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This Week
at the Avatar Meher Baba Center of So. California
M e h e r a b o d e
 Sunday, November 3:
Celebrating
Bhau Kalchuri A Day of Remembrance
and next week
Sunday, November 10:
David Miotke Sings
Francis Brabazon's
The East-West Gathering
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Board of Directors Announcement: Save the Date!
Meherabode's Board of Directors respectfully invites all voting Members to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California. Your attendance and participation are greatly appreciated.
Date: Sunday, November, 17, 2013
Time: 11:30 -- 1:30 am
Please note: Ballot packages are on their way (via US mail).
A nice lunch and refreshments will be provided.
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CELEBRATING BHAU KALCHURI
Virsingh Kalchuri -- known world-wide as Bhauji -- completed the work of his life of love and service to the God-Man Meher Baba a week ago today (October 23).
 Born in 1927, Bhau Kalchuri joined Meher Baba as a young disciple in the 1950s, and long served as Baba's night watchman. Meher Baba gave Bhau many literary projects, resulting in works such as Lord Meher (the most extensive biography of Meher Baba), The Nothing and the Everything (a unique work of storytelling metaphysics), and others.
Following Meher Baba's dropping of the body in 1969, and further following the subsequent, gradual passing away of most of Meher Baba's other Mandali (resident disciples), Bhauji was increasingly in demand as a guest speaker at Meher Baba centers everywhere -- including here in Los Angeles. He maintained a special relationship with our Center (which he referred to as "Meher's Abode" -- hence our Meherabode). In the end, Bhauji was the last living Mandali. His passing thus seems to represent the closing of one era of devotion to Meher Baba and the opening of another.
In recent decades, Bhauji was Meher Baba's chief world-wide emissary from Ahmednagar, regaling generations of Baba-lovers with incessant stories, poems, internet chats, and diverse remembrances of the Beloved. Today, we will hold Bhauji in collective remembrance in a day-long tribute of thanks, celebrating a life of ceaseless giving.
11:00 am coffee / tea / fellowship
11:30 am Prayers and Artis
11:45 am Videos of Bhauji 12:30 pm Persian Lunch 1:45 pm Music and readings 3:00 pm Sharing by one and all 5:00 pm Dhuni (outdoor sacred fire)
Jai Ho Bhauji!
Avatar Meher Baba ki Jai!
Participants are invited (if you wish) to bring a fave photo of Bhauji for an impromptu photo gallery on our Meherabode bulletin board.
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Songs from Francis Brabazon's poetic evocation
The East-West Gathering (1962)
performed live by special musical guest
David Miotke
together with excerpts from
The East-West Gathering
a film by Robert Fredericks
Among our favorite musicians, we are delighted to welcome David Miotke for a special musical performance.
David has been regaling Baba-lovers and music-lovers world-wide with his rich voice, lyrical compositions, and superb musicianship for many decades. David's exquisite musical interpretation of Francis Brabazon's prose-and-poetry narrative The East-West Gathering (among Francis' most remarkable, book-length meditations on Meher Baba) was released as a long-playing record back in the 1970s. Many selections from that work were recently included in Robert Fredericks' new, definitive documentary film The East-West Gathering, excerpts of which will be shown along with David's live musical performance.
Food for the ears and a feast for the heart! Not to be missed!
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More Southern California Meetings
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Mondays at 7 PM in South Bay (San Pedro) Call Glenn and Payam Russ: (310) 519-7776
Thursdays at 7 PM in Orange County (Aliso Viejo) - Meetings in Farsi
Call Reza and Susan Ebrahimzadeh: (949) 831-1047
Santa Barbara: Monthly Meetings
Call Donnalyn Karpeles: (805) 682-1877
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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 all one without a second, and that all divisions and conflict and hatred are but a shadow-play of their own ignorance.
Avatar Meher Baba
1962 East West Gathering, Excerpt from"My Children" |
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