The Struggle for Peace and Happiness
Meher Mount
As we look to the year ahead, the news is filled with conflict, suffering and uncertainty. On January 30, 1964, Avatar Meher Baba gave the following message for publication in the Hindi weekly periodical, Guide.
AVATAR MEHER BABA in Mandali Hall, part of the Meherazad, India, compound that was Meher Baba’s last residence. November 1964. Photo by Meelan. (Source: Meher Nazar Publications)
“Throughout the ages men have been deeply involved in the struggle for peace and happiness. It is this struggle that lands them into chaos and misery. If men were only to become conscious of the fact that peace and happiness are not to be fought for but to be sought for within oneself, they would abandon their fighting and be at peace with themselves and the world.
“I have come not to teach but to awaken — to awaken men to that peace and happiness which cannot be obtained through struggle; neither can it be bargained for, nor borrowed, nor bestowed, because it is inherent in all.”
Source
Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pp. 5061-5062, accessed December 22, 2023. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.