How to Love God
Meher Baba said the Avatar* comes each time with the same basic message:
“I have only one message to give, and I repeat it age after age to one and all: Love God.”
How to Love God
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones,
we love God.
If, instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves,
we are loving God.
If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves,
we rob ourselves to help others,
we are loving God.
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy
in the happiness of others,
we are loving God.
If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes,
we think ourselves more fortunate than many many others,
we are loving God.
If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will,
we are loving God.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion
and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings,
we are loving God.
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God,
knowing that the goal of life is to Love God,
and find Him as our own self.
— Avatar Meher Baba
Avatar
*Avatar is the manifestation of God in human form on earth, literally “descent of God.” Meher Baba said, “When God manifests on earth in the form of man and reveals His Divinity to mankind, He is recognized as the Avatar — the Messiah — the Prophet.
“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 declared that He is the same Ancient One known in the past as Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed.
Sources
The Path of Love, pg. 109, editor Filis Frederick, 1986 (c) Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.
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.