Dear Meher Center Friends & Family,
Jai Baba and Happy New Year in Meher Baba’s love from Meher Center.
In thinking about the new year that lies ahead, I found this passage from the Family Letters, January, 1961. In it Mani, Baba’s sister, writes:
Dearest Family,
BABA-Greetings to you for the New Year.
1961—Another figure to remember to head one's letters with. Another step in the march of time nearer towards the manifestation of the Timeless One. Another little bend in the long winding road of our journey towards the unwinding of ourselves from the wheel of Karma. Another peg to hang new resolutions on, as well as renewed ones from the pile of last year's neglected or frayed promises made to oneself.
May the New Year's resolve of those who love Baba be to make no resolutions, for our one- and-only resolve worth resolving has already been made long ago: to hold on to His daaman throughout, till the very end! Let ours therefore be rather a prayer, that we never waver in that resolve, through calm or storm. And may our Ancient One, despite His withdrawing Himself into deeper Seclusion, hear that prayer ...
Baba received all the Christmas thoughts and love that poured into Meherazad. There was a Christmas lantern we put in His room, and its light seemed to reflect the presence of all the Baba-lovers everywhere — for every heart that burns in His Love is as a living Christmas lantern to the living Christ.
May our faith in Baba keep it shining the whole year through, in the steady flame of love and surrender!
Ever lovingly,
Mani*
In Baba’s love and service,
Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff
*Family Letters, pp. 88-91.
