Meher Baba (1894–1969)
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Works by Meher Baba
The mastery of consciousness: An introduction and guide to practical mysticism and methods of spiritual development (Harper colophon books ; CN 371) (1977) 21 copies
Meher Baba on love 8 copies
Sparks from Meher Baba 5 copies
Universal Prayer c.2 4 copies
Meher Baba on the problem of sex & the sanctity of married life : with a warning on the means of birth control (1971) 4 copies
Creation and Its Causes c.1 4 copies
Sparks from Meher Baba c.1 4 copies
Listen, Humanity c.3 4 copies
The Narrow Lane c.3 2 copies
Life at Its Best c.1 2 copies
Life Is a Jest c.2 2 copies
Life is a Jest c.1 2 copies
Sahavas in the company of God 2 copies
Life is a jest 2 copies
Meher Baba Calling. c.1 2 copies
Meher Baba on Love c.1 2 copies
The highest of the high 1 copy
Echoes : a Meher Baba reader 1 copy
The face of God 1 copy
The Narrow Lane c.2 1 copy
Four Films of Meher Baba c.1 1 copy
Discourses Vol.5 c.2 1 copy
Discours Choisis c.1 1 copy
The Path of Love c.2 1 copy
Silent Revelations 1 copy
The Secret of Sleep 1 copy
Self-Discovery 1 copy
Meher Baba on Love c.2 1 copy
Discourses c.4 1 copy
The Master's Prayer c.1 1 copy
The Prayer of Repentance c.1 1 copy
Reading as Meditation c.1 1 copy
Listen, Humanity c.1 1 copy
Discourses Volume 5 c.1 1 copy
Sparks from Meher Baba. c.3 1 copy
Discourses Volume I c.1 1 copy
Discourses Volume II c.2 1 copy
Discourses Volume II c.1 1 copy
Meher Baba Calling c.2 1 copy
Divine Theme c.1 1 copy
The Face of God c.1 1 copy
Life at Its Best c.2 1 copy
Meher Baba's Call. c.1 1 copy
Discourses Vol. III. c.1 1 copy
The Narrow Lane. c.4 1 copy
Meher Baba Calling c.1 1 copy
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- Other names
- Irani, Merwan Sheriar
- Birthdate
- 1894-25-02
- Date of death
- 1969-31-01
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Spiritual Master
Avatar - Relationships
- Hazrat Babajan (teacher)
Thelen, Tim (video biographer) - Short biography
- Born on 25 February 1894, Meher Baba attained God-realization at the age of 19. He embarked on his mission as a Spiritual Master in the early 1920s. On 10 July 1925 he began his silence and did not speak again for the remainder of his physical lifetime. The decades that followed witnessed the establishment of centers at Meherabad and Meherazad (near Ahmednagar, India) and other places. He worked intensively with the poor, lepers, and with spiritually advanced souls known as masts. Meher Baba held many mass darshan programs. Toward the end of his life he remained in seclusion, for the most part, to complete his Universal Work. In 1954 Meher Baba declared that he is Avatar of the age. He dropped his physical form on 31 January 1969. - from the Avatar Meher Baba Trust website (http://www.ambppct.org/meherbaba/mehe...)
- Nationality
- India
- Places of residence
- Meherabad, Maharashtra State, India
- Burial location
- Meherabad, Maharashtra State, India
- Associated Place (for map)
- Maharashtra State, India
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This is a collection of this Guru's writings. Meher Baba writes from a multi-faith perspective - though heavily slanted toward Sufism and Hinduism. Interesting and uplifting - though many Westerners may find some of his teaching difficult to accept.
Most elegant book I have ever read. Not easy, but worth the effort. Explains creation both the why and wherefore. A book that might change your live. Click over to Amazon to read some excellent in depth reviews.
A guide to attaining union with the ONE and realizing the Supreme Consciousness. A text that is simple, yet complicated. I assume it must be read critically a number of times to fully appreciate its content.
God Speaks is a minutely detailed description of the journey of the soul from the time of its "creation" until it has completed its function in the evolution and involution of consciousness, and has returned to the Over-Soul from which it originated.
Meher Baba's metaphysical views are most notably described in "God Speaks". His cosmology incorporates concepts and terms from Vedanta, Sufism, and Christianity. Meher Baba upheld the concept of nonduality, the view that diverse creation, or show more duality, is an illusion and that the goal of life is conscious realization of the absolute Oneness of God inherent in all animate and inanimate beings and things. Meher Baba compares God's original state to an infinite, shoreless ocean which has only unconscious divinity — unaware of itself because there is nothing but itself. From this state, God had the "whim" to know Himself, and asked "Who am I?" In response to this question, creation came into existence. In this analogy, what was previously a still, shoreless Ocean now stirred, forming innumerable "drops" of itself or souls. Meher Baba often remarked "You will find all the answers to your questions in "God Speaks". Study the book thoroughly and absorb it."
About the Author:
Meher Baba (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age.
He led a normal childhood and showed no particular inclination toward spiritual matters. At the age of 19, however, a brief contact with the Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan triggered a seven-year process of spiritual transformation. Over the next months he contacted four additional spiritual figures whom, along with Babajan, he called "the five Perfect Masters". He spent seven years in spiritual training with one of the masters, Upasni Maharaj, before beginning his public work. The name Meher Baba means "Compassionate Father" and was given to him by his first followers.
From July 10, 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba maintained silence, and communicated by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. With his mandali ('circle' of disciples), he spent long periods in seclusion in which he often fasted. He would intersperse these periods with wide-ranging travels, public gatherings, and works of charity, including working with lepers, the poor, and the mentally ill.
In 1931, he made the first of many visits to the West, including to Australia, gathering many followers. Throughout most of the 1940s he worked with an enigmatic category of persons whom he said were advanced souls and for whom he used the term masts. Starting in 1949, along with selected mandali, he traveled incognito about India in what he called "The New Life." On February 10, 1954, Meher Baba declared that he was the Avatar (an incarnation of God).
After suffering as a passenger in two automobile accidents, one in the United States in 1952 and one in India in 1956, his capacity to walk became seriously limited. In 1962, he invited his western followers to India for a mass darshan called The East-West Gathering. Concerned by an increasing use of LSD and other Psychedelic drugs, in 1966 Meher Baba addressed their use and stated that they did not convey real benefits. Despite deteriorating health, he continued his "universal work," which included fasting, seclusion, and meditation, until his death on January 31, 1969. His samadhi (tomb-shrine) in Meherabad, India has become a place of international pilgrimage. show less
Meher Baba's metaphysical views are most notably described in "God Speaks". His cosmology incorporates concepts and terms from Vedanta, Sufism, and Christianity. Meher Baba upheld the concept of nonduality, the view that diverse creation, or show more duality, is an illusion and that the goal of life is conscious realization of the absolute Oneness of God inherent in all animate and inanimate beings and things. Meher Baba compares God's original state to an infinite, shoreless ocean which has only unconscious divinity — unaware of itself because there is nothing but itself. From this state, God had the "whim" to know Himself, and asked "Who am I?" In response to this question, creation came into existence. In this analogy, what was previously a still, shoreless Ocean now stirred, forming innumerable "drops" of itself or souls. Meher Baba often remarked "You will find all the answers to your questions in "God Speaks". Study the book thoroughly and absorb it."
About the Author:
Meher Baba (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), born Merwan Sheriar Irani, was an Indian mystic and spiritual master who declared publicly in 1954 that he was the Avatar of the age.
He led a normal childhood and showed no particular inclination toward spiritual matters. At the age of 19, however, a brief contact with the Muslim holy woman Hazrat Babajan triggered a seven-year process of spiritual transformation. Over the next months he contacted four additional spiritual figures whom, along with Babajan, he called "the five Perfect Masters". He spent seven years in spiritual training with one of the masters, Upasni Maharaj, before beginning his public work. The name Meher Baba means "Compassionate Father" and was given to him by his first followers.
From July 10, 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba maintained silence, and communicated by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. With his mandali ('circle' of disciples), he spent long periods in seclusion in which he often fasted. He would intersperse these periods with wide-ranging travels, public gatherings, and works of charity, including working with lepers, the poor, and the mentally ill.
In 1931, he made the first of many visits to the West, including to Australia, gathering many followers. Throughout most of the 1940s he worked with an enigmatic category of persons whom he said were advanced souls and for whom he used the term masts. Starting in 1949, along with selected mandali, he traveled incognito about India in what he called "The New Life." On February 10, 1954, Meher Baba declared that he was the Avatar (an incarnation of God).
After suffering as a passenger in two automobile accidents, one in the United States in 1952 and one in India in 1956, his capacity to walk became seriously limited. In 1962, he invited his western followers to India for a mass darshan called The East-West Gathering. Concerned by an increasing use of LSD and other Psychedelic drugs, in 1966 Meher Baba addressed their use and stated that they did not convey real benefits. Despite deteriorating health, he continued his "universal work," which included fasting, seclusion, and meditation, until his death on January 31, 1969. His samadhi (tomb-shrine) in Meherabad, India has become a place of international pilgrimage. show less
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