MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Heart of Every Lover:
Weekly Offerings

April 16, 2021
ECPP 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 Friends & Family,
 
Jai Baba to you and your families. Meher Center is at its spring-time loveliest just now. It seems like everything is in glorious bloom eager to express the divine beauty of His home–where His love is always blossoming. Many day visitors have been exploring the pathways and gardens, especially the garden compound at Meher Baba’s house, which is awash in the pastel colors of the season. Hopefully, we will see some of you here in the next several weeks.

Baba said: “The truth of one's own perception and realization is the only road by which wholeness may be restored to the inner psychic being. In no other way can man obtain release from the chains that tie the limited ego-mind to the colossal cosmic illusion which hides from him the perennial spring of the Divinity within.”  

In Baba’s love and service,
 
 
Buz Connor
For Meher Center board and staff

*Life At Its Best, by Meher Baba, p.26
Lovers’ Offerings
Darryl Smith
Music
7:05
Judi Schoeck
Music
7:04
"From here to here"
Robert Dreyfuss first heard Baba's name in 1965. With his friend Rick Chapman, Robert saw a Baba quote on the door of Alan Cohen's office at Harvard. Through Alan he learned who Baba was. Here, he narrates the eventful story of hitchhiking over land to India, his meeting with Baba in Meherazad, and Baba's instruction to him: "Tell those that are [taking drugs], that if drugs could make one realize God, then God is not worthy of being God." By Baba's express wish, Allan Cohen, Robert Dreyfus and Rick Chapman became the three principle spokespersons to spread Baba's message about drugs in the West.

Video, 1:01:09 
Meher Center Meeting Place, April 3, 1996
From the Meher Spiritual Center, Inc. Archives
"Baba was very kind to me and to my father"
In this talk given to a group in Washington, D.C., Digambar Gadekar describes his family’s rich and loving history with Meher Baba. Digambar’s father Ramchandra first met Baba in 1924, when He was still speaking. Ramchandra had intended to visit Baba to ask that He cure a medical condition— but when faced with Baba’s love and presence, he asked for God instead! Thus began a multi-decade relationship between Meher Baba and the Gadekar family, from Baba distributing sweets at Digambar’s parents’ wedding, to His arriving unexpectedly at the family house for meals, to His becoming young Digambar’s most beloved playmate. 

Audio, 44:31
Washington, D.C., November 22, 1982
Courtesy of the Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California