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Rare photo of Meher Baba in Sakkara, Egypt 1932 - Photo: Chris Ott


If I am the Highest of the High, my Will is Law, my Wish governs the Law, and my Love sustains the Universe. Whatever your apparent calamities and transient sufferings, they are but the outcome of my Love for the ultimate good.

~ THE HIGHEST OF THE HIGH, Meher Baba Dhera Dun, India, September 7, 1953


Weekly Reflections No. 39
from Meher Baba Books
(Los Angeles, California)
Aug,7th, 2015 

Hello Dear Companions:

Greetings from Los Angeles, California, once again. Happy summer and winter to all of you dear friends around the Globe. (Winter for the Ausralians, that is.)

Time for us to meet again on Fridays, for our weekly appointment with Meher Baba -- this time to remember Him for His matchless divinity once again. The theme for this week is Meher Baba's divinity (part two). We are getting together to have a good time with His words and Love.
 
Meher Baba's first world tour (April to August, 1932) included visits to Cairo, Venice and Assisi, where Baba secluded Himself for 20 hours of work in a cave associated with St. Francis, planning the spiritual destiny of the world for the next 2,000 years. Year's end seaw Baba in Milan, Paris, London, Egypt and Sri Lanka. On August 6th and 7th of 1932 Meher Baba spent time in a cave used by St, Francis, on Mt. Subasio in Italy. Meher Baba said, "If you have the love for Me that Saint Francis had for Jesus, then not only will you realize Me but you will please Me."

St.Francis' cave, near Assisi, Italy
(Artwork: "Francis' Cave" by Cherie Plumlee)

Baba wished to stay in seclusion for twenty-four hours somewhere in Italy and chose Assisi for the purpose because it was the homeland of Saint Francis. Baba sent Herbert there on August 1st in search of a cave for the seclusion. (Lord Meher Vol. 5, p. 1688.)  

What Meher Baba did for the sake of humanity is so unfathomable. we just have faith that everything happens according to His will.
 

Two days ago we released a new issue of Meherabode Gazette, which is rich and deep in content. We thought it may be a good idea not to present so much material in Weekly Reflections No. 39, as we'd like to offer ample time to our readers to catch up with reading and inhaling Baba's divinity via the Gazette. Here  is a Link to Meherabode Gazette, Issue No. 6.
 

In recent circulars we have been reflecting on the topic of "Women In the West and their Roles". Next week, we will return to this topic and cover the last part of those articles at that time.

 
We hope you enjoy these small occasions for reflecting on the divinity of Beloved Baba's words and life. You may email us at:
with any questions and/or requests. Keep Happy in His Love.

In His Love and Service,
Mahoo S. Ghorbani for Meher Baba Books                      
 
Meher Baba's Divinity (Part 2) 
 


 "You Are Not Responsible" 

 

On 10 December, Baba explained about the work of the Perfect Masters:

 

Good and bad thoughts, feelings, words and actions are all due to the working of the mind. If the mind vanishes, one realizes the highest Self.

 

Just as they are the givers of light, Sadgurus are also the givers of thoughts. Not only can they predict certain actions, but they can tell what will happen years into the future, even before it is created in the mind of an individual - for they are one with the Universal Mind which gives light, thoughts and everything.  

 

Hence, they not only predict, but they predestine, or actually get things done according to their will or wish, which becomes the Divine Will.

 

Someone inquired, "So if we commit sins, we are not really responsible for them?"

 

Baba replied, "Truly speaking, you are not responsible. Yet, for the sake of humility, you have to admit your responsibility, and therefore experience both good and bad, which eventually leads to Perfection."

 

 Lord Meher online, pp. 1124-1125 


  



THE HIGHEST OF THE HIGH
Meher Baba 

Consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, each and every creature, each and every human being - in one form or the other - strives to assert individuality. But when eventually man consciously experiences that he is Infinite, Eternal and Indivisible, then he is fully conscious of his individuality as God, and as such experiences Infinite Knowledge, Infinite Power and Infinite Bliss. Thus Man becomes God, and is recognized as a Perfect Master, Sadguru, or Qutub. To worship this Man is to worship God.

When God manifests on earth in the form of man and reveals His Divinity to mankind, He is recognized as the Avatar - the Messiah - the Prophet. Thus God becomes Man.

 

And so Infinite God, age after age, throughout all cycles, wills through His Infinite Mercy to effect His presence amidst mankind by stooping down to human level in the human form, but His physical presence amidst mankind not being apprehended, He is looked upon as an ordinary man of the world. When He asserts, however, His Divinity on earth by proclaiming Himself the Avatar of the Age, He is worshipped by some who accept Him as God; and glorified by a few who know him as God on Earth. But it invariably falls to the lot of the rest of humanity to condemn Him, while He is physically in their midst.

 

Thus it is that God as man, proclaiming Himself as the Avatar, suffers Himself to be persecuted and tortured, to be humiliated and condemned by humanity for whose sake His Infinite Love has made him stoop so low, in order that humanity, by its very act of condemning God's manifestation in the form of Avatar should, however, indirectly, assert the existence of God in His Infinite Eternal state.

 

~ Meher Baba Dhera Dun, India, September 7, 1953, Zoroaster's birthday

GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN, Vol. 4, pp. 105-110   

 

Meher Baba in Meher spiritual center, Myrtle Beach, SC, 1956
 

~ The Final Account ~
 
When the goal of life is attained, one achieves the reparation of all wrongs, the healing of all wounds, the righting of all failures, the sweetening of all sufferings, the relaxation of all striving, the harmonizing of all strife, the unraveling of all enigmas, and the real and full meaning of all life-past, present and future.
Meher Baba, Life At Its Best (1957), p. 59 



 

~ Religion ~  

 

Though religion has come into existence to liberate man from all narrowness, it can itself become a cage when not understood properly. All the world religions proclaim the same eternal and universal Truth; yet human weakness has a tendency to carve out some limiting, narrow loyalty which closes its gates upon the shoreless and unbounded ocean of love or divinity. It is not the essentials of religions, but addiction merely to their outer forms, which has tended to divide man from man, thus thwarting the very purpose of the great founders of the world religions.

 

I invite man to break through all of his self-created prisons, and taste of the unlimited life which I bring. I ask him to love divinely, fearlessly and limitlessly and to rise above the limited self of the separative ego-mind. I come to impart to groping humanity the universal Truth which transcends sectarian divisions and dogmatic formulations.

 

Through ages of darkness and suffering mankind awaits me and my Truth. I and the Truth which I bring are inseparable, one from the other. I am one with the Truth. May you all, too, break through the numberless cages and realize that you are one with the limitless Truth of divine life. The divine Beloved is always with you, in you and around you. Know that you are not separate from Him.

 

-Life At Its Best, p61

 

 

 


~ GOD ~

"Once Meher Baba asked us to define God. We made various attempts, but Baba was not satisfied. He said when the question 'What is God?' is asked, the answer is 'What is not God?' He then continued,

'Age after age, from time immemorial, you have been TRYING to find God, but you do not do so. Only one in tens of millions somehow or other realises God. But why do so many sincerely, wholehearted ly strive to find him, and so few do so? If God exists, and he does, then why cannot we find him?'

"Baba answered his own question.

'It is foolishness on the part of man seeking to find him. How can anybody find something which is never lost? God eternally is. Stop your search to find him, lose yourself, and you will realise him.'

"That is what Baba taught us: no sooner do you lose yourself than you realise God. Not by search, but by effacing ourselves. Not by asserting ourselves, that we are the ones searching for God, postively asserting ourselves, but by losing ourselves in his love."

                                                                     Eruch Jessawala, Is That So? (1985), p. 23




~ Meher Baba on Mt. Diablo ~

   

     

 
Cherie Plumlee narrates:
 
The ridge of the mountain where I first saw his face in the late 70s had become overgrown with many more trees and bushes since I moved here. His face is becoming more and more obscure, so one day I had the whim to take out [digitally] everything that wasn't a part of his face that I see.
 
Even now all I can see [when looking at the mountain] is his "fish shaped eye", a slash for his eyebrows and the curve of his cheek. The area in the shadow where I used to see an indentation that appeared to look like an eye, balanced with the eye on the sun side, is no longer there at all. Perhaps as the summer fires come and go maybe his face will again become more clear.

 


 

 

-- Names Of Love --

A musical meditation of the Names of God throughout history, tradition and culture, with an emphasis on Meher Baba's 7 names of God.
Music by Jim Meyer. Video by Robert Fredericks 

 

 

 

  


 

   

Your ever loving Presence

Thank you dear Baba
for giving us this day
to live and to love and remember
Your ever loving Presence

 

and thank you dear Baba
for giving us life and breath
to sing and to dance and rejoice in
Your ever loving Presence

 

and thank you dear Baba
for giving us each other
in whom we can learn to see and feel
Your ever loving Presence

 

and thank you dearest Baba
for giving us Your SELF
who came so all the world may feel
God's all-pervading
never fading
all-consuming Essence

 

 

Michael Da Costa
  

     

 

    


An Absolute Baba Treat - The Most Rare Film Footage

  
Meher Baba in 1956 at the Meher Spiritual Center

Published on July 14, 2015 

A film of Meher Baba's visit to Meher Spiritual Center in 1956. First in slow motion,  then at actual speed. This a accompanied by a medley of Baba rounds sung by Mischa Rutenberg. 

Music copyright © 2015 by Sufism Reoriented


 


 

Time to say good bye. Keep Baba with you at all times. He alone exists. 

   
   


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