"...the Avatar unfailingly fulfills his incarnation by giving a spiritual push to his age.” ~Avatar Meher Baba
Meher Mount
Your Friday photo is in remembrance of Avatar Meher Baba’s automobile near Prague, Oklahoma, on May 24, 1952…
“…the personal disaster, for some years foretold by me, took place in the form of an automobile accident while crossing the American continent… It was necessary that it should happen in America. God willed it so,” Meher Baba said about His accident.
This photo of Meher Baba was taken in August 1952 in Switzerland when He was recovering from the accident in America. Meher Baba said the following about His universal suffering:
“In his own ways, the Avatar unfailingly fulfills his incarnation by giving a spiritual push to his age.”
“The Avatar does not take upon himself the karma of the world nor does he become bound by it.
But he takes upon himself the suffering of the world which is the result of its karma.
His suffering for the world is vicarious. It does not entail entanglement with the karma of the world.
But humanity finds its redemption from its karma through his vicarious sufferings, e.g., illness, humiliation, accidents and the like. In his own ways, the Avatar unfailingly fulfills his incarnation by giving a spiritual push to his age.”
~Avatar Meher Baba
Karma: The law of cause and effect. Fate. The natural and necessary happenings in one’s lifetime, preconditioned by one’s past lives.
Sources
Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 3191, accessed May 22, 2017. ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.
Meher Baba, Beams from Meher Baba on the Spiritual Panorama, An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook, June 2011, pg. 32, accessed May 4, 2026. ©1958 by Sufism Reoriented Inc., USA.
Photo: Avatar Meher Baba in Switzerland in August 1952, recuperating from His automobile accident in America. Courtesy of Meher Nazar Publications, Ahilyanagar, India.