MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Heart of Every Lover:
Weekly Offerings

October 22, 2021
ECPPA photo collection
"My center is the heart of every lover. 
Every lover with a heart that loves Baba is a center."

Meher Baba 
At Meher Center, 1956
Dear Meher Center Family and Friends,
 
Greetings from Meher Center. This past weekend, we held our first program at the Center since the pandemic began in March 2020. The event took place on a beautiful autumn afternoon at the gazebo near the playground.  Held on Saturday, October 16, it was a celebration of Meher Baba’s New Life, with speakers and singers and a very appreciative audience.

This Saturday, October 23, weather permitting, there will be an outside program at the gazebo at 2:30 p.m. Also, weather permitting, we are planning an additional program for next Saturday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m.  Given the limitations that COVID places upon having indoor programs, for now, we will be planning these outdoor gatherings from week to week.

A reminder that the Virtual Young Adult Sahavas will be held the weekend of November 5-7. Special guests will be Amrit Irani from Meherabad, India, and Jenny Keating from Sydney, Australia. Additionally, we will have a panel of Eastern and Western young people sharing about Meher Baba.
 
We look forward to seeing you at Meher Center soon.
 
In Baba’s love and service,
 
 
Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff
Lovers' Offerings
Family Letters #4
Read by Zo Newell
9:18

These are readings of a collection of letters written by Mani, Meher Baba’s sister, to the Western family of Baba lovers between 1956 and 1969.
"I could see Jesus in Baba's eyes"
Joyce Bird begins this talk with a brief description of how she came to Meher Baba—from an experience of Jesus in 1942 to meeting Him as Baba in London ten years later. She then dives into the extensive notes she took during the 1958 American Sahavas to share an “eyewitness account” of some of the powerful, humorous, unexpected, and divine moments that made up that remarkable week on the Center. 

Video, 1:02:30
Meher Center Meeting Place, May 9, 1998
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
"Service comes above all"
In the final part of this audio by Najoo Kotwal, Najoo continues to share the love, compassion and care that Baba showed towards each person in her family while individually catering to their worldly and spiritual needs. At the end, she answers some questions from pilgrims about the untimely and heart-wrenching death of her brother and sister-in-law in a car accident and how the family accepted the incident as Beloved Baba's will. This event changed the course of all their lives including Najoo's who took on the role of care-giver and mother to her nephew who was the sole survivor of the car accident.

Audio, 20:15
Meher Pilgrim Center, Meherabad, India
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California