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Dear Meher Center Family & Friends,
A joyous Jai Baba to you as we look forward to this holiday season.There are many activities planned at the Center for those who are nearby. Please check out the calendar to see all that is planned.
On December 22nd, we celebrate the birth of Mehera J. Irani, Meher Baba’s closest woman disciple, of whom He said: “Mehera loves Me as I should be loved.” Below is a passage from the book Mehera, where she lovingly talks about Baba singing.
“Baba was very fond of music, and as I said, His was a very beautiful and sweet voice. Sometimes Baba would sing in the early mornings, and so lovely was his voice that He could sing beautifully even before brushing his teeth and having tea.
“Early one morning, after we had quickly rolled up our bedding and put it aside, splashed our faces with cold water, and brushed our teeth, we were rushing to make tea for Baba. I was pumping the kerosene stove which is very noisy, when my mother said, ‘Listen! You can't hear because of the stove, but Baba is singing. How beautifully he is singing!’
“As we listened, we could hear Baba's voice coming nearer and nearer. He was singing a new song, not a qawali, but an ordinary song with a pretty tune. At first, we stayed in the middle of the room as we knew Baba would not like us to stare at him from the windows, but we could still see out. Baba's voice came still nearer, and then around the corner of the post office He came; and we saw Him. It was just at the crack of dawn, and the dawn light was on His lovely face. So beautiful He looked in His white sadra and His hair loose. And as He sang He danced so gracefully. It was just a glimpse for a few seconds, but the sight of Baba dancing and singing in the dawn light is something I shall never forget.
“As Baba turned towards the corner of the verandah, we rushed to the window to see more, but He had gone from our sight. But we did see Him for those few seconds, so slim and beautiful in the white sadra, dancing and singing spontaneously because He was happy.
Baba would often walk on the verandah of the post office singing qawali songs, which were His favorite kind, but He would never finish the whole song. Baba would just sing the three or four lines that he liked best in the song and sing those lines again and again.
This particular day Baba was walking back and forth on the verandah singing a few lines from a song, while we girls sat peeling the garlic. Baba came up to us and said, ‘You are listening to my singing, do you understand the meaning?’
It was a qawali song written in high Urdu, and I had only learned enough Urdu to talk to servants when I was a child.
‘No, Baba, we don't understand it at all,’ we replied. So, He explained it to us. Its meaning in English is: ‘If in the midst of enjoyment, you remember the Beloved, then that is love. At that time you must have your head on His feet.’”*
In Baba’s love and service,
Buz Connor,
For Meher Center board and staff
*Mehera, by Mehera J. Irani, pp. 67-68.
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