MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Heart of Every Lover:

Weekly Offerings

April 7, 2023

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Dear Meher Center Family and Friends,

Greetings from Meher Center and Happy Easter to all. Please see our website for information about programs this weekend at the Center. There will not be the regular weekly 9:30 a.m. Arti in the Barn this Sunday morning. Instead, we will have an Easter Sunrise Gathering that morning at Dilruba, which will include prayers and Arti, just after the 6:51 a.m. sunrise. For those coming from the nearby community, the Gateway and Dilruba gates will both be open after 6 a.m. for visitors to sign in (at Dilruba you should sign the book in the front hallway). The program will not begin until shortly after the sunrise time, around 7:00 a.m. 

At Meher Center in 1952, Meher Baba said:

“What you have to understand is that God and loving God are not child's play. It is like drowning in an ocean of fire! Jesus was never serious about anything, except about God—whose incarnation he was. He was serious about himself and God, with whom he was one. Otherwise, he was so lighthearted! Jesus even got crucified for others with this lightness of heart. Why? Because he had no want at all. He did not want; he gave.

“So, the only thing God wants is not ceremonies, not yogas, not prayers; he wants love—the love that makes you forget yourself in Him. All 'isms' are the same. Love and become God, not by practice of ceremonies, but by dying for God. Baba has no creed at all. Societies, groups, mean nothing. Baba is above all these creeds, ceremonies and 'isms.' Everyone in India knows that I have no 'ism' at all and am not attached to any. I have reoriented Sufism, Vedanta, Buddhism, so that Truth in them is kept alive. The marrow should be taken in, the bones thrown off!”*

In His love and service,

Buz Connor

For Meher Center board and staff

*Lord Meher, Online Version, by Bhau Kalchuri, p. 3081 

Family Letter #62

Read by Lynn Leu

23:44

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.

Rustom and Sohrab Irani are Baba’s nephews, and were fortunate enough to grow up in Baba’s close circle. Baba was such an integral part of their childhood that, as they touch upon in this talk, they did nothing without first asking for Baba’s permission. In this hilarious and delightful recording, the twins regale us with tales such as impersonating a female American Baba lover, playing marbles with Baba on the day of His accident in Satara, and Baba’s opinion on their choice to grow mustaches. They also weave in several songs which they perform with enthusiasm.

Video, 1:18:13

Meher Center Meeting Place, August 31, 2011

From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives

This audio recording is a brief, luminous description of Darwin and Jeanne Shaw’s meeting with Baba at the Shelton Hotel during His visit to New York in 1934.

Audio, 3:41

Courtesy of Mandali Hall Talks

Correction from last week: Jangoo Sukhadwalla was not Mehera's nephew, but the husband of Gulnar, Baba's niece.

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