Thursday, February 27, 2014

How to Love God



To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
If, instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.
If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others, we are loving God.
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think ourselves more fortunate than many many others, we are loving God.
If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will, we are loving God.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to Love God, and find Him as our own self.
THE PATH OF LOVE, p. 109, ed. Filis Frederick
1986 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust

Monday, February 17, 2014

A Birthday Celebration, Sunday, February 23, 2014





At 7 PM on Sunday evening, February 23, 2014, there will be a gathering in Athens to celebrate Baba's 120th birthday. Cake, coffee and other celebratory beverages will be served. Please feel free to bring your guitar or musical instrument of choice, if you are so inclined.  For more information about the event (address, etc.) and to RSVP, please e-mail athensbabagroup@gmail.com. 




 

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Baba's "First Real Birthday" -- February 12, 1952

On February 12, 1952, We Celebrate Baba's "First Real Birthday" 

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From Bal Natu in GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN, pp. 395-396:

On February 6 [1952], Baba dictated a profound, matchless message which was issued as the first "Life Circular". It combined the characteristics of the three main phases of His Avataric mission — the Old Life, the New Life, and the LIFE. I quote below a relevant passage from this particular message, relating to the invocation made by Baba in January 31. He stated:
For these last four months, according to ordinary human standards, and by ways and means known to me, I have tried my utmost for the achievement of Manonash, and I can say in all truth that I feel satisfied with the work done. This satisfaction is due to the feeling I have, of having regained my 'Old Life Meher Baba state,' yet retaining my 'New Life ordinary state'. I have regained the Knowledge, Strength and Greatness that I had in the Old life, and retain the ignorance, weaknesses, and humility of the New Life. This union of the 'old and new life states' has given birth to LIFE: Life that is eternally old and new.
My efforts for Manonash have been positive and the result of Manonash will be positive. But the actual and concrete manifestation of this result, I leave entirely to the Divine Sanction; where, how, and when the result will be, I leave entirely to the Divine Decree.
And within a week the mandali had one of the most delightful surprises of their life with Baba. It was the celebration of Baba's "First Real Birthday" on February 12, 1952, at Meherazad in a very simple yet buoyant mood. By this time the partition had been taken down, and the four companions — Gustadjee, Baidul, Pendu, and Eruch — were allowed to greet and meet the rest of the men disciples in Baba's love. Kitty Davy who was staying with the women mandali at Meherazad wrote a short, graphic account of this festive occasion:
As Baba came over to our quarters at 5 a.m. on the morning of February 12th exactly to the minute, bells and gongs were rung, drums beaten and guns fired, and in the midst of all this tumult, the voices of the mandali rose clear and loud repeating the different names of God. The evening before, prayers were intoned and the dhuni (sacred fire) was lit and kept burning for twenty-four hours. Baba called this day, February 12, 1952, his "first real birthday", the beginning of the period called "Life", and He sent the following message by cable and otherwise to all His devotees:
GOD'S BLESSINGS AND MY LOVE TO YOU ALL ON THIS, MY FIRST REAL BIRTHDAY.
GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN, pp. 395-396
1979 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust





Meherwan Jessawala on Saying Baba's Name


Meherwan Jessawala on saying Baba's Name




Interview conducted by Diana Le Page (Bill Le Page seated next to Meherwan).