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Weekly Reflections No. 7 from Meher Baba Books
(Los Angeles, California)
Greetings from Los Angeles -- Dear Friends and Companions:

Happy holidays in Beloved Meher Baba. Sending you our warm greetings and wishing you a happy new year!

This weekly circular, a newborn, is 7 weeks old now! -- and already it is blinking its eyes, making sounds, moving its limbs, and breathing the breath of life. May Beloved Baba be pleased with it.

We are happy to offer these weekly mini-circulars in the form of words from Meher Baba to all of you. This week's Reflections focus on Divine Love.
 
We hope you enjoy these small occasions for reflecting on the beauty and power of Beloved Baba's words. Enjoy His presence. He is the only doer.

In His Everlasting Love,
Meher Baba Books
Mahoo
Meher Baba on Divine Love

 

Redemption of Humanity through Divine Love 

 

When it is recognized that there are no claims greater than the claims of the universal divine life which, without exception, includes everyone and everything, love will not only establish peace, harmony and happiness in social, national and international spheres, but it will shine in its own purity and beauty. Divine love is unassailable to the onslaughts of duality and is an expression of divinity itself. It is through divine love that the New Humanity will tune in with the divine plan. Divine love will not only introduce imperishable sweetness and infinite bliss into personal life, but it will also make possible an era of New Humanity. Through divine love the New Humanity will learn the art of co-operative and harmonious life; it will free itself from the tyranny of dead forms and release the creative life of spiritual wisdom; it will shed all illusions and get established in the Truth; it will enjoy peace and abiding happiness; it will be initiated in the life of Eternity.

Meher Baba

(Discourses, Sixth Edition for the World Wide Web [2004], Vol. 1, pp. 24-25)


One who loves, is the lover of the beloved. One who obeys is the beloved of the beloved. One who surrenders all -- body, mind and all else -- has no existence other than that of the beloved, who alone exists in him. Therefore greater than love is obedience, and greater than obedience is surrender. And yet, as words, all three can be summed up in one phrase -- love-divine.

 

Meher Baba

 

(Listen Humanity, Third Edition (1985), p. 17)

Copyright � 1957 Sufism Reoriented, Inc.
Copyright � 1982 Avatar Meher Baba Trust

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"There is No Power Greater than Love"

 

Those who have got the courage and the wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of his Grace. Only a God-realized Master can awaken this true Love in the human heart, by consuming, through the fire of his Grace, all the dross that prevents its release. Those who have got the courage and the wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of his Grace.

 

The Grace of the Master does come to those who deserve it; and when it comes, it en kindles in the human heart a Love Divine which not only enables the aspirant to become one with God, but also to be of infinite help to others who are also struggling with their own limitations. There is no power greater than Love.

 

Meher Baba

November 14, 1944, Nagpur

 

[from "The Dynamism of Love," a discourse given by Meher Baba for the Theosophical Society, Nagpur]

photo: Meher Baba in Nagpur (1937)




Love is a strange binding. It binds and unwinds. The more you bind yourself to the beloved, the greater the freedom (unwinding) you have. But such love is very rare.

In fact, love is an ocean of fire that you have to cross to meet the beloved. So love -- more love -- more and more love.

Meher Baba
9 February, 1937

[from Kitty Davy, Love Alone Prevails (2001), p. 154]



Just as a thirsty man in the desert under the hot sun values water more than a heap of pearls and diamonds placed before him, so also, a true lover of God wants him alone, and considers every other object as a trifle before him.

The real lover desires no name, fame or money, but his beloved. He who does not possess such an attribute is a man full of self-interest.

Meher Baba
April 25, 1924, Meherabad

[from Ramjoo Abdulla, Ramjoo's Diaries (1979), Ed. Ira Deitrick, p.318]
December 24th is when Upasni Maharaj, one of Meher Baba's Prefect Masters, dropped his body. On Oct. 17, 1941, Upasni Maharaj climbed out of the car driven by Meher Baba's disciple, Sarosh, and walked rapidly toward the hut where Baba was waiting to meet him. The place was Dahigaon, not far from Upasni's home base of Sakori and about a one and a half hour drive from Baba's ashram at Meherabad. Upasni had, at Baba's request, picked the place of their meeting. Baba had arrived first and sent Sarosh to pick Upasni up at Sakori. This was to be the last meeting of the Avatar and one of His Masters in this age.

Commenting on His meeting with Upasni, Baba told the Mandali who drove Him back to Meherabad:


I took his darshan. (Avatar or not, he was my Master!) He lifted me with both hands, embraced me heartily and wept like a child. We sat down, and he talked for half an hour about the war, my speaking, suffering, et cetera.

Then I motioned, "I must be going," and he said, "Wait for five minutes. We will not meet again. Now Merwan, you have all the work and powers of the great Sat Purushs [the five Perfect Masters]. They are all focused in you. I leave everything to you." And so saying, he folded his hands in reverence, and I felt moved. I presented Maharaj with a box of my lockets, which he surveyed with deep thought.

[from Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher, online version, pp. 2232-33]


By way of conclusion, we wish you a Happy New Year in Beloved Baba. See you all next week.

Jai Meher Baba!



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