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Dear Meher Center Family and Friends,
Greetings from the Center!
Seventy years ago today, on July 24, 1956, Meher Baba visited the Center for the second time. After arriving in New York, where Elizabeth Patterson met Him, Baba and his party traveled to Myrtle Beach and were greeted at the Briarcliffe Gate by Frank Eaton, Kitty Davy and several others.
In writing about that six-day visit, Kitty Davy shares one talk Baba gave at the Barn several days after He arrived:
While waiting for the TV crew, which was unavoidably detained, Baba talked to all at the Barn seated informally around Him in a circle. He said:
"I want you all to listen very carefully to what I say. It appears so simple, yet it is so very important for My lovers. To love Me is to lose yourself in Me and to find Me as your own Self is to leave all your pleasures and pains to Me. What does this mean?"
Some unanswered, "Very simple - just leave everything to Baba!"
"Everything!" Baba emphasized. "And remain happy! Leave your pleasures to Me - leave your pains to Me - and then you remain free! But it is a great thing, a difficult thing. Say you have three children and all three of them die in one stroke. Naturally, what can you say? You must not only say but feel - "I leave all this to Baba. It is His wish, it is His pleasure."
Baba then asked Eruch to read a couplet from Kabir that Baba Himself translated that morning. Eruch read:
"Nothing that I have belongs to me.
All that I have belongs to You.
What will I lose if I surrender to You
What belongs to You?"
Baba then continued, "That is what I want to tell My lovers: Your pains and pleasures - leave all to Me."*
In Baba's Love and Service,
Buz Connor,
For Meher Center board and staff
*Love Alone Prevails, by Kitty Davy, pp. 466-467
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