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AVATAR MEHER BABA God is everywhere, but can you see Him in everything? Can you feel Him in everyone you meet? You certainly do not. So God has assumed the form of man to tell you and awaken you all to the fact that God is everywhere and in everyone and in everything. The God-Man. The Avatar. - Meher Baba: "To love Me is to love all. To love all is to suffer with their suffering and be happy in their happiness." ------------------------------------------------- FEBRUARY 25,1894 - JANUARY 31 1969 Meher Baba had a seven-year period of spiritual awakening with the five perfect master of the time: Hazrat Babajan, Upasni Maharaj, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Tajuddin Baba and Narayan Maharaj. In January 1922, Meher Baba was destined to leave Upasni Maharaj and Sakori and begin his Universal work. A few minutes before his departure, Upasni Maharaj called him into his hut and with folded hands proclaimed, “Merwan, you are Adi Shakti – the Primal Force! You are the Avatar – the direct descent of God!” Meher Baba leaves his ashram Manzil e Meem in Bombay in 1923 and moves to Ahmednagar. visits and establishes Meherabad in June 1923. In 1925, Meher Baba instructed that a permanent women's compound be built on the eastern side of lower Meherabad. Mehera and a few others began staying more permanently under Meher Baba’s direct daily supervision. Baba regarded Mehera as the purest soul and the one closest to him spiritually. By 1927, this phase marked the foundation of the women's ashram, and Meherabad became the first spiritual center where Baba lived with both male and female disciples in complete separation, under his strict spiritual guidance. Meher Baba made several trips to Europe and the United States between 1931 and 1936, where he gathered a close circle of Western followers. He selected Nasik as the place to create a temporary ashram to house his Western disciples, especially the women, about two miles outside Nasik. In early 1938, Baba relocated the women from Nasik to Bangalore, and later were brought back to Meherabad. Life at Upper Meherabad gradually transitioned to Meherazad between 1943 and 1944, with the final move to Meherazad completed in May 1944. ---------------------------------------- In 1925, Baba began a 44-year period of observed silence, during which he communicated first using an alphabet board, and by 1954, entirely through hand gestures, which his closest disciples would interpret. Upasni Maharaj would tell those who came for his darshan, “Go to Merwan! I have given over my charge and authority to him. Meher now holds my key.” -------------------------------- MEHER BABA: FLY TO PUNE: Ahilyanagar is a two hour drive from Pune. Meherabad is a 20 minute drive from Ahilyanagar. There is a train station. It is possible to hire a taxi in Pune to visit the Samadhi for darshan, a 2 hour drive. You can stay in Ahilyanagar (formerly Ahmadnagar) . The Samadhi on the hill is open for darshan to all: 6:30 AM to 8 PM. ---------------------------------------------------- Avatar Meher Baba
Mastery in Servitude Meher Baba’s Work with Masts, Lepers, the Poor. Meher Baba's work was not confined to words or teachings—it was lived through tireless, often hidden service to those most forgotten by society. He sought out masts—God-intoxicated souls who had become inwardly absorbed in divine consciousness and appeared outwardly disoriented. Baba would travel for days across remote villages and crowded cities to find them and perform what he called "inner work" to help their spiritual states. Many of these masts recognized Baba instantly as the Beloved they inwardly knew. He also gave personal care to lepers, bathing them, feeding them, washing their feet with his own hands. To the destitute and the diseased, Baba offered not just food and clothing, but an unspoken acknowledgment of their divine worth. His work was done with immense compassion.
Meher Baba bathing the masts and the lepers. DARSHANS When he held darshans—public gatherings where people could come into his presence, an intimate exchange of love. He embraced saints and sinners alike, often reminding people that God dwells equally in every heart. In his silence, people felt understood, uplifted, and transformed. All were expressions of the same One Reality—whether a wandering mast, a child in rags, or a pilgrim seeking darshan. His life was a living example of love in action—silent, inclusive, and beyond all creed.
MEHERA IRANI AND MEHER BABA WOMAN DISCIPLES WOMEN DISCIPLES Meher Baba started the 'New Life': It is endless, and will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving; and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies. The Ten Circles Of The AvatarMeher Baba travelled extensively He dictated two books: 'God Speaks' and 'The Discourses'.
MEHERABAD: MEHER BABA'S SAMADHI SAMADHI VISIT His tomb (Samadhi) is a place of pilgrimage. Meher Baba's taught that the goal of all beings was to gain consciousness of their own divinity, and to realize the absolute oneness of God. Meher Baba described the phenomenal world as illusory and that the Universe is imagination. God exists, and each soul is God passing through imagination in order to realize its own divinity. He advised how to attain God-realization, and thereby escape the wheel of birth and death. SAMADHI VISIT
The White Horse Avatar The Kalki Avatar: the incarnation who appears at the end of the Kali Yuga. This present time is known as the 'Kaliyuga' ( which started upon the death of Krishna). The sign or symbol of the Avatar of this 'Yuga' is the Avatar seated on a white horse. Kalki is described in the Puranas as the avatar who rejuvenates existence by ending the darkest and destructive period to remove adharma (unrighteousness) and ushering in the Satya Yuga, while riding a white horse with a fiery sword. Avatar means "descent", and refers to a descent of the divine into the material realm of human existence. Hari, Paramatma, Allah, Ahuramazd, God, Yezdan AVATAR MEHER BABA, KALKI AVATAR
" I am equally approachable to one and all, big and small, To saints who rise and sinners who fall, through all the various paths that give the divine call. I am approachable alike to saint whom I adore, And to sinner whom I am for, And equally through Sufism, Vedantism, Christianity, Or Zoroastrianism and Buddhism and other isms of any kind and also directly through no medium of 'isms' at all. " - Meher Baba Meher Baba passed January 31, 1969. Celebrated every year as Amartithi. SAMADHI VISIT • Meher Baba's Birthday is celibrated February 25 * Silence Day is observed July 10. The Dhuni Fire is lit the 12th of every month. Visit His Samadhi. SAMADHI VISIT RELEVANT WEBSITES ABOUT MEHER BABA:
HOW TO VISIT: Ahilyanagar is a two hour drive from Pune. Meherabad is a 20 minute drive from Ahilyanagar. There is a train station in Ahilyanagar. There are several hotels in Ahiyanagar with restaurants. There is a Pilgrim Retreat in Meherabad which requires reservations in advance. It is possible to hire a taxi in Pune to visit the Samdhi for darshan and return to Pune the same day (two hours each way). The Samadhi is open for darshan to all: 6:30 AM to 8 PM. Suggested proposal for the Samadhi Superstructure.. This New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one to live it. --------------------------------------------------- https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org . AVATAR MEHER BABA TRUST WEBSITE ------------------------------------------------------ |
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THE FOUR STATES OF RAMA EXPLAINED BY MEHER BABA: THE PARABRAHMA STATE: This is the second important state of God. In this state, all God's attributes exist. It is full of infinite bliss, infinite beauty, infinite love; it is the state of complete [divine] consciousness. It is devoid of the first state — God's unconscious state. And to say it is the Paramatma state would also not be correct. JIVATMA STATE : This is the third state of God, of you all sitting here — the drops of the same Infinite Ocean. SHIVATMA STATE : When the jivatma is merged in Paramatma, he becomes Shiva. You are all drops. Paramatma is the Ocean. When this jivatma bubble bursts and becomes one with the Ocean, it is Shivatma. In others words, it is the state either of the Perfect Master or a majzoob. This soul can never have a fall from his highest divine state. This is the state of the seventh plane [Brahma Bhuwan] and is called the Shiva state. But when the Shivatma regains gross consciousness of the world, he is called the Sadguru.
The Ever-Conscious Paramatma of this fourth state, who comes down on this gross plane age after age when maya is at its height, is called the Avatar. He is always the One, the same in whatever age and under whatever name he might have descended — Ram, Krishna or Buddha. https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org . AVATAR MEHER BABA TRUST WEBSITE This website is dedicated to Avatar Meher Baba. Articles and website designed and edited by elenagh@live.com. Elenas India stories: PERSONAL STORIES
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