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July 7, 2007
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Jesus.
I wish to discuss Meher Baba, as requested by a church colleague.
On Earth, he had considerable development in Divine Love. It was
this that gave him that shining charisma that set him apart. But
as you well know, he was not God, as he thought he was.
He discovered his tragic mistake shortly after he became a spirit.
He also discovered the source of his radiance - the Divine Love.
He is now safely in the Celestial Heavens. But his erroneous belief
did retard his progress; it also stimulated him to seek further,
and he thus found the truth of the Divine pathway.
Many of his followers continue to worship him, however. They refuse
to believe the Truth, because they have not experienced the Divine
Love as he has.
Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani (February 25, 1894 –
January 31, 1969), was an Indian guru of Persian descent. Educated
at St. Vincent's High School in Pune, India, as well as Deccan College,
he led a normal school life, showing no particular inclination toward
spiritual matters. At the age of 19, a short contact with an old
Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan marked the beginning of his spiritual
awakening. Baba was hailed as "Parvardigar" (God as the
Almighty Sustainer) by the Indian fakir Sai Baba of Shirdi in 1915.
[1] He received help from three more spiritual masters, including
Upasni Maharaj, who he said revealed to him his spiritual identity
as "The Ancient One" in 1921.
Baba lived and traveled in company with a circle of close disciples
("mandali"), both men and women, from whom he demanded
absolute obedience. He and the mandali voluntarily assumed a life
of extreme simplicity. From 1925 to the end of his life, Baba remained
silent, communicating with an alphabet board or by gesture. Baba
spent long periods in seclusion, often fasting, but he would intersperse
these periods with wide-ranging travels, public gatherings, and
works of charity, including working with lepers, the poor, and the
mad. He gave many discourses, which have been collected by his followers.
In 1931 he made the first of many visits to the West. During these
travels, a number of western mandali joined him. In the 1940s, along
with selected mandali, he traveled incognito about India, in what
he called "The New Life." On February 10, 1954, Baba declared
that he was the Avatar (an incarnation of God). [2]
After two automobile accidents, one in the U.S.A. in 1952 and one
in India in 1956, his capacity to walk became seriously limited.
In 1962 many western followers were invited to meet his Indian mandali
in a series of meetings called The East-West Gathering. In 1966,
Baba addressed the spreading problem of drug misuse in the West,
discrediting its alleged spiritual benefits. After a year of being
completely confined to a wheelchair, Meher Baba died on January
31, 1969. Meher Baba's samadhi (tomb-shrine) in Meherabad (outside
Ahmednagar, India) has become a place of pilgrimage. (Source:
Wikipedia)
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