Attitudes for aspirants: Honesty – The ready means to know the first outlines of the inner self

There is no more ready means by which the first outlines of the inner self can be known than through complete honesty. Honesty with […]

“It is better to deny God than to defy God”

God alone is real, and undoubtedly God exists. I am God. I am God in human form and God the Beyond. I experience my […]

Spiritual jingoism – Final Part 3 (The impostor is inviting a spiritual doom for himself)

There are some assumptions and presumptions which necessarily attend upon the divine speculation, to which each seeker is inevitably drawn. All search is a […]

Spiritual jingoism – Part 2 (Even sincere seekers can get enticed by the allurements of spiritual jingoism)

Among the claimants for spirituality, there are very few who sincerely believe in their own claim and then take their stand by it. Most […]

Spiritual jingoism – Part 1 (The fault of not being able to accept and one’s own weaknesses)

In no sphere of life is jingoism more rampant than in the fields of spirituality. As in the market of economic goods, so also […]

The disciple and his attitudes – Hypocrisy

 

There is a demoralizing cleavage between what man is and what he wishes to appear to be. When hypocrisy comes into play it […]

If you want this prem [love] that you desire, … you must obey me”

Robert Dreyfuss [aged 22] had been planning a trip to India for some years and now knew why — to see Meher Baba! He […]

The least trace of hypocrisy keeps Him away from us

“God is the Only One worth living for and dying for. If we love Him intensely, honestly, without the least hypocrisy, we find Him […]

Self-delusion and hypocrisy

Later that afternoon of February 9th, Baba explained about hypocrisy and delusion. He asked the Westerners, “What is self-delusion? We say that so-and-so is […]

20130527 – Better not to believe in God than be a hypocrite!

On May 12th, Dr. Vinod from New York, who knew the Winterfeldts, saw Baba at 8:15 A.M. He was a Hindu and part […]