"The inaudible sound is from heart to heart..."

Your Friday photo is in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Avatar Meher Baba’s silence on July 10th…

“Those who have been in his presence know that Baba communicates through his silence.

What proceeds from him is beyond words, does not need words, could not be contained in them.

The inaudible sound is from heart to heart: silence that penetrates mind and heart.”

— C.B. Purdom, The God-Man

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The God-Man, by C.B. Purdom, is the first authoritative biography of Avatar Meher Baba. It includes Purdom's personal recollections and messages he took down as they were being conveyed by Meher Baba, along with selections from diaries and memories of other witnesses present.

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Why Meher Baba Observed Silence — FREE eBook

Why did Avatar Meher Baba observe silence for 44 years? Was there a spiritual benefit? What is the deeper meaning of His silence?

Why do Meher Baba’s followers observe Silence Day on July 10th every year?

This eBook provides perspectives on Meher Baba’s silence. It’s a collection of stories about Meher Baba’s silence including comments by Him and His close disciples.

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Sources

• C.B. Purdom, The God-Man: The Life, Journey and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of his Silence and Spiritual Teaching, Second Edition, second printing with corrections (2010), Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook, June 2011, pg. 410. ©1964 C.B. Purdom, ©Meher Spiritual Center, Inc.

• Photo: Avatar Meher Baba, Meherabad, India, 1954 by Darwin Shaw. Courtesy of Meher Nazar Publications.

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"You have asked for and been given enough words..." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of the 100th Anniversary of Avatar Meher Baba’s silence on July 10th…

In this photo of Meher Baba in India, 1949, He is using the alphabet board to communicate. The photographer is Beheram Sheriar Irani, one of Meher Baba’s brothers; courtesy Meher Nazar Publications.

“You have asked for and been given enough words – it is now time to live them.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Meher Baba explained about His silence:

“Man’s inability to live God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged wars in his name.

“Instead of living the humility, purity, and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed, and violence. 

“Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form, I observe silence.

“You have asked for and been given enough words – it is now time to live them.”

~Avatar Meher Baba

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“Why Meher Baba Observed Silence” — FREE eBook

Why did Avatar Meher Baba observe silence for 44 years? Was there a spiritual benefit? What is the deeper meaning of His silence?

Why do Meher Baba’s followers observe Silence Day on July 10th every year?

This eBook provides perspectives on Meher Baba’s silence. It’s a collection of stories about Meher Baba’s silence including comments by Him and His close disciples.

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Source

• Avatar Meher Baba, “The Universal Message,” ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.

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"To bring you love is but to offer you your own."

Your Friday photo…

Meher Mount was given archival, out-of-print issues of The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba to share with His followers and visitors to Meher Mount.

The poem, “Your Eyes” by Sam Ervin, Meher Mount’s board president, was published in The Awakener issue pictured below in 1972.

There are free copies of this issue and others available on request.

“To bring you love is but to offer you
your own.
To worship is but yielding fruit
you’ve sown.”

— Sam Ervin, Board President

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I’ve searched everywhere in faces
for eyes
that meeting mine engender
no surprise,
but joy and sorrow and a wish;
a longing that is flame,
consuming all that isn’t,
illumining your Name.
To bring you love is but to offer you
your own.
To worship is but yielding fruit
you’ve sown.

Your eyes, my love, are promises
of kisses
no mortal man can know.
Do I dare? Do I dare
to turn around in me
and set one trembling foot upon the path
known also as abyss
and face the windswept desolation
of my heart?
And could I think to win
where gain is loss?

Your eyes, my love, are portals
to unfathomed night
where purity in silence lies;
where light, one piercing ray
may turn my inner night
to brightest day.

~Sam Ervin, The Awakener, Volume XIV, No. 1, 1972

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The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba

The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba was published from 1953-1986.

It was produced by Filis Frederick with the direct approval of Meher Baba. The Awakener was dedicated to spreading Meher Baba’s message of Love and Truth.

There are a few remaining copies of the original issues available to you for free.

These journals contain messages, discourses and pearls of wisdom given by Meher Baba. In addition, there are fascinating first-hand stories told by many of His closer followers from all over the world.

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More Information

• The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba, Meher Mount Story Blog Post.

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"I have been waiting all these years for you to come."

Your Friday photo is in remembrance of Avatar Meher Baba’s automobile accident in Prague, Oklahoma…

Meher Baba said of the injuries He had incurred on May 24, 1952, “It was necessary that it should happen in America. God willed it so.

“America forms the best foundation for the spiritual upheaval I will bring about in the near future. America has tremendous energy, but most of its energy is misdirected. I intend to divert it into spiritual and creative channels,” He said.

Meher Baba and His mandali (close disciples) were traveling by car from the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Meher Mount in Ojai, California, for a planned nine-day stay.

There are no photos related to the accident. This photo taken by Lud Dimpfl in 1956 is of the guesthouse at Meher Mount (right) where Meher Baba would have stayed.

“I have been waiting all these years for you come.”

— Agnes Baron to Avatar Meher Baba

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Prior to the trip, Agnes Baron met with Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach to discuss the planned nine-day stay in detail.

“Now do not go to any trouble,” Meher Baba told her. “I can sleep under the trees or on the floor.”

“Trouble!” Agnes replied, “I’ve just been waiting all these years for you to come. Everything has been painted and scrubbed.”

“Do not go to any trouble," Meher Baba repeated.

Meher Baba instructed five of the men mandali — Adi K. Irani, Dr. William Donkin, Gustadji Hansotia, Meherjee Kakaria, and Vinayak Nilkantha 'Nilu" Godse — to leave a day early for Meher Mount.

They were to make sure the proper arrangements were made at Meher Mount for for Meher Baba and the women mandali.

They arrived at Meher Mount on May 23, exhausted, as they had been told to drive as fast as possible. They were having tea the following morning when they learned about Meher Baba’s automobile accident.

Dr. Donkin flew back immediately, and the others drove back across the county.

“There was nothing but tears in our eyes and bleeding in our heart,” said Adi K. Irani.

“This was God’s will, and it will result in benefit to the whole world,” Meher Baba said. He said on other occasions that it would be necessary in His incarnation as Avatar to undergo this Self-sacrifice.

All the passengers in both automobiles survived, despite some severe injuries.

Four years later in 1956, Meher Baba returned to America. Upon this visit, Meher Baba at last fulfilled His intention of coming to Meher Mount. 

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Sources

• Wayne Myers, “…the personal disaster, for some some years foretold by Me took place…”, Meher Mount Story Blog, published May 23, 2017, accessed online April 21, 2024.

• Wayne Myers, Agnes Baron Meets Meher Baba for the First Time, Meher Mount Story Blog, published May 4, 2020, accessed online April 21, 2024.

• “Meher Baba’s Accident in America,” Avatar Meher Baba Heartland Center, accessed online, May 21, 2025.

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"Let me tell you this fact: There is nothing to worry about..." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo…

The following from Avatar Meher Baba, suggested by visitor Erin Sommerville, reminds us of Meher Baba’s central message which is to love God. The photo from Juan Mendez at Meher Mount captures the everyday beauty in our lives that brings us joy.

“Let Me tell you this fact: There is nothing to worry about, nothing to be disheartened about.

“We are all, each of us, meant to be happy.

“God, Who is within us all, is to be experienced as infinite happiness, and it can be done only through love for Him.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Source

You and I: A Personal Selection of the Words of Avatar Meher Baba, complied by Rick M. Chapman, pg. 149. (Berkeley, CA: The White Horse Publishing Company, © 2019) Quotes of Meher Baba are copyrighted by the ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.

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"The rain falls on both rocks and soil." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo…

When it finally rained this winter in February, Meher Mount caretaker Ray Johnston captured the moment in this photo. Volunteer and board member Agnes Montano suggested the following quote from Avatar Meher Baba.

“The rain falls on both rocks and the soil.

But the water flows away down the rock, while the earth soaks it up. The rock does not derive any benefit from the rain, while the soil does.

Although the rain falls equally on both, only the soil takes advantage of it.

Similarly, my mercy and grace are equally on all.

But only those on the plain deserve it, while those who go about as if they are on top of a high mountain do not benefit by it!”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Source

Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 1939, accessed February 19, 2025. ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

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"If God came not as man..."

Your Friday photo is in honor of Avatar Meher Baba’s upcoming birthday on Tuesday, February 25…

Meher Baba declared that God incarnates in human form every 700 to 1,400 years.

Each incarnation is referred to as the Avatar. Incarnations of the Avatar include Meher Baba, Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Rama, and Zoroaster.

“The Avatar is always One and the Same, because God is always One and the Same, the Eternal, Indivisible, Infinite One…the Highest of the High,” Meher Baba explained.

He said, “I am equally approachable to one and all, big and small, to saints who rise and sinners who fall, through all the various paths that give the Divine Call… and also directly through no medium or ‘ism’ at all.”

“If God came not as man, 
How could we really know  
That we could love Him so?”

— Malcolm Schloss

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The poem “First and Foremost” is the opening poem in Ways to Attain the Supreme Reality, a collection of poetry published in 1952 at Avatar Meher Baba’s directive.

FIRST  AND  FOREMOST 

IF THE SUN did not shine, 
To whom would the flower turn,  
How would the mango grow? 

If the sea were not spread,
To what would the rain descend,
Whither the river flow? 

If the earth did not spin, 
How would the light return,  
Where would the darkness go? 

If the air were not rare,
How would the breathing flow,
Where would the spirit go? 

If God came not as man, 
How could we really know  
That we could love Him so?

 ~Malcolm Schloss

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You can also listen to an excerpt of this poem sung by Jim Meyer by clicking here and then on “First and Foremost.” The poetry from Ways to Attain the Supreme Reality was set to music by Jim Meyer and Bob Brown in the CD of the same name published in 1999. The entire book of poems is recorded in order.

Malcolm B. Schloss (1895-1954) was a follower of Avatar Meher Baba. He was married to Jean Adriel, a co-founder of Meher Mount.

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Source

Ways to Attain the Supreme Reality (eBook) by Shri Meher Baba with Interpretations in Verse by Malcolm Schloss, pg. 15. (c)2020 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India. Used with permission.

Photograph: Avatar Meher Baba at the Namada River, Madha Pradesh, India, in December 1938. Photo by Rano Gayley. Courtesy of Meher Nazar Publications, Inc., Ahmednagar, India.

The CD Ways to Attain the Supreme Reality is available from Sheriar Books (Myrtle Beach, SC).

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"True love gathers power and spreads itself..." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo in honor of Valentine’s Day...

This heart stone under Baba’s Tree at Meher Mount marks the spot where Avatar Meher Baba sat alone in 1956. It is a touchpoint for many visitors.

For Amartithi 2025, Martha Aubin decorated it with flowers. Later that day, Margaret Magnus took this photograph and was reminded of the following from Meher Baba on love.

“Essentially, love is self-communicative: Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it, for one cannot absorb love without making a response.

The secret of true love is that it is unconquerable and irresistible. True love gathers power and spreads itself until it transforms everyone it touches.

Humanity will attain a new mode of life through the unhampered interplay of pure love, as it spreads from heart to heart.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Source

D. E. Stevens, editor, Listen, Humanity, (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.

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"the feeling of oneness, through love, is brought about amongst all..." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of Amartithi, today January 31st…

“Unity in the midst of diversity can be made to be felt only by touching the very core of the heart. This is the work for which I have come.

I have come to sow the seed of love in your hearts so that, in spite of all superficial diversity which your life in illusion must experience and endure, the feeling of oneness, through love, is brought about amongst all the nations, creeds, sects and castes of the world.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Amartithi

Amartithi is the anniversary of the date in 1969 — January 31st — when Avatar Meher Baba, the deathless One, dropped His body and left the physical form. Amartithi is a Hindi and Marathi word. Literally, amar is deathless; tithi is day. Also, Amartithi is the eternal date or a date with the Eternal One.

Followers around the world gather on this day to honor and remember Meher Baba. See: “What Amartithi Means to Me.”

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Sources

• Quote: Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 3640, accessed January 29, 2025. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

• Photograph: Avatar Meher Baba at Wadia Park, Ahmednagar, India, on September 12, 1954, during the Three Incredible Weeks. Photographer: Bhaiya Panday. Used with permission.

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"You will at once turn it into laughter." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of Global Belly Laugh Day…

Avatar Meher Baba always encouraged jokes and laughter.

“Very seriously, whenever you get excited, or feel others are unjust, or you feel they pass remarks, or you feel you are in the right and they in the wrong — the very moment you feel all this, remember me and get control. Pinch yourself, go aside. You must take practical steps.

The moment you feel excited, make a fuss, remember me and begin singing or dancing — very practical solution. You will at once turn it into laughter.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Global Belly Laugh Day

Global Belly Laugh Day is a day for having a good, deep chuckle. It is about finding what is funny for each person and trying to share in the joy. Having a good laugh each day is an excellent practice. It is said to be good for your health — producing endorphins, reducing stress, improving the immune system, and increasing blood flow.

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Sources

• Quote: Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 2021, accessed January 6, 2025. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

• Photograph: Faredoon (Padri) Driver, in Poona (now Pune), India, in 1951, courtesy of Meher Nazar Publications.

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"I belong to no religion..." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of this season when much of the world celebrates the birth of Jesus…

Avatar Meher Baba said God incarnates in human form every 500 to 1400 years. Each incarnation is referred to as an Avatar. Past incarnations include Meher Baba, Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Rama, and Zoroaster.

“The Avatar is always One and the Same, because God is always One and the Same, the Eternal, Indivisible, Infinite One…the Highest of the High,” Meher Baba explained.

“This Eternally One and the Same Avatar repeats His manifestation from time to time, in different cycles, adopting different human forms and different names, in different places, to reveal Truth in different garbs and different languages…” [1]

“I belong to no religion. Every religion belongs to Me. My personal religion is My being the Ancient Infinite One, and the religion I impart to all is Love for God, which is the truth of all religions.

This Love can belong to all, high and low, rich and poor. Every one of every caste and creed can love God. The one and only God who resides equally in us all is approachable by each one of through love.

Religion, like worship, must be from the heart. If instead of creating churches, fire-temples, mandirs and mosques, people were to establish the House of God in their hearts for the Beloved God to dwell supreme, my work will have been done.

If, instead of mechanically performing ceremonies and rituals as age-old customs, people were to serve their fellow-beings with the selflessness of love, taking God to be equally residing in one and all and knowing that by serving others they are serving me, my work will have fulfilled. ”

— Avatar Meher Baba [2]

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Sources

[1] The Silent Master, Meher Baba, pg. 45, (c) Irwin Luck, 1967. Quotations from Meher Baba with permission of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.
[2] The Message of Meher Baba, “Truth of Religion,” Meher Baba Publications, pg. 5. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.
[3] Photo: Avatar Meher Baba. (c)Meher Nazar Publications, Ahmednagar, India.

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"Will you please tell me, then - what is gratitude?"

Your Friday photo…

The following is an excerpt from Conversations with The Awakener, written by Bal Natu, a close follower of Avatar Meher Baba. This conversation, “An Ever Flowing Stream of Gratitude,” is part of a collection of internal conversations between Bal and his Divine Beloved, Meher Baba.

“Will you please tell me, then - what is gratitude?”

— Bal Natu, An Internal Conversation with Meher Baba

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Meher Baba: "Gratitude is a most lovable way of acknowledging My unconditional compassion. And it strengthens your relationship with Me. I have no expectation of it, for My own sake, but it is for your personal good."

Bal Natu: "In what way?"

Meher Baba: "It opens up new informal avenues through which you may feel My presence more and more."

Bal Natu: "Will You please tell me, then — what is gratitude?"

Meher Baba: "In a sense, gratitude is the art of accepting life, moment by moment, in whatever situation one finds oneself, as being My Will. You offer everything to Me, and receive everything from Me."

Bal Natu: "I wonder how in my daily living I can remain grateful to You."

Meher Baba: "Well, if you are honest about wanting to do this, then you will recognize My tender little graces — and these are many — while attending to daily chores or any important work."

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The extended internal conversation between Bal and Meher Baba is included in the free Meher Mount eBook on gratitude, "Does Meher Baba Want Us to Thank Him?"

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Sources

• Bal Natu, Conversations with the Awakener, pg. 24. (c) 1991 Sheriar Foundation. Used by permission.

• Image: Avatar Meher Baba in Mahabaleshwar, India, on December 25, 1950. Photographed by Faredoon (Padri) Driver. MSI Collection, Meherabad, India. Used with permission.

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"True sportsmanship is concentrated ability, enlivened with appreciation of the performance of others." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of Meher Baba’s affinity for the game of cricket…

Today, the India National Cricket Team plays South Africa.

Meher Baba enjoyed playing and watching cricket. Cricket and other games were often played in the ashram with His close followers.

In this photo, Meher Baba is playing cricket in Lower Meherabad, India, in 1936.

In 1959, He gave the following message to the players of the Poona Cricket Association before they left India to go to England for a test match.

“True sportsmanship is concentrated ability, enlivened with appreciation of the performance of others. And when this is manifested, everyone present, both players and spectators, receives spiritual upliftment as well as good entertainment.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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“In going to England [1959] to represent India in the field of sport, you also have the unique opportunity of practicing and of conveying to the people there the great spiritual lessons of concentration and love.

When you take the field, and if you play as eleven men with one heart, each enjoying the excellence of performance in another player as he would in himself, whether that player is on your side or on the side of the opposing team, and so eliminating feelings of jealousy, anger and pride, which so often mar the sport — you will not only be entertaining the spectators, but demonstrating the real spirit of sportsmanship.

True sportsmanship is concentrated ability, enlivened with appreciation of the performance of others. And when this is manifested, everyone present, both players and spectators, receives spiritual upliftment as well as good entertainment.

Some of you are ‘all-rounders.’ I am the greatest spiritual ‘all-rounder’ of all times, because I feel equally at home with saints, yogis, philosophers and cricketers, as well as with so-called sinners and scoundrels.

I give you my blessing that in all your actions you show forth the spirit of love.”

~Avatar Meher Baba

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Sources

• Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 4510, accessed September 14, 2024. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India. Used with permission.

• Photograph: Faredoon (Padri) Driver, Meherabad, India, 1936. Meher Nazar Publications. Used with permission.

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"I really need that right now..."

Your Friday photo…

Nearly 300 stickers carrying Meher Baba’s well-known message, “don’t worry, be happy,” were given to visitors at Meher Mount's booth during Ojai Day 2024.

When offered the free "don't worry, be happy" sticker, a common response was, "Yes. I really need that right now." And then the person smiled.

At the booth are Sam Ervin, Juan Mendez, and Ron Holsey talking to one of the many people who stopped by to chat.

See below to see why there’s always a happy ending — and to get your own free sticker.

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“I really need that right now..”

— A Visitor Reaching for a "Don't Worry, Be Happy" Sticker

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A Happy Ending

Mani S. Irani, Meher Baba’s sister and close disciple, reinforced the “don’t worry, be happy” message when she shared this story:

“When Baba said a thing it was with the authority of supreme knowledge, knowing everything. So when He says be happy, don't worry, He knows there is no reason to worry.

“…Baba would always like a happy ending. That is because His story, the story of His creation, has a happy ending. We are simply going through chapters.

“But somebody who has read the book and who knows the end, can very authoritatively say, ‘Don't worry, don't worry’ while you are in the midst of a chapter which is terrible.

“So whenever we go through something that seems so difficult, so disagreeable, don't worry, remember it is only a chapter... the next chapter might be different.

“When the end of the story comes, the story is finished. So, we might as well enjoy the story while we are in it too.”

Source: Bill Le Page, ed., The Divine Humanity of Meher Baba, Volume II, pp. 183-184.  (Woombye, Australia: Meher Baba Foundation).  ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Trust, Ahmednagar India.

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"Why were the saints, the saints?" - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in honor of the Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi…

The feast is on October 4th every year to commemorate the life of Saint Francis (1181- 1226).

This story and photo from Agnes Montano is particularly apropos because Saint Francis is the patron saint of animals and the environment.

One day Avatar Meher Baba dictated the following about saints, especially in regard to Saint Francis.

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“Why were the saints, the saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful and patient when it was difficult to be patient.

And because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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Not all Meher Baba’s guests at Meher Mount come in human form.

When my husband Juan Mendez and I were caretaking at Meher Mount, a yearling buck visited on a daily basis. He would spend most of the day leisurely resting in a spot by the statue of St. Francis.

Francis — as we started calling the deer — was not frightened by our presence.

One day Francis ventured onto the veranda. He nuzzled against one of the glass doors in the reception area. Then he seemed to look straight at Meher Baba’s photos hanging on the wall.

He pressed his nose hard against the door, as if wanting to come inside.

The gentle nature of this deer was an endearing reminder of the connections we – animals, plants and trees – share with the Divine and how God expresses Himself in all living beings.

~Agnes Montano, Temporary Caretaker & Board Member

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Sources

• Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, page 2098, accessed September 11, 2024. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

• Carolyn M. Ball, Meher Baba in Assisi . (Myrtle Beach, SC: Arti Books). (c)2019 by Carolyn M. Ball.

• Agnes Montano, “Francis (the Deer) Visits St. Francis (the Statue),” Meher Mount Story Blog, accessed September 11, 2024.

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"Say to yourself, 'I am meant to be happy...'" - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo celebrates National Positive Thinking Day…

Avatar Meher Baba making His general gesture for happiness in this photo taken by Faredoon (Padri) Driver

It's as if Meher Baba is saying, “It’s good, isn’t it?” or “You’re happy, aren’t you?”

“Say to yourself, ‘I am meant to be happy, to make others happy,’ and gradually you do become happy yourself and make others happy, too. ”

— Avatar Meher Baba

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There’s a story shared in Lord Meher in which a nurse named Mrs. Schreiber told Meher Baba, “I am so tired of life and very unhappy. I don’t see how I can improve.”

Meher Baba responded:

“Everyone is unconsciously tired of this life, because everyone seeks happiness, but knows not how to get it.

But life is so beautiful! It is meant to be happy.

I will help you. Then things will appear changed. You will see it.

It is always the outlook that counts, and not the object.

Today, you feel tired, upset, seeing nothing beautiful in things around you in life.

If tomorrow, you do not feel bored but cheerful in the same things that appeared so black to you yesterday — it is all due to changed mentality and outlook.

The easy way is not to make so much of things. Take them lightly.

Say to yourself, 'I am meant to be happy, to make others happy,' and gradually you do become happy yourself and make others happy, too.

Don't suggest to your mind, 'I am tired, haggard, depressed,' et cetera. That will make it worse.

Always say, 'All is well and beautiful. I will be happy.’”

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Sources

• Quote: Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 1631, accessed August 29, 2024. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

• Photograph: Faredoon (Padri) Driver, Bangalore, India, late 1939/early 1940. Meher Nazar Publications. Used with permission.

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National Positive Thinking Day

Positive Thinking Day is celebrated on September 13th every year to highlight the rewards of positive thinking. Too much negativity can have an adverse impact on our emotional well-being. So, on Positive Thinking Day and other days too, it’s an opportunity to remind ourselves of Meher Baba’s words, “don’t’ worry, be happy.”

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"I want Agni to know that I love Meher Mount very, very much." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo celebrates the 68th anniversary of Meher Baba’s visit to Meher Mount on August 2, 1956…

“I want Agni to know that I love Meher Mount very, very much.”

— Avatar Meher Baba, Meher Mount, 1956

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Agnes Baron, Meher Mount co-founder, describes one of her interactions with Avatar Meher Baba at Meher Mount in 1956:

So on one of the occasions when Meher Baba called me over, He was looking very solemn and very impressive as only Baba can look.

And He stood. And one of the mandali [close disciple who interpreted His gestures] was there.

And Baba said, “I want Agni to know that I love Meher Mount very, very much.” And then, of course, that typical gesture of “very, very much. I am very happy.”

And He really beamed, I mean, He just glowed.

He just gestured, “very, very happy.’’ And He looked it.

And then He said, “And I want her to know that Meher Mount has a very spiritual atmosphere.”

And of course, I made my usual wisecrack, I knew it wasn’t. He stared at me and repeated, “A very spiritual atmosphere.” 

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Sources

• “Agnes Baron Remembers Meher Baba’s 1956 Visit,” Meher Mount Story Blog, October 11, 2021.

• Photograph of Meher Baba at Meher Mount with co-founder Agnes Baron by Darwin Shaw, August 2, 1956. (c)Meher Nazar Publications, Ahmednagar, India. Used with permission.

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"This land is very old, I have been here before." - Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is honor of Meher Baba’s 1956 visit to Meher Mount…

This photo of Meher Baba at Meher Mount is used with kind permission by Sufism Reoriented. And Charmian Duce Knowles shared some of her memories from that day with Meher Baba.

“This land is very old, I have been here before.”

— Avatar Meher Baba, Meher Mount, August 2, 1956*

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"When we visited Ojai in 1956," remembered Chairman Duce Knowles,** "the population was small, the roads were unpaved, and the valley's peace untouched by development.

"As we drove up the mountain to Meher Mount, fog shrouded the mountaintop and concealed the valley below. Still, the center itself looked marvelous.

"Agnes [Baron, co-founder and lifetime caretaker] led us to a guesthouse and swimming pool, through rose and herb gardens, fruit trees, and numerous California oaks, some quite ancient.

"Baba told us the land was very old and that he had been there before. He seemed happy to be back."

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Sources

• *Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 4065, accessed June 30, 2024. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust.

• **Charmian Knowles, Spread My Love (Walnut Creek, CA: Sufism Reoriented) , pg. 138. (c)2004 by Sufism Reoriented.

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"I want Agnes to have a special memento of this day." - Avatar Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is honor of Meher Baba’s 1956 visit to Meher Mount…

“I want Agnes to have a special memento of this day.”

— Avatar Meher Baba, Meher Mount, August 2, 1956

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When Meher Baba was at Meher Mount, He spent much of the day in the Baba Room with His followers.

On one occasion, remembered co-founder and caretaker Agnes Baron, “He was sitting in that chair and He called, ‘Charmian! Charmian!’” [silently through gestures]

Charmian Duce (later, Knowles) was filming Meher Baba’s 1956 trip in the US, and she was in the room.

Meher Baba said to Charmian, “You have a camera with you?”

She replied, “Yes.”  

“I want Agnes to have a special memento of this day. You take a picture,” He said.

“So, I came and knelt down by His side,” Agnes explained. “And Charmian took two good colored pictures which I cherish very much now.

“He was doing these fantastic, these really wonderful…these personal little gestures, that, you know, that He always does to make one person particularly happy,” said Agnes.

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Source

“Agnes Baron Remembers Meher Baba’s 1956 Visit,” Meher Mount Story Blog, October 11, 2021.

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"The inaudible sound is from heart to heart..."

Your Friday photo is in honor of Silence Day, July 10th.

Silence Day is when followers of Avatar Meher Baba keep silence for 24 hours.

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“Those who have been in his presence know that Baba communicates through his silence. What proceeds from him is beyond words, does not need words, could not be contained in them. The inaudible sound is from heart to heart; silence that penetrates mind and heart.”

— C.B. Purdom, Author of The God-Man

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Avatar Meher Baba began His silence on July 10, 1925. He said that His silence was not undertaken as a spiritual exercise, but solely in connection with His universal work.

After Meher Baba started His silence, He communicated by writing on a slate board.  After that, He pointed to letters on an alphabet board to spell out words. Later, He used a series of hand gestures that were interpreted by His close disciples.

He kept silence for 44 years until He dropped His body on January 31, 1969.

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Photo

Avatar Meher Baba, Bangalore, India, sometime between October 1939 to April 1940. Photographed by Bhaiya Panday. MSI Collection. Used with permission.

Quote

C.B. Purdom, The God-Man: The Life, Journey and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of his Silence and Spiritual Teaching, Second Edition, second printing with corrections (2010), Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook, June 2011, pg. 410. ©1964 C.B. Purdom, ©Meher Spiritual Center, Inc.

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