"My grace is always there..." - Avatar Meher Baba
Meher Mount
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Photographer Juan Mendez captured this image of a fox drinking from a bird bath at Meher Mount. On Sulphur Mountain, birds and animals of all sizes visit because they are thirsty and looking for water.
The following story of thirst and Meher Baba’s grace is from Befitting a Fortunate Slave: Meher Baba's Eruch by Davana Brown. Eruch Jessawala (1916-2001) was one of Meher Baba’s closest disciples and often interpreted Baba’s hand gestures and use of the alphabet board. Davana Brown is a resident volunteer at Meherazad and was Eruch’s assistant.
“My grace is always there; it is like a torrential river that is ever flowing. If you are thirsty you go to the river.”
It was not unusual for the theme of grace to be discussed during pilgrim sessions in Mandali Hall (Meherazad, India) or around Eruch's table at the Meher Baba Trust Office (Ahmednagar, India) during teatime musings, Davana Brown writes.
The topic was talked about from every imaginable perspective. Eruch Jessawala responded:
“You are asking me, how do you receive His grace. For that you need the container. The thing is, we are all longing and begging for His grace asking. 'When will Your grace descend on us that we can love You and see You as You really are?'
“But Baba says, 'My grace is always there; it is like a torrential river that is ever flowing. If you are thirsty you go to the river. What is there to stop you? But the trouble is, in order that you should have the full advantage for receiving My grace, you need to have the container to hold it. And that vessel is your thirst. Without thirst there is no way out.'
“Grace needs the container, and suffering and His remembrance increase our thirst, which helps to shape the container.”
~Eruch Jessawala, Close Disciple of Meher Baba
Source
Davana Brown, Befitting a Fortunate Slave: Meher Baba's Eruch, Volume I: By Your Grace Anything is Possible, pg. 303. (Myrtle Beach: Sheriar Foundation) ©2024 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.