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Heading Home
Meher Baba spent much of the last four year of His life doing His universal work in seclusion— despite the strain of the work on His poor physical health, and the thousands of lovers new and old desperate to be near Him. A decade earlier, in the Barn, Baba had asked Eruch to describe His…
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The Power of His Name
As Baba lovers we are blessed to have His merciful instruction of involving Him in anything we do. We can turn our day to day life into sadhana with Meher Baba. It is through this very act that we get closer to Him and are led by His voice within us. But what do we…
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The Real Flowers
On an early spring afternoon at the Center, while doing my rounds checking each quiet, unoccupied cabin, I stopped my golf cart in front of the Guest House. As I entered the wooden gates, I was greeted by pink flowers overflowing from the bushes all around me, each petal alive in the breeze and sunlight….
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Holding His Hand
Jennifer’s first visit to the Center was in the spring of 2019. She returned again this winter. In her introduction letter to the Center Jennifer wrote, “Baba has continued to be the director of my life. I know that I can find Him everywhere but to have the opportunity to be where He placed His…
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The Birthday at the Center
When Baba visited the Center in May of 1958, He requested a birthday party. The invitees to the party were children—adults could only come if brought by a child. In considering how to write an article on Baba’s birthday at the Center, for a few seconds I was disappointed that Baba never celebrated His birthday…
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Coming Home to Paradise
Jonas is thirteen years old. Three years ago, I remember checking his mother Jessica, brother Ezra and him into the Center for their first overnight stay. Jessica had seen the Center on several occasions while driving by. She eventually did her research and had already watched Baba videos when she came into the Center with…
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The Eternal Date
On January 31 st , 1969, at 12:15 PM, Meher Baba dropped His physical form. The grief was unimaginable for so many of the lovers who had grown accustomed to His physical presence. And alongside that grief started to appear something else— a silent, brilliant, unchangeable truth that makes sense of the day’s name, “Amartithi,”…
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Gifts
For Meherjyoti, coming to the Center was Baba’s birthday gift— one that reminded her of another gift He gave long ago. Meherjyoti had wanted to visit the Center for decades, but it was so far from her home in India that she didn’t know when she’d possibly get a chance. Then, this year, her husband…
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Mehera: Baba’s Radha
How could one explain who Mehera is? Lovers of God strive to emulate her love, and philosophers expend their intellectual prowess to understand her love. But who better than Meher Baba to explain her so simply, “She is the very breath without which I cannot live.” Whenever God takes the human form, he has a…
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The Acorn that Bore the Mighty Oak
In 1968, one of the last things that Meher Baba signed was a children’s book that He sent as a gift for a group of children known as “Happy Club.” Happy Club began in 1966, when Elizabeth Patterson, one of the founders of the Center, and 13-year-old Wendy Haynes, drove to a local African-American neighborhood…