this One, I was
that One, and now I am Meher Baba in the form of flesh and blood. I am the
same Ancient One, who alone is eternally worshipped and ignored, ever
remembered and forgotten and whose future advent is anticipated with great
fervor and longing.
I do not perform any miracles, but My Spiritual status is so high, that if anyone,
anywhere, in any difficulty at any time remembers me whole-heartedly with all
his heart, then the difficulty will be immediately solved. This is certain. God
does not abandon those who trust Him.
If you do not ask Me, whom else will you ask and who will give you. ASK ME
again and again but do not expect an answer. I will do what is good for you.
However, after I drop my body, if you were to ask me for anything at My Tomb,
your request will be granted. Remember this. But one who asks for My Love is
the chosen one. You can rely on Me and leave it to Me but do not make it
conditional.
While bowing down at My Tomb, I want you to remember two things:
1. To love Me whole-heartedly; Love does not mean the outward expression. You
should love Me in such a way that you forget yourself in Me, The Beloved.
2. To give happiness to others at the cost of your own happiness and comfort.
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PEARLS FOR EACH DAY OF THE WEEK
SUNDAY: PEARLS
I belong to no religion. Every religion belongs to Me. My personal religion is
My being the Ancient, Infinite One and the religion I impart to all is Love for
God, which is the Truth of all religion.
If we love God honestly, we become one with Him. Never before has
dishonesty and hypocrisy prevailed in the world as today. If the least hypocrisy
creeps into your thoughts, words and deeds; God, who is the innermost Self in
us all, keeps Himself hidden.
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our dear ones, we are loving
God.
If instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.
If instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others,
we are loving God.
If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the happiness of others
we are loving God.
If, instead of worrying over our own misfortune, we think of ourselves more
fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.
If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will, we
are loving God.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God
is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
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To love God as He ought to be loved we must live for God and die for God,
knowing that the goal of life is to love God and find Him as our own self.
God is absolutely independent. The only way to approach Him is through
love, constant repetition of His Name and invocation of His Mercy.
Mercy is God’s name.
Bliss is God’s original state.
Power is God’s existence.
Knowledge is God’s duty.
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MONDAY: PEARLS
The Infinite state of God gets lost in the Infinite jumble of Infinite
contradictions.
To know God in His Infinite contradictions is to become conscious of His
consciousness in His unconsciousness.
To achieve the God state, do absolutely nothing while doing everything.
To find God you must find yourself lost to yourself.
To be infinitely conscious, you must consciously lose consciousness of yourself.
Space is the gulf between Imagination and Reality. Evolution of consciousness
fills this gulf.
Time is the interval between your first imagination and your very last
imagination.
Where imagination ends God is and Godhood begins.
Imagination is an eternal mimicry of Reality affecting the shadow-play of
Illusions.
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TUESDAY: PEARLS
God is not anything comprehensible: He is Reality, Consciousness, Absolute
Consciousness, Infinite Consciousness.
Realization of God is Absolute Consciousness minus Consciousness of
Imagination. Godhood is Absolute Consciousness plus Consciousness of
Imagination being imagination.
Be ever present with God, never be absent from Him.
Do not desire union with God but long for union till you go beyond longing for
union and long only for the will and pleasure of Beloved God.
Mind may die. Maya may die. Body dies and dies. But hope and thirst never
die. Thus has said Kabir.
Complete forgetfulness of self is to even forget that you have forgotten.
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Complete remembrance of God, honesty in action, making no one unhappy,
being the cause of happiness in others and no submission to low, selfish, lustful
desires, while living a normal worldly life, can lead on to the path of Realization.
But complete obedience to the God-Man brings one directly to God.
The more you try to understand God, you understand Him less and less. How
can He, who is beyond explanation, be expressed? His being Infinitely simple
has rendered Him Infinitely difficult. The secret is that you have to become
what you are.
God does not listen to the language of the tongue, which constitutes japs,
zikra, mantras and devotional songs. He does not listen to the language of the
mind, which constitutes meditation, concentration and thoughts about God. He
listens only to the language of the heart which constitutes Love. So love God
and be free in this very life.
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WEDESDAY: PEARLS
If you were to ask Me why I do not talk, I would say perhaps for three reasons.
Firstly, I feel that through you all I am eternally talking. Secondly, to relieve the
boredom of talking incessantly through your forms, I keep silence in My
personal physical form. Thirdly, because all talk in itself is idle talk: lectures,
messages, statements, discourse of any kind, spiritual or otherwise, imparted
through utterances or writings, are just idle talk when not acted upon or lived
up to.
Our very life should be such as to be God’s message of Truth in the world. In
our everyday life of worldly duties, if Love – Service – Honesty is manifested,
renunciation is achieved without renouncing the world.
The whole of life is like playing a game of hide and seek in which you have to
find your real Self. I give you My Blessings for the success of this, which will
make you realize life as all-time play.
Children are innocent and free from vain egoism. Children can have no low
desires. After becoming free from all childishness, when a man really becomes
child-like, he can Realize God.
In the material world every pie of money counts. In the subtle world every
ounce of energy counts. In the mental world every force of thought counts. In
the beyond state only God counts and in the realm of God-Man everything
counts as nothing and nothing counts as everything.
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If instead of mechanically performing ceremonies and rituals because of age-
old customs, people were to serve their fellow beings with selflessness of love,
taking God to be equally residing in one and all and knowing that by so serving
others they are serving Me, My work will have been fulfilled.
God alone is real and all else is false. So you must try to love God, who is
within us all and to gain this love you should try to be honest in your thoughts,
words and actions.
It is not what the world thinks of us that matters but what God knows about us
that matters.
Unless we are stripped of all egoistic tendencies and desires and unless our
soul attains its original naked state, we cannot embrace God the Beloved, who is
eternally naked in His Infinity.
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THURSDAY: PEARLS
I have come not to teach but to Awaken. Understand, therefore, that I lay
down no precepts.
Because man has been to the principles and precepts laid down in the past, in
the present Avataric form, I observe Silence. You have asked for and have been
given enough words; it’s now time to live them.
To get nearer to God, you have to get farther and farther away from ‘I’, ‘my’,
‘me’ and ‘mine’. You have not to renounce anything but your own self.
I repeat, I lay down no precepts. When I release the tide of Truth, which I
have come to give, men’s daily lives will be living precepts. The words I have not
spoken will come to life in them.
I veil Myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance and manifest My Glory
to a few. My present Avataric form is the last incarnation in this cycle of time
and hence My manifestation will be the greatest.
I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can love yourself. The
breaking of My Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.
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I say with Divine authority that I am in you all and if you honestly love God, you
will find Him everywhere. Remember, if you cannot love God and cannot lead
saintly lives, then at least do not make a show of love and saintliness, because
the worst scoundrels are better than hypocritical saints.
It is now high time that the very agonies of our times should become a means
for the bringing of real understanding of human relationships.
The balanced progress of humanity can be assured if science and religion
proceed hand in hand.
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FRIDAY: PEARLS
The coming civilization of the new humanity will not be ensouled by dry
intellectual doctrines but by living spiritual experiences.
If two persons have headaches, they can use the intellect to discuss their
mutual experience. But if one of them has never had a headache, no amount of
intellectual explanation will ever tell him what a headache is. Intellectual explanation can never be a substitute for spiritual experience.
Unlearn all you have learned intellectually. Do not remember the past, forget
the present and do not think of the future.
Renounce everything and everyone including your own self.
Escape from all that is illusionary and take refuge in reality.
Burn all your desires and longings and kindle the one and only desire and
longing – union with the Beloved.
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To have My real darshan is to find Me. The way to find me is to find your
abode in Me. The only one and sure way to find your abode in Me is to love Me.
To love Me as I love you, you must become the recipient of my Grace. To
receive my Grace, you must obey me whole heartedly with the firm foundation
of unshakable faith in Me. And you can only obey me spontaneously, as I want,
when you completely surrender yourself to Me so that My wish becomes your
law and My love sustains your being. Age after age many aspire for such
surrender but only few really attempt to surrender themselves to Me
completely as I want. He who succeeds not only finds Me but also becomes Me
and realizes the goal of life.
My being in your midst today would serve its purpose even if one from
among this multitude has understood what I want you all to know.
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SATURDAY: PEARLS
To be worthy of the divine gift of love, let all your thoughts, words and deeds
be controlled by the constant remembrances of God.
All talk about the path and goal is like a lantern carried by a blind man. A
blind man needs a staff in his hand; the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man.
All that frightens and confuses you and grips you with despair is your own
shadow. When the sun of love manifests in its glory and your faces are turned
towards that radiance, all shadows will have disappeared and even the memory
of them will have vanished.
For a post to stand erect and firm it must have both its ends sunk well into the
ground. Likewise, My lover needs to have the base of his faith deeply
embedded in divinity if he would remain steadfast in his love.
Births and deaths are illusory phenomena. One really dies when one is born
to live as God, the Eternal, who is beyond both birth and death.
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Take My advice and accept ‘God Speaks’ as the final authority. Nothing of its
kind has been recorded before.
HIS INFINITE SELF
Why should misery perpetually exist on earth in spite of God’s Infinite love and
mercy?
“The source of Eternal Bliss is the self in all and the cause of perpetual misery is
the selfishness of all. As long as satisfaction is derived through selfish pursuits,
misery will always exist. Only because of the infinite love and mercy of God can
man learn to realize, through the lesson of misery on earth, that inherent in him
is the source of infinite bliss and that all suffering is His labour of love to unveil
His own Infinite Self.”
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TIMELESS PEARLS
Repeating My Name itself is a Prayer and repeating my name whole-
heartedly is the greatest prayer that one can offer spontaneously for which no
time or place is required.
Remember Me whole-heartedly and continuously while attending to your
worldly duties. This is the best form of meditation and is the most natural and
spontaneous. Let My name serve as a net around you.
Think of Me more and more and all your worries will disappear into the
nothing they really are. My Divine Will works out to awaken you to this. Face
your problems bravely. I am with you. I reside in your heart all the time; 24
hours every moment of your life and I am there in every breath that you
breathe.
Universal Prayer and Prayer of Repentance: The most important thing is My
participation in the Prayer. After I drop my body, whoever recites these Prayers
will be helped because of My participation now. When anyone repeats these
Prayers I am there with them. My Presence is there.
Accept whatever God gives with firm faith in His Love and Grace. Then you
will find peace and strength.
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Be content with your lot, rich or poor, happy or miserable. Understand that
God has designed it for your own good and be resigned to His Will. I do not
change your destiny but I give you inner strength to face the battle of life.
If in everyday life you practice love, service, and honesty, then renunciation is
achieved without renouncing the world.
Worry is unnecessary. Necessary worry is not good but unnecessary worry is
madness. If you worry about yourself God does not worry about you. If you
stop worrying God has begun to worry about you. Leave your worries to Him
and be cheerful and happy.
I am the Power House. The Power House will never fail provided one is careful
about the connections with it.
If you have ever come across any savage animal or if you find yourself in a
perilous situation, cry out My Name loudly, I will then save you. At all moments
of danger you should cry out My Name, so loud that the sound of My Name falls
on the creatures ears, which will make it as weak as a lamb. Before inanimate
objects, during any serious mishap or accident such as car crash, train wreck,
you will be saved by remembering Me with full faith from the bottom of your
heart.
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Let your desire be only to find real bliss, to find Truth and to find God.
Constantly have this longing and you will achieve it. Every morning, very early,
spare only five minutes for this. Seek a place, aloof and try to meditate,
thinking: ‘God is One. He is everywhere and there is nothing but Him.’ Do this
for only five minutes daily. I will see that you experience something.
Real worship is within; inside the heart and not in outward muttering of
words. To enter the spiritual path, one has to go beyond religious ceremonies.
One cannot grasp the truth through intellect. All the disorders of the world are
due to the mind. He who conquers it conquers everything and is a real hero.
Over the ages you have collected a mixture of good and bad sanskaras. All
sanskaras must be eradicated from the mind so that they may not reproduce
again. Only a Sadguru can root them out completely. To stop the creation of
new sanskaras and to destroy the past ones, have the company and sahavas of a
Guru who is Realized. A Guru who is God Conscious is like a live furnace
burning away everything, good, bad, past, present and future; all the
sanskaras.
I am the creator. I am the sustainer. I provide you with everything. I am
perfection personified. I have everything except your imperfections. All I need
are your imperfections. Offer Me your imperfections so that you will be free of
them and I, as the in-dweller in you, will be receiving them.
If you want to be free, free you are, but you do not really want to be free and
therefore you continue to feel yourself bound. You want to lead a perfect life of
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love and service. When you really have that want, you will not need to worry
how to lead the life – you will live it.
I have come to remind all people that they should live on earth as the children
of one father until My Grace awakens them to the realization that they are one
without a second and all the divisions and conflicts and hatred are but a shadow
play of their own imagination.
When I the Ancient One embraces you, I am awakening something which
gradually grows within you. It is the seed of love I sow; it will take its own time
to flower and fructify.
The more you receive My sahavas and My love with open heart, you begin to
understand Me more and more. Leave all your doubts and remember well that
whatever I do is for the best. It is the divine response filled with love divine.
Spirituality is the undoing of what you have been doing since ages. Spiritual
progress is not a process of accumulation from without, it is an unfoldment
from within. Spirituality is not cowardice to give in. If you cannot love at least
have the courage to give in. Spirituality does not mean renunciation of
mundane desires. The most difficult thing in spiritual life is to be perfectly
human. In trifles take no risk, in business take a few risks; in spirituality take
every risk. In the spiritual life there is no room for compromise. When a man is
spiritually prepared, he is completely desire-less and is full of impersonal love.
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The best worker is one who is able to evoke love for Baba in others. If you
want to love Me, you should not create confusion among yourselves. Start
learning to love God by loving those whom you cannot love.
Uninvited suffering is a blessing in disguise. God loves most those who suffer
most. In order to be Infinitely merciful I must be Infinitely cruel. Those whom I
love most I destroy. I have to be cruel to be kind. My real mercy lies in making
mince-meat of you.
Because I love you so much, I harass you so much. This harassment is My
Prasad for you and My Grace. It is My real mercy which descends on a very few,
select few. Those are my friends. They are my lovers to whom I give the gift of
sorrow and distress. This gift is only for my beloved children. We, masters, can
give a world of gold, happiness and prosperity to others by our blessings. But
this rare gift of privations, troubles and suffering is destined only for a few.
Every heart that loves Me is My ashram. Take Me with you – I am within.
When you keep talking I conceal Myself. When you keep silent I reveal Myself.
God is shy of strangers; such as your age-old desires and millions of wants. A
moment of one’s life passed with a Sadguru is more valuable than thousands of
years of tapa or japa.
If anyone loves anybody, that love ultimately comes to Me, because I am
there.
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To come to me means experiencing Me as I am; no more bondage of births
and deaths. Sorrow at the death of a loved one is a form of selfishness. The
selfishness of not being able to satisfy their minds in the absence of the sight of
their dear ones makes them weep, not so much death itself.
When any human body drops the physical body, the Jeevatma is stationed in
the astral world for 40 to 72 hours before entering the hell or heaven state.
Those closely connected with the Avatar or Sadguru do not enter heaven or hell
but take birth almost immediately. After death the soul takes four days to break
its ties from the gross body. Prayers offered for the four days after the death of
a person help the soul to break its ties. Crying and wailing after death of the
person has a contrary effect on the departed soul and its severance of its earthly
ties is all the more difficult. Once the human form is gained, the soul can never
pass back into lower forms.
If My silence cannot speak, what avail is words? My message can be only
given the way it should be given by the life you live, without you speaking even
a word.
Everything happens by the will of God and is necessary.
I am to each what each feels I am. I am in you all. I am everywhere. I am the
only companion who is with you from the very beginning and will remain with
you till the very end. I am the only friend who will not let you down.
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Do not worry. Be happy. Worry is unnecessary. Necessary worry is not good
but unnecessary worry is madness. Do everything but do not worry. Worrying
binds. When one is beyond worry, one is happy. Do not worry. Worry
accumulates and grows in strength and becomes a habit long after the original
cause has ceased to be. Think of me more and more and all your worries will
disappear into the nothing they really are. My divine will works out to awaken
you to this. Your only worry should be that you never forget God.
You cannot blame anyone for your condition. Whatever you want to be that
you become and which is governed by the law of karma, cause and effect.
However, if you want to blame anyone, blame Me, for everything in the
universe has come out of Me and so I am the only one who can be blamed.
Accept what God gives you with firm faith in His love and grace. Then you will
find peace and strength.
Always say ‘All is well and beautiful. I am happy.’ Say to yourself ‘I am meant
to be happy to make others happy. Life is so beautiful and meant to be happy.’
It is always the outlook that counts and not the subject I will help you.
Do not seek My blessings which is always with you, but long for the day when
My grace will descend on all who love Me. Most blessed are they who do not
even long for My grace but simply seek to do My will.
Life is a game of hide and seek; where the seeker seeks until he finds that he
himself is the sought.
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Mind stopped is God. Mind working is man. Mind slowed down is mast.
Mind working fast is mad.
Man is born once with the birth of the mind and man dies once with the
annihilation of the mind. Birth of the mind involves the process of evolution,
reincarnation and involution. Death of the mind is the realization of the Self.
Of the three worlds in the gross sphere which was inhabited by human beings,
ours, this earth, is the one wherein man is highest spiritually. Man on this earth
possesses in his personality equal degrees of head and heart (50% head and 50
% heart). Man in the other two worlds possess 100% head and 75% head and
25% heart respectively. Man in the course of his reincarnation is born in any of
the three worlds but must finally take form and reincarnate on this earth to
fulfill his divine destiny which is God Realization. In the gross sphere the earth is
the last and nearest stepping stone to the path. The two other worlds are most
close to the earth in the pattern of habitation. Although there are 18000 worlds
with life these two worlds and the earth are akin to one another in the pattern
of human life.
My next advent will be in 700 years when all the five Perfect Masters will be
men.
Creation is really a mighty joke but the laugh is at My own expense and now
the jest is proving a burden on My chest. It is I who have cancer, for you all
around Me and the whole world are My cancerous growth and I suffer
continuously. I am so infinite that I Myself cannot fathom My infinity.
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Unless a snake is killed by a human being it remains always a snake.
Remember whosoever forms a friendship with Me, loses everything, even
the Self. Come only with longing to give Me your all: body, mind and
possessions with all the attachments. I am the One who many seek but few
find. All worship eventually comes to me. I am the Ocean of purity. Those who
wait for Me never wait it vain. Hold on to My daaman and wait for My call.
Never think you are obliging anybody by rendering any kind of help. On the
contrary believe that the recipient of your generosity gives you a chance to serve
yourself.
If you marry, you incur seven more births and it is for this reason saints and
realized Masters advice their devotees an unmarried life. These seven births go
on multiplying: 7 X 7 = 49 X 7 = 343 X 7 = 2401 X 7 and so on.
One day I will take you to the place where creation started.
I do not sleep but I rest at a certain point between the sixth and seventh plane.
Do not be discouraged. Although you do not have the love that is needed,
you have deep faith in Me. Try always to remember Me, to speak to Me. This is
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the best beginning and the determination to be ready to receive My grace. If
this continues, a day will come when you will be the lucky one. Perpetuate this
feeling in your heart and increase it, making it deeper and deeper. Remember
Me after starting and finishing your work. Say’ ‘Baba, it is you and not I who
am doing’. This gradually minimizes the strength of the ego and eventually
destroys it. Do not forget I am the cause and effect.
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you
desire nothing, you are half way on the path. When nothing becomes
everything you are perfected.
No one is so bad as to not to improve and become good. Everyone, however
depraved, can improve and become better until he becomes a paragon of
virtue. There is always hope for everyone.
Not only in this incarnation but every time I come I stress that love is the
remedy. I love you. Do not worry about your weaknesses. Eventually they will
go, even if they linger love will one day consume them. Everything disappears in
the Ocean of love. Because I love you, you have a pool of love within you. It is
always there. Even if you wash your weaknesses everyday in that pool, it will
remain clear. Do not worry. Baba loves you and that is what really matters.
Only intense love for Me brings you to obey Me as I want you to do. I am the
Ocean of love and you are the drops in the Ocean.
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To those whose hearts are pure and simple true love comes as a gift through
the activating grace of a Master.
Your love for yourself veils Me. You love for Me unveils Me. It is love alone
which can lift the veil between lover and beloved. You and I remain divided by
nothing but the veil of you yourself. Eventually it is I who gives you love. You
have your love in a small way. You have to exercise that love. Try to love Me in
that small way to prepare yourself for the time when I shall give My love in a big
way.
Start learning to love God by loving those whom you cannot. All paths are
mine and all lead eventually to Me. But the shortest way to Me is the path of
self-annihilating love. My way is the way of love, of self effacement. Although I
take birth for all mankind, fortunate are the ones who love Me while I am on
earth.
While working in seclusion I leave My physical body which will be dead to
feelings of touch and I will not feel if the body were hammered or cut. I draw a
boundary all around of a radius of 50 yards so that no one can come in. Anyone
trying to cross the boundary line will instantly drop dead. That is why I keep a
watch at a distance of 100 yards. I am really the one who is not in seclusion. It
is the rest of humanity that is in seclusion and I have come to make it emerge
into eternal freshness.
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In the divine game I am the only live child. I play with the universe and so-
called beings and things are to Me toys. I am a farmer too; I till the universe. In
700 years when I come again there will be no more grapes on earth; maybe that
will help stop drunkenness too.
I use the circumstances of everyday life and liberate my devotees but I use
them in a way that is beyond the comprehension of the intellect. So you must
not expect Me to provide you with blue prints of My plans. Have faith in Me,
supreme faith. I am always with you, directing you as you are My own vehicle.
Whatever you accomplish in all that you do or do not do is My will. You are an
instrument in My divine orchestra, an instrument which I need that which must
be perfected.
To obey Me is the best religious act that you can perform and by doing so you
will free yourself from all the bondages of the customs and rites of religion.
The Book: the discourses of mine are nothing compared to what I have
written in My Book at Meherabad. Its 300 pages cover only short points and
when they are fully amplified and re-written; the points will comprise several
large volumes. It is full of secrets which no previous saint, prophet or Avatar has
ever divulged. The book has not been read by anyone and no one is aware
where it is.
The best time for meditation is between 3am and 5am. There is a connection
between the sun and the universe and in order to meditate, one must cross the
solar planes. In order to give push to the devotees, Sadgurus especially stand
in the front of these planes and the universe between 3 and 5 am.
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Think of others more than you think of yourselves. Use up your bodies for
the same. This is absolutely necessary if you want to realize God.
No sooner you begin to love those whom you cannot love, you begin to love
Me as I should be loved.
When one completely depends on Me and leaves things to Me I see that the
reverses from the head gradually give way. Your own weakness open your way
and lead you to rise above them. They all have to come out once and the
sooner the better. The trouble with you is that you do not leave everything
entirely to me.
Hold fast to my daaman so that I will take you where I go as otherwise you will
be lost.
I am the emperor. But if you go after the guards and servants of the palace it
is sheer folly on your part.
Shut the tap of your mind and end all worries. Open the tap of your heart
and release love.
I am the purest of the pure. I can purify the worst sinners.
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I am a thief. If I do not steal your heart how will you remember Me.
One line prayer: Hari, Paramathma, Allah, Ahuramazda, God, Yezdan, Hu.
Do not seek material pleasure and you will find the spiritual treasure for
which there are three ways:
o Earn it yourself by self denial
o Receive it as a spontaneous gift from God given to His lover whose self has been
effaced in the intensity of his longing for the Beloved
o Inherit it directly from a Perfect Master who bequeaths it to those who remain
completely resigned to him.
Silence: The state which transcends speech and thought is mouna; it is
meditation without mental activity. Subjugation of the mind is meditation.
Deep meditation is eternal speech.
Love makes the formless and infinite become enformed and finite as the God-
Man among men.
To suffering humanity I say: have hope. I have come to help you in
surrendering yourself to the cause of God and in accepting His grace of love and
truth. I have come to help you in winning the one victory of all victories – to win
yourself.
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Everyone seeks to be happy and yet most persons are immersed in some
kind of suffering. Man seeks happiness through the fulfillment of his desires but
such a fulfillment is never an assured thing. Hence in the pursuit of desires man
is also unavoidably preparing for the suffering from their non-fulfillment.
I am nearer to you than your own breath. Remember Me and I am always
with you and my love will guide you. So keep me with you always. Through
unfathomable ways I lead you to liberation. Accept My rhythm, come in tune
with it without reservations.
Better think of me when you eat, sleep, see or hear. Enjoy everything, do not
discard anything but think it is Baba who is enjoying, who is eating, sleeping
soundly and when you wake up remember Baba is getting up. If you do wrong
think Baba is doing wrong. If you get a pain, think it is Baba who is having the
pain. Keep this one thought constantly with you. If you do all this sincerely, you
will know something.
It is natural that at times you feel 100% miserable but be sure that I know
everything. When everything goes wrong the mind becomes helpless and has to
rely on the heart. These are the only moments when you resign to My will and
rely solely on My help. When you call Me I dare not neglect you and you get
relief from your predicament.
In your daily lives be more careful of your thoughts, words and actions. If you
go against what you express, it would be an insult to Me.
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Be happy in whatever situation you find yourself in because it is I who placed
you there.
Pray. It is good to pray. But the prayer that reaches Me is not a long list of
wants, that will never reach Me. Just say My name and it will reach Me. When
you pray asking for something that prayer does not reach Me. But if you ask Me
but do not expect an answer that prayer reaches Me. Man’s heart is such that it
pours out in many words. Let these words help you to glorify Me and even if
there is a loving, long list of all the glories that you attribute to Me, that will
reach Me.
Some of the prayers invariably contain an element of asking something from
God, either material or spiritual. In fact, God is so merciful that even without
asking, He always gives much more than His lovers can receive. He knows their
minds more deeply than they do. Therefore, the element of asking something
from God is superfluous. It often mars the inner love and worship which a
prayer brings to express.
The ideal prayer to the Lord is nothing more than a spontaneous praise of His
being. Not thinking ill of others itself is a spontaneous prayer. Prayers and
forms of worship are only the means for realization of God. You are much lost in
the formality of the thing and its details, that instead of God you are
worshipping the prayer. By all means perform your prayer but do not become
an automaton.
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Think thoughts you would not hesitate to think in My presence. Speak words
you would not hesitate to speak in My presence. Do things you would not
hesitate to do in My presence.
The people of the world, the masses do not really believe in the existence of
God. They merely fear God as an unknown mighty being, who rewards the good
and worthy and punishes the wicked. It is the punishment of hell created by
God that they fear more than God Himself. If they really believed in Him, in His
existence and were afraid of Him, their behavior would be quite different from
what it is today: dishonesty, selfishness, deceitfulness and wickedness. If they
really felt afraid of God, they would be ever alert not to do anything that would
displease Him or that He would not like. If they really trusted in God and
believed in His existence, they would never rest until they found Him. For,
when love of Him comes, fear vanishes and when love reaches its zenith, the
lover finds that he himself is the Beloved.
What is love? To give and never to ask; what leads to this love? Grace. The
points that lead to grace are wishing well for others at the cost of one’s self,
never back-biting, tolerance supreme, trying not to worry, thinking more of the
good points in others and less of bad points. What you have been doing is
thinking of yourself. So, now you must not think of yourself but think of others.
This is what is called love, but it needs character, poise and perseverance. Poise
is the state of mind where nothing excites you. Then only can you help others
and then only can you make others happy.
Rejection of desire by controlling action avoids the possibility of sowing
seeds of future desires. When desires are denied their expression and
fulfillment in action and are allowed to pass through the intensity of the fire of a
cognitive consciousness which does not sanction them, the seeds of these
desires are consumed. Rejection of desires is a preparation for desirelessness or
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the state of non-wanting which alone can bring about thorough freedom. One
who loves God has only one longing, one worry; that is to become one with
God. Want nothing and you will have everything.
The most practical way for the common man to express the language of the
heart while attending to his daily duties is to speak lovingly, think lovingly, act
lovingly towards all mankind, irrespective of cast or creed and taking God to be
present in each and everyone. Let your own life of love for Baba be the
message of Baba’s love for one and all.
Be honest. Weaknesses there are. Don’t be afraid of them. You must be
afraid of dishonesty. Who does not get bad thoughts? They are the foundation
of life. No house can stand without foundation. Thoughts can be good or bad.
One should take care of one’s actions. Had it been for the weakness of
everyone, there would have been no difference between you and Me.
Every time you go to sleep, you are unconsciously united with the Infinite
Reality.
The signal of the master comes when you least expect it. It comes when the
disciple is beyond fooling himself. It always comes at the last confirmatory
benediction from the eternal witness.
The only message that I could give and have been giving is ‘Love God’ and
you will find that your own self is nothing but God. I am one of you. One with
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you and we all are one. To realize this oneness, love God wholeheartedly and
honestly, sacrificing everything at the altar of this supreme love and you will
realize the Beloved within you.
Trust God completely and He will solve all your difficulties. Faithfully leave
everything to Him and He will see to everything. Love God sincerely and He will
reveal Himself to you. This love needs no ceremony or show. Your heart must
love Him so that even your mind is not aware of it.
Do not be angry but be pleased with one who back-bites about you, for
thereby he renders service to you by diminishing the load of your sanskaras.
Also, pity him, for thereby, he makes his load of sanskaras more burdensome.
Do not criticize. The habit of criticizing fellow beings is bad. At the bottom of it
lie self righteousness, conceit and a false sense of superiority. Sometimes it
indicates envy or a desire for retaliation.
You say you do not like to live, you feel tired of this life and body.
Unwelcome thoughts and bad thoughts disturb you and make you unhappy.
But life is thoughts and not body. The body is there when you are asleep. The
moment you wake up, you begin to think. Nobody in this world is satisfied with
his lot. Nobody feels completely happy. Think of the poor creatures, the
paralyzed, and the lepers and there are thousands like these silently dragging
on. Why not compare your lot with the dumb illiterate millions. You will realize
you are most fortunate.
If a man wants the happiness he is striving for, let him be more aggressive
towards himself and more tolerant towards others.
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The whole of life is like playing a game of hide and seek in which you have to
find your Real Self. Unless you lose yourself you cannot find yourself. This mean
three things in one. First love God so much that you forget yourself. Second,
sacrifice all your carnal desires for the soul. Third, be completely resigned to
God’s will.
If people were to ask me: ‘Have you seen God?’ I would reply: “What else is
there to see?” If they were to ask me: ‘Are you God?’I would reply: “What else
could I be?” if they were to ask me: ‘Are you the Avatar?’ I would say: “Why else
have I taken this human form?” I am the one that so many seek and so few find.
Although I appear to be silent, I speak through you all. People generally remain
indifferent when I am present among them. They understand and appreciate
Me after I drop My body. This is the way whenever I come.
When God manifests on earth in the form of man and reveals His divinity to
mankind; he is recognized as the Avatar. Then God becomes man.
The Avatar is always one and the same, because God is always One and the
same, eternal, indivisible, infinite, one who manifests Himself in the form of
man as the Avatar; the Highest of the High.
You belittle Me if you tell people that they should forget their devotion to
Rama, Krishna, Christ, Zoroaster or anything of that sort. I am the same Ancient
One. If others are devoted to Rama, Krishna, Christ, Zoroaster or others and if
you drag them out of their devotion and try to divert it to Me, you belittle Me in
their devotion, because I am the same Rama, Krishna, Christ, Zoroaster or
others. I am the ‘Fresh stock’.
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God is the most intimate one but His grace is required to have His close
contact. Remember that all your companions in the world will be there only for
a relatively few years, while I will be your companion until the end. I am your
Real Companion. I want you to make Me your constant companion. I am the
only friend who will not let you down.
When My lovers pointedly call Me I dare not ignore them. I am the slave of
the love of My lovers.
You can leave your mind to My care by remembering Me or repeating My
name silently as often as you can.
If you link yourself to Me, even with a small pipeline you can draw all the
energy for yourself.
I am the One to take, the One to give what you want, as you want. Want
nothing and you will have everything.
Whenever you find yourself helpless, call for My help and I am prepared to
give it to you.
Remember that when anyone hurts you, it is I who hurt you. When anyone
loves you, it is I who love you. When anyone laughs at you, it is I who am
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laughing. When you love anyone, it is I whom you love. I am in all things. How
can you realize My Infinite presence, if you shrink from Me in those who hurt you
and welcome Me in those who please you?
If you want to love Me you should not create confusion among yourselves.
Love Me in everyone. Serve Me in each other. I am present whenever or
wherever I am remembered with love. I am present at any saskirtan done with
love, irrespective of numbers. What counts is My Presence. Love means
longing, love means restlessness, love means harassment, and love means
separation.
All religions are revelations of One God. You are not to give up your religion
but to give up clinging to the outer husk of mere rituals and ceremonies. The
basis of all religions is nothing but love for God and so what is really needed is to
establish that love in our hearts without formalizing it. Always remember that
rites, rituals and ceremonies cover Me but pure worship reveals Me. The
religion I give teaches the knowledge of the One behind the many. Follow any
religion you like but follow its innermost nucleus. My personal religion is My
being the Ancient One and the religion I impart to all is love for God which is
the Truth of all religion.
Spirituality does not mean renunciation of worldly activities. It means the
internal renunciation of mundane desires. True spirituality is not concerned
with any part of life but with life in its totality in all its aspects. Spirituality is the
undoing of what you have been doing since ages.
Untimely physical healing retards spiritual healing; if borne willingly, physical
and mental suffering can make one worthy of receiving spiritual healing.
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Consider these as gifts from God which if accepted gracefully lead to everlasting
happiness.
It is a divine act to always look cheerful. Divinity is not devoid of humanity.
Feelings at rest and thoughts at work is mind. Thoughts at rest and feelings
at work is heart.
The mind is capable of turning the bitterest enemy into the sweetest friend
by constantly thinking well of him.
Wanting is a state of disturbed equilibrium and non-wanting is a state of
poise. The more you want the more miserable you are. What you need is not
blind repression but an intelligent sublimation of desires. I give not what people
want but what people need. What one seeks with all his heart, one gets.
When you say you sought and did not get, it means you did not seek as you
ought to have sought.
I am God and I am insulted every moment and yet I never fail to respond with
love. My grace is eternally flowing. Wherever you go, I am there. Show me the
place where I am not. I am whatever anyone takes Me to be.
My remembrance is the solution to all the problems in the world.
Repetition of my name sincerely will serve as a net around you.
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All your relations and friends in the world are only your companions for the
time being. They remain with you for a certain period but I am the only
companion who is with you from the very beginning and will remain with you till
the very end.
Eventually it is in My hands to give you love. It is in your hands to serve Me,
to love Me and to love Me in your own small way. The great love that I am
going to give you will be My own gift to you.
It is easy to love Baba if Baba bestows health, money, fame, influence etc.
When Baba withdraws all these and when there is ‘nash’ of these things, to
remain steadfast and love Baba; that is indeed My miracle. To love Me for what
I may give you is not loving Me at all.
For purification of the heart, leave your thoughts alone but maintain
constant vigil over your actions. Let the thoughts of anger lust, greed etc, come
freely without putting these into words and deeds. Then the related
impressions of your mind begin to wear out and become less harmful. When
you feel angry or have lustful thoughts, remember Baba once. Let My name
serve as a net around you.
Whenever you get excited; feel others are unjust, feel they pass remarks,
feel you are in the right and they are in the wrong; the very moment you feel all
this; remember Me and control.
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When one completely depends on Me and leaves things to Me, I see that the
reverses from the head gradually give way. I will order everything for the best
as you deserve. The way you feel and your own weaknesses open your way and
lead you to rise above them. They all have come out once and the sooner the
better.
Love Me more and more and that will take care till nothing but pure love
divine remains.
God is everywhere and does everything.
God is within us and knows everything.
God is without us and sees everything.
God is beyond us and is everything.
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SPIRITUALITY
“What is spirituality? It is the undoing of what you have been doing since ages.
You always thought of selfish motives: eating, preserving your life, and
attending to every need with zeal. All these lives you have made a habit of
looking to yourself. If the slightest thing goes against your habit you are upset.
Now, to undo all these selfish bindings, you have to do what you have not been
doing, or not to do what you have been doing.
What you have been doing always is thinking of yourself, so now you must not
think of yourself, but think of others. This is what is called ‘love’. But it needs
character, poise, perseverance. Poise; what is it? That state of mind where
nothing excites you, nothing upsets you. Only if you have poise can you help
others, then only can you make others happy. That means love: thinking not of
yourself, but of others.
If you are in the Sahara, and for four days you have no water to drink at all, all of
a sudden, one bottle of water appears; how do you react? If you have poise,
you will let your companion drink and not mind dying and letting her live. But if
you fight and grab for it, you lack poise and spirituality. It is this poise that
makes you sacrifice and makes others happy.
For example, I always say: Make the best of everything. Here you have food,
swimming, boating. Make the most of them and feel happy. Do not say it is not
spiritual to enjoy little pleasures. But when we are driving on tour and there is
dust and we feel hunger, thirst and feel sick, then feel as happy as you do now.
That is poise. If you do not feel happy now, it is not easy to feel happy while
travelling. I do not mean making a show of being happy, but really to feel
happy.
For my circle, it is all right. You live with me, leave all for me, so you are serving
the universe. But for those who are not living near me, this poise is one
hundred percent essential for spirituality.
Again, what is spirituality? Poise! Perfect poise! Make the most of every
situation. He who upsets no one is a good man. He who is upset by no one is
a God-Man!”
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MY PLACES OF VISIT: SPIRITUAL VALUE
Whenever I visit a place and stay there for however short a time, its spiritual
atmosphere becomes greatly elevated;
Myrtle Beach: ages ago this was a place where I moved about and stayed. The
combination of the lake, the ocean and the woods, give it a unique atmosphere.
I never leave, remember, because this is My home.
Mathura, Gokul, Vriindavan: when I see these places I remember My old habits.
They are like My old well remembered haunts. Here was I when I used to play
with My Gopis and steal milk and curds. Here I played My flute and here My
Radha would come running to Me. Now I have brought My new gopis with Me
and now Mehera is My Radha.
Switzerland: I have drawn a circle round the country so that it will not be
involved in the coming war.
Meherabad: this is the most important one. It is the best place for those on
the spiritual path. In the future Meherabad will be like Jerusalem. For My
spiritual work it is the best place. It will always be the centre of My work.
At Ceylon: the ashrams which I have founded in Devonshire, New York, Nasik,
Ahmednagar and Madras are open to all.
Byramangala: (near Bangalore)
Nasik: you will never understand My universal work. During this period of my
Avatarhood I had to cleanse the world completely. This over-hauling will last a
thousand years. During My Avatarhood the greatest work will be achieved: the
union of East and the West. I am the universal Avatar and not an Avatar for the
East or the West individually as in previous advents. I belong to the whole
universe.
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USA: I intend bringing together all the religions and cults like beads on one
string and revitalize them for individual and collective needs. This is My mission
in the West. The peace and harmony that I shall talk of and that will settle on
the face of the world is not far off.
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WHO WAS WHO
I am the Avatar. There are always 56 God Realized souls. Five out of the 56 are
sent out into the world. But in the Avataric period these five become one, thus
demonstrating the cycle when the Avatar appears in human form. Therefore,
the Avatar exists in the hearts of the five in One. All are one. But in the
Avataric period the Avatar is equal to five Sadgurus.
Ganesh was the first in creation to become God realized and he is the same
Ancient One who comes down again and again, age after age as the
embodiment of the Universal Mind.
I was Shivaji, the Maratha warrior in my last birth. At that time Sadhashiv Patel
was Tenali, Buwasaheb was Afzal Khan and Gulmai was Shivaji’s mother Jija
matha.
Gandhi will one day be perfect and he will have to take three more births.
General Dyer of Jalianwalabagh fame will be one of the members of his esoteric
circle.
Edward VIII has a past connection with Me and will join Me.
Jesus stationed himself in the Fourth Plane (of miracles), Zoroaster on the Sixth
Plane and Mohammed on the Seventh Plane.
Ramana Maharishi achieved God Realization.
Aurobindo Ghosh was on the Sixth Plane of Consciousness and at the time of his
dropping his body, I gave him God Realization.
Ramakrishna Paramahansa was a Perfect Master and I call him ‘The Heralder of
the Avataric Age’.
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Karam masi: you were Buddha’s aunt.
Gaimai: when I come back after 700 years you will be My mother and Karman
masi My father.
Eruch is more reliable. If ever I like the company of anyone it is that of Eruch.
Shakespeare is presently reincarnated in India and is now a Brahmin, taking a
leading part in politics, but one of the most sincere and selfless workers for the
country.
Rajaji is the best among the whole lot: sincere, clever, capable, sociable and
above all, old enough to face all situations, flexible to adapt himself to changing
circumstances not through weakness but cleverness. He is not obstinate or
rigid. He is the only man who can face Gandhi and tell him boldly what he feels.
Gokhale, Tilak and Phizroshah Mehta were the pillars of Indian politics.
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MY WISH FOR MY LOVERS
1. Do not shirk your responsibilities.
2. Attend faithfully to your worldly duties and keep always at the back of your
mind that all this is Baba’s.
3. When you feel happy think, ‘Baba wants me to be happy’. When you suffer
think, ‘Baba wants me to suffer’.
4. Be resigned to your situation and think honestly and sincerely that Baba has
placed you in the situation.
5. With the understanding that Baba is in everyone, try to help and serve others.
6. I say with My divine authority to each and all that whosoever takes My name
at the time of breathing his last comes to Me. So do not forget to remember
Me in your last moments. Unless you start remembering Me now on it will be
difficult to remember Me when your end approaches. Start now. Even if you
take My name only once a day, you will not forget Me in your dying moments.