"I shall change the history of the whole world." - Avatar Meher Baba
Meher Mount
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Avatar Meher Baba declared that He is the same Ancient One known in the past as Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed.
“I shall change the history of the whole world. As Jesus came to impart spirituality to a materialistic age, so I have come to impart a spiritual push to present-day mankind.”
When Avatar Meher Baba was questioned about His mission, He stated:
“I shall change the history of the whole world. As Jesus came to impart spirituality to a materialistic age, so I have come to impart a spiritual push to present-day mankind. There is always a fixed time for such divine workings, and when the hour is ripe, I shall reveal my true nature to the entire world.
“The great teachers of religion — Zoroaster, Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad — do not differ in their essential doctrines. All these Prophets came from God. These Divine Ones appeared in public when their help was most needed, when spirituality was at its lowest ebb and materialism was apparently victorious everywhere. Mankind is rapidly approaching such a time.
“At present, the whole world is enmeshed in sensual desires, in racial prejudice, selfishness and money-worship. God is forsaken! True religion is abused. Man seeks life and the priests give him stones! God, therefore, must send his True Prophet among men once again to establish true worship and to awaken people out of their materialistic stupor. I but follow in the line of these earlier Prophets. This is my mission.”
~Avatar Meher Baba
Sources
Quote: Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 1207, accessed December 15, 2025. ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahilyanagar, India.
Photo: Avatar Meher Baba, Upper Meherabad, India, circa 1928. Photographer is probably S. S. Deen. Meher Nazar Publications, Ahilyanagar, India.