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Weekly Reflections No. 5 from Meher Baba Books
(Los Angeles, California)
 
Hello Friends/Companions:

The 5th week is on! Thank you Baba. It is so much fun reading and reflecting on Baba's words. Happy in His Love. We are happy to offer these new weekly mini-circulars in the form of words from Meher Baba to all of you.

Our aim is mainly to share and reflect on some passages from the treasury of divine knowledge, Meher Baba. Let us all keep Him more and more in our hearts, minds, and daily lives! This week is a "Grace of the Master" week. It is a pleasure to offer it to you in Beloved Baba's Love and divine remembrance.

We hope you enjoy these small occasions for reflecting on the beauty and majesty of Beloved Baba. He is everywhere and in everything. Enjoy His presence within the sweetness of His words!

Victory Unto Him.
Meher Baba Books.
M.

Grace of the Master 

Meher Baba

The Glance of Grace!

 

Referring to the audience, Baba remarked, "All of you are not up to the mark, and so my nazar does not fall on you! ... The Path is most difficult. You have to become like dust. Only then will you see Baba as he is within you. Only one, a rare one, sees Baba in this way! ... The lover tells his Beloved Master how indifferent he is to him, for when he bows down to him, the Master kicks his head!"

 

Mentioning himself, Baba said, "I was a drop when Babajan kissed me, but then I swallowed the whole Ocean! If you are lucky and my glance of grace falls on you, then you will also become the Ocean! The main thing is that my glance should fall on you."

~Meher Baba 

(1962, during the East-West Gathering in Pune [Lord Meher online, page 4895]) 


Editor's note: Meher Baba appears to draw on and allude to Hafiz's term Ahle Nazar ("the Nazar's Master'" or "the One Who Holds the Glance of Grace")


'You say you see Me in dreams. These dreams arise from your own impressions formed through your love and faith in Me. I have come into your midst to awaken you from the long, drawn out dream of illusion -- not to create more dreams for you.'
~Meher Baba 

'Just a glance from me can give you all you need -- can turn your vision inward. You will be sitting here without any outward change, but you will become "what you really are." You have to wait for that moment. That moment is near, and for that you have to love me wholeheartedly, otherwise you will miss it. If I knock at your door and you are asleep, I will go away. In Avataric periods, one does not necessarily have to make the inward journey by stages. If you have the Grace of the Avatar, He just takes you from where you are to where you should be, where God wants you to be.'
~Meher Baba 



'No amount of reading will give any one person God-realization! But once one gets it -- it comes suddenly.

 

God is love, infinite love, and this world is nothing. Yesterday is gone; it is nothing. The future is nothing, too. And when you get that realization, then everything goes; it no longer exists. One realizes it is all nothing, illusion, maya.

 

There are so many divisions, even though God is One. Why are there so many divisions? It is all because of illusion and our ignorance of it.'

~Meher Baba

(Lord Meher, Vol. 7, p. 4259 [online p. 4833])   


You Can Love God

 

Baba went on to say: 

  

"I am so full of humor that it makes it difficult even for Rishis, Munis and Saints to know me as I am. I am at every level and act according to the standards of that level. With a child I will be a child; with saints of the highest, I will be above; I appear glorious.

"It is my nature to be absolutely natural, even with Beloved God, who is one with me and I one with Him. If you understand this, it is absolutely easy. The solution is in your hand!

"God is Infinite Honesty, and unless we love Him honestly, we cannot know Him. He is beyond all understanding, but the heart full of love can understand the un-understandable. So just words, explanations, and readings will not help. All this means nothing; only if you love God, you become one with God. That is the only solution. And you can love God."

Malcolm then asked Baba if we love God by loving others. Baba said, "You can, only you don't know you are loving God. God loves Himself through us all."

 

As Only God Can Love by Darwin C. Shaw (p. 269)

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Our deepest gratitude flows out toward Meher Baba's youngest and, as it proved, his last living Mandali, his night watchman, during the crucial period of completing his universal work in the 1960s, his co-author of literary works, and his exemplary devotee and our friend, dearest Bhau Kalchuri, for having lingered with us for so long -- through prolonged travails and suffering -- and for sharing his life with us so fully. We will always remember Beloved Baba and our dear Bhauji with all gratitude, devotion, humility, and love.

Offering this Video to you in Bhau's memory.

Bhau Kalchuri -- Ghazals for Meher Baba
Bhau Kalchuri - Ghazals for Meher Baba




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