MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Heart of Every Lover:
Weekly Offerings

November 19, 2021
Meher Baba with Gulmai K. Irani
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 want to let those who are planning to visit Meher Center over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays know that the Center is not planning to hold holiday gatherings as it normally does. We are planning no large gatherings at the Center until after the new year, and only then if things are significantly improving.
 
So, if you are planning to visit the Center for an overnight stay, anticipate that it will be a quiet time with less people contact than normal while on the Center. 

I recently came across this familiar quote:
 
The life in eternity knows no bondage, decay or sorrow. It is the everlasting and ever renewing self-affirmation of conscious, illimitable divinity. My mission is to help you inherit this hidden treasure of the Self.*

We look forward to seeing you at Meher Center soon.
 
In Baba’s love and service,
 
 
Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff

Center Program Note: We will hold an outdoor concert at the Center this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. 

*Listen Humanity, p. xiii
Lovers' Offerings
Family Letters #7
Read by Michelle McKeever
Audio 5:49

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.
"He speaks to us within our hearts"
Raj Khilnani grew up around Meher Baba and retired as a senior officer in the police department in Maharashtra. As a child he lived with his family at Khushru quarters under Baba's direction and the Khilnani family remained connected with Baba throughout their lives. Here, Raj reflects on how Baba helped him through the ups and downs of a highly competitive and challenging work life, the many "coincidences" that were Baba's guiding, invisible hands and His speaking to us internally. He ends with reading letters that Baba wrote to him and his parents.

Video, 1:17:28
Meher Center Meeting Place, January 10, 2010
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
"You loved Baba and He did the work"
In this frank talk, Donald Mahler shares his journey with Meher Baba. First learning about Baba through Margaret Craske while pursuing a career as a ballet dancer in the 1950’s, Donald met Baba twice at the Meher Center, and again at the East-West Gathering in 1962. But despite believing in Baba and trying to follow His orders, it was only after decades of hard-won lessons that Donald could feel the intimacy and love that were always there. 

Audio, 51:31
Washington, D.C., April 27, 1990
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California