MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Heart of Every Lover:
Weekly Offerings

October 1, 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,

A loving Jai Baba from Meher Center. We are happy to announce that today we begin to welcome overnight retreat guests after what feels like an interminable nineteen-month hiatus! 

In honor of this special occasion, we thought you might enjoy seeing Elizabeth and Norina’s original invitation to the Center for Meher Baba’s first visit in 1952, which appears below.

Also, Baba said the following to one of the visitors at Meher Center in 1952: 

Everyone commits mistakes unless one is Perfect and One with God, but love for Baba wipes away the mistakes. We must remember that God is all Truth, all Beauty. And in our love for God, for Baba, we must be 100% honest. Purity, honesty and love; God wants these three. And you love Baba. So don't bother about anything.

Weaknesses will go; defects will go. Even if they linger on, love will one day consume them. In the Ocean of Love, everything disappears. However dirty one's mind be, the love one has will wipe it out completely. In you, you have a lake of love for Baba. Even if you were to wash your face—all dirt—every day in the lake of Love, the lake would remain clear. *

In Baba’s love and service,

Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff

*Glimpses of The Godman, p. 34
Lovers' Offerings
Family Letter #1
Read by Jamie Keehan
9:47
"It must be real"
Mollie Eve describes herself as a practical person who initially was very skeptical of Meher Baba when her husband became devoted to Him in the early 1950’s. However, as she slowly became involved in the British Baba group and met followers like Will and Mary Backett and William Donkin, Mollie started to feel that there was something more to Meher Baba than she had realized. Along with her daughter, Ann Eve (who shared her story last week), Mollie met Meher Baba in England in 1952 and 1956, and then at the East-West Gathering in India in 1962. In her self-described unsentimental way, she devoted the rest of her life to loving God. 

Video, 28:12
London, England, June 3, 1985
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
"He had cured Himself"
Dr. Ram Ginde was a renowned neurosurgeon from Bombay who became a lover of Baba through his role as a doctor to Baba and His Mandali. In these short audio clips he narrates the story of his first meeting and treatment of Baba in his capacity as a doctor; another interesting story about Baba placing a bet on him; his thoughts on living a life with God and realizing Him; and finally, though in relation to the drug problem, some profound words from Baba about the spiritual path.

Audio, 42:26
October 7, 1968
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California