Baba’s method of pulling us out of maya – Nilu and the cow dung story

 

Donkin had escorted her (Rano) in the tonga, and on the way back he bought some toffees for the mandali.

When they got […]

Consider Other’s wealth as stone

ON JUNE 13th, looking at Kishan Singh, Baba quoted this verse from Tulsidas on his alphabet board:

“Consider others’ wealth as stone, […]

The problem of self-interest – Part 3

Humanity, as constituted at present, uses three vehicles for the expression of thoughts, and experiences three states of consciousness. These […]

Wants of the body have kept you away from the threshold of Love

On 14 April, the following couplets of Hafiz (which Baba had previously translated into English) were read out:

Hafiz says:

O ignorant one! Strive, […]

“By starving the mind of desires, the ego becomes very thin and weak”

Baba called all the mandali to the mast ashram (on the hill) at three in the afternoon, and gave this explanation about fasting:

The […]

“I feel shy of strangers!”

And who are the strangers? Wants, desires, thoughts!

They are all so compressed within you that they leave no room for God the Beloved, […]

Reincarnation and Karma [63]– The Destiny of the Reincarnating Individual: Power behind incarnations is craving

The power that keeps the individual soul bound to the wheel of life and death is its thirst for separate […]

The Path is “I want nothing”

The reporters were then introduced to Baba individually. At the end of their ten-minute audience, one of them asked, “Meher Baba, what is […]

Wants, desires, thoughts leave no room for God

One Persian couplet states the following:

God the Beloved says to the lover: Vacate your abode of its millions of strangers;

Then […]

Heartfelt prayers but not list of wants

 

All the time pray to Me — it is good to pray. But the prayer that reaches Me is not a long list […]