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Obedience and Strength
This Father’s Day, I thought of Meher Baba, the compassionate father. The “soft like butter and hard like steel”[1] aspects of fatherhood that Baba represents in our daily lives with Him. Naturally, I also thought of His father, Sheriarji, with his softer nature and otherworldly pursuit of God. Then, another contrasting figure sprang to mind….
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“Becoming a Real Person”
Meher Baba has said that He is the essence of your very being which initially provoked you to ask the question: Who is Meher Baba? Even in those born into a Baba family, who presume they know about Baba, He provokes this same question, for the question can only be answered through a personal awakening…
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1958 Omnibus
Meher Baba hinted in October 1957, that a Sahavas program might take place at Meher Spiritual Center in May 1958. Kitty Davy recalled, “All my thoughts were focused on seeing Baba once again and the opportunity to prepare for His possible visit, even though it was still seven months away — and only a possibility…
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Gulmai: Meher Baba’s Spiritual Mother
This Mother’s Day, I thought of Gulmai. The humble, steadfast and silently suffering woman who Meher Baba called His spiritual mother. Gulmai was the wife of Kaikhushru Sarosh Irani, a prominent businessman and civic leader in Ahmednagar. She was also one of Upasni Maharaj’s disciples. She was then 36 and the mother of four children….
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Insights into Francis Brabazon’s ”Dawn through to Sunrise”
In early May 1952 at the Meher Center, Francis Brabazon met Meher Baba for the very first time. Six weeks earlier in New York he had a significant experience which he felt inwardly prepared him for that meeting. This occurred when he met “Sparkie” Lukes, a friend of Charmaine Duce. Sparkie was a beautiful young…
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“She was filled with Baba’s love”
When the young dancer Merna Bailyn1 first heard of Meher Baba from Margaret Craske in the early 1950s, she was immediately “drawn towards Him with a strong feeling of love.”2 She drank in Miss Craske’s stories about her life with Baba. She read the Discourses and would spend evenings with friends talking of Him. She…
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Excerpt from Life’s Surrender: Countess Nadine Tolstoy, Disciple of Avatar Meher Baba
The following excerpts are from the recently published Life’s Surrender: Countess Nadine Tolstoy, Disciple of Avatar Meher Baba by Christopher Wilson and Charles Haynes (Sheriar Foundation, 2025). Drawing on her unpublished private papers and articles that Nadine published during her lifetime, the book traces the deepening of Nadine’s relationship with Meher Baba, from the moment…
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“Every grain of sand here…is so full of Baba”
Meher Akshay Bundellu was in no hurry to visit the Meher Spiritual Center when he moved from India to Cleveland to get a masters in computer science in January of 2021. A fourth generation Baba lover from Pune, his great-grandparents1 and grandparents2 were members of the Poona Bhajan Mandali in the 1950s and 1960s. Baba…
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The First Amartithi on the Sacred Hill
When I think of Amartithi, the Eternal date, images of huge, flowy pandals come to mind. Thousands of people under them in a united mass – the elderly, the very young, rich, poor, eastern, western, new and old, merging together in a rushing stream into the ocean – His Tomb shrine. As we approach the…
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“The Treasure Untold”
Kitty Davy gave the following talk on the 19th Amartithi in 1988 at the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach. It is excerpted from the book One Fine Thread, Talks on Meher Baba by Kitty Davy.1 Hidden in your penniless hands is Treasure untold Your beggarly life will be the envy of kings! —from the…