All five Perfect Masters play a direct or indirect role in bringing the Avatar into creation, veiled then revealing his God-consciousness and bringing him back down to function perfectly on all planes and on all levels of consciousness. It was through Babajan that Merwan attained infinite bliss; through Sai Baba that he attained infinite power; and through Upasni Maharaj that he attained infinite knowledge. Narayan Maharaj and Tajuddin Baba played direct roles in bringing him into creation also, but indirect roles in bringing him down after he was God-realized. Lord Meher Online.page 242.
Upasni Maharaj played the most direct role: .. It was during his seven-year contact with Upasni Maharaj that Merwan fully regained his "lost" individual human consciousness while simultaneously being God-conscious. In January 1922. Meher Baba was destined to leave Upasni Maharaj and Sakori and begin his Universal work. Lord Meher Online.
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!”
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"Selfless service is service without the least tinge of ego. It is done not because one must do it, or because one expects a reward, but because one loves. .” -Meher Baba
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"If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.” Meher Baba
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Meher Baba leaves his ashram Manzil e Meem in Bombay in 1923 and moves to Ahmednagar, visits and establishes Meherabad in June 1923.
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Meherabad: Establishment of the Free Medical Dispensary 1925 provided basic treatment and medicines to villagers who otherwise had little or no access to healthcare. Meher Baba founded several schools as part of his early work there. Beginning in 1925–1926, these included primary schools for children from nearby villages and residential schooling for boys. Instruction was provided free of charge and emphasized basic literacy alongside moral discipline and a spirit of service. Demonstrating that spiritual life must be grounded in the upliftment of the poor and uneducated. These schools were gradually closed..
Recollections of the Prem Ashram appear in the book "The Boys: Prem Ashram Days with Meher Baba.”
Today there is an active Meher English School at Meherabad, operated under the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust. The school provides English medium education for children from Meherabad and surrounding villages. While separate in time from the schools Meher Baba founded in the 1920s, it continues the same underlying purpose of offering education as a form of service, particularly for families with limited access to schooling. ... *all above, lord Meher Online.
MERWAN
Meher Baba and his men disciples travelled extensively
“God, Who is in everything and in everyone, is deaf to formal rituals, ceremonies, prayers in mosques, churches and temples. But he hears the voice of the heart. When you help others, God knows instantly and is pleased. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.” ...( Lord Meher pg. 4008)
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Mehera Irani and Meher Baba
When Mehera was eleven, a school friend had taken Mehera to meet Babajan, saying that the ancient woman would grant any wish she asked. Babajan inquired of Mehera, "What do you want, my daughter?" Mehera spontaneously replied, "I wish I had a horse!"
Babajan gazed upward into the sky and muttered, "A beautiful one ... All the world will look at him ... All the world will love him." Babajan's words were usually enigmatic, and Mehera could not understand what she meant. She forgot all about it, but a few months later, to her amazement her mother suddenly bought her a beautiful white horse. *Lord Meher online.
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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. *Lord Meher online.
Meher Baba and Mehera 'Cannes'. artist: Ana von Hofmann
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 Meherabad.
Blue Bus Tours with the Women Mandali (1938–1941)
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Meher Baba took a series of journeys across India known as the Blue Bus Tours. Baba and a small group of women mandali. First to Bangalore and then they traveled extensively to remote villages, holy sites and sacred mountains, including places like Mount Abu, Rishikesh, and Tirupati. Baba often contacted masts in various locations. The women mandali underwent rigorous spiritual training during this time, living under strict discipline and complete obedience to Baba’s instructions. The Blue Bus phase came to a close by early 1941.
Life at Upper Meherabad gradually transitioned to Meherazad between 1943 and 1944, with the final move to Meherazad completed in May 1944.
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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.”
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MANONASH SECLUSIONS
On Monday morning 9 August 1951, arrangements were made with Baba in connection with the four months of Manonash from 16 October to 16 February 1952.
After Meher Baba entered the Hyderabad cave and began what he later described as Manonash (the annihilation of the mind), his inner work continued through a series of prolonged seclusions and semi-seclusions at several locations over roughly nine years. "All rites, rituals and ceremonies of all religions of the world are hereby consumed in flames.
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MANONASH
Manonash is real samadhi [bliss] for the mind. Mind is uprooted and then its death occurs and the ego immediately feels: "I am everything, and have no concern with the body." At that moment, either the shock is too strong and the body falls, or the momentum keeps the body for some time, and then it falls, as in the case of the majzoobs.
Real Ego is the Goal. Some who reach the Manonash stage and have to perform certain duties continue to remain in their body with an impressionless mind to help others in seeing themselves in everyone. .Lord Meher online.
