Meher Darshan

Discourses

Meher Baba, Discourses, especially the sixth edition, which was edited by Don E. Stevens under Meher Baba's direction, is now available online. (Please use the back button to return to this site if the link does not open in a new tab or window.)

Discourses is also searchable here.

Don Stevens reads the sixth edition of Discourses in streaming audio at Meher Media.

A downloadable copy (PDF) of the seventh revised edition of Discourses is available at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library.

God Speaks

Chapters one through eight of God Speaks were dictated, reviewed and corrected by Meher Baba prior to publication. A downloadable copy (PDF) is available at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library.

"Highest of the High"

Available to read online in the anthology at AvatarMeherBaba.org.

"How To Love God"

Available to read online in the anthology at AvatarMeherBaba.org.

In God's Hand

An early manuscript written in the hand of Meher Baba. A downloadable copy (PDF) is available at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library.

"Last Message on the Alphabet Board"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

"Meher Baba's Call"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

"My Wish"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

The New Life Circulars of Meher Baba

A downloadable copy (PDF) is available at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library.

"The Master's Prayer"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

"The Prayer of Repentance"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

"Universal Message"

Available to read online at the AvatarMeherBaba.org site.

Dr. Abdul Ghani, "The Song of the New Life."

According to Meher Baba's secretary, Adi K. Irani to Don Stevens, Meher Baba reviewed and approved the proofs before authorizing publication. Therefore, it is considered a primary text. It is available online at Lord Meher.org

Eruch Jessawala, "The New Life Is Endless"

Available to read online.

Eruch Jessawala, et al, Tales of the New Life with Meher Baba with Meher Baba

Available to read or download.pdf Tales from the New Life with Meher Baba (Berkeley: Meher Baba Information, 1976) is out of print, and copies are rare.

Don E. Stevens, Listen Humanity

Part II was dictated, reviewed and corrected by Meher Baba. A downloadable copy (PDF) of Listen Humanity is available at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library. Don Stevens also reads Listen Humanity in streaming audio at Meher Media.

Don Stevens other works are available for purchase at Amazon.com:

Listen! The New Humanity

Man's Search for Certainty

Meher Baba: The Awakener of the Age

Meher Baba's Word and His Three Bridges

Some Results

The Inner Path in the New Life

While all expressions of wisdom are fundamental to core spirituality, these particular documents pertain to the stated mission of Meher Darshan, which is dedicated to the practice of core spirituality in light of Meher Baba's illumination of its principles for this age. The works of Don Stevens are also included for inspiration and guidance in working with Meher Baba's special words in accordance with directions he received from Meher Baba and on the basis of his experience individually and in companionship with others.

All of Meher Baba's words are regarded as being of utmost importance as an integral aspect of his mission and message. The testimony of his circle of disciples is also of great importance in documenting Meher Baba's life and expounding his message. Accordingly, this list of works is not meant to be either exclusive or exclusionary. The choice of these works is related solely to the purview of the mission of Meher Darshan, and no implication is intended regarding other materials.

These works of Meher Baba have been selected either because they relate specifically to some aspect of Meher Darshan's mission and others since they are known to meet the criteria that Meher Baba specified to Don Stevens concerning his special words, that is, that they were dictated, reviewed and meticulously corrected by him prior to his authorizing their release. Baba told Don that he had attached a spiritual charge to these special words, and he promised that all who worked with these words would absorb something of this charge which would be important for their spiritual ongoing, even if they did not undertand intellectually two words running. Then, Baba gave Don the charge to make this known to his followers, so that they might consciously take advantage of this extraordinary spiritual opportunity if they chose to do so.

Other words of Meher Baba were often given in a similar fashion and may be discovered to meet the criteria which Meher Baba specified for his "special" words. However, the only works that Meher Baba specifically mentioned to Don Stevens as meeting these criteria were chapters one through eight of God Speaks and Part II of Listen Humanity.

The writings of Don Stevens are also included as key documents in that they give an indication of how he arrived at his own views through his experience and reflection on it, as well as certain short messages of Meher Baba that are seminal to his teaching.

The only works which Meher Baba himself specified that one should especially read were God Speaks, which he said he charged with spiritual energy, and Francis Brabazon's epic poem Stay With God, which he listened to and edited, although he also recommended daily repetition of the Master's Prayer and the Prayer of Repentance, which he said he had especially empowered by saying them himself on numerous occasions.

In addition, before dropping the body Meher Baba instructed Bhau Kalchuri to write his Ramayana, going so far as to beat out the meter. It has been published in Hindi, but it has not yet been translated into English. The notes assembled for it were published in prose form in Hindi as Meher Pabhu and later translated into English as Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba. Through the tireless effort of Lawrence Reiter over many years, it is published in twenty volumes, which have now been made available online with a searchable database. Through the biography, one intimately discovers Avatar Meher Baba as the living exemplar of both of his own message and also of perennial wisdom in contemporary form. Along with diaries and other reminiscences of his close disciples, which are too numerous to mention specifically here, it is invaluable in gaining an insight not only into the teaching of the Avatar but also his living example.

Key works continue to be edited and published from the archives, and so the Meher Baba literary corpus is not yet complete. Finally, Meher Baba wrote a book in his own hand, which is said was his "bible," although the whereabouts of the manuscript is not now known. Should it become available, it will also be definitive. However, Meher Baba reportedly indicated that God Speaks contains ninety percent of the material in "The Book," and the other ten percent he gave as notes to Bhau Kalchuri, who fleshed them out after Meher Baba had dropped the body and published them under his own name as The Nothing and the Everything. An apparently early work of Meher Baba was recently discovered, edited and published under the title, Infinite Intelligence. This manuscript is not in Meher Baba's hand, and it's provenance is unknown. It is available for purchase from Sheriar Books.

There are several others books published under Meher Baba's name, and at least some of these were so closely reviewed by Baba in the process that some think that they qualify as his special words under the criteria Baba gave to Don Stevens. The Everything and the Nothing is one of these. It is available online for downlaod (PDF) at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Online Library, along with some other works not mentioned here.


Some Quotes of Avatar Meher Baba:


Now that Baba is physically among you, you feel the contact, but when I leave you, gradually this cools down. How to retain it constantly?

Well, do you feel constantly hungry? When you work hard, you get hungry. When you feel hungry, you take food, and then you forget about the food. So work for Me in such a way that you feel hungry for Me. Sometimes think of Me, sometimes work for Me, sometimes talk about Me, but not all the time. If you go on eating continuosly you will get indigestion!

Before you go to bed, say, Baba, I entrust all that I did, thought or spoke, good and bad, to You. When you get up, say, Baba, I now begin entrusting all - thoughts, works and deeds - to You. Say this just twice a day for five minutes, but with all your heart in it. Do that and make Me responsible for all you do or think. Then you are free... but you must do it HONESTLY. This much will be more than sufficient to maintain the contact with Me.

I am the Ocean. I can accept both flowers, coconuts and also filth. So throw everything in the Ocean with all your heart. This is a great thing if done wholeheartedly, otherwise it goes in your own pool of water which gets filthy because of your dirt.

Meher Baba
in Bal Natu, Glimpses of the God-Man, Vol. 5, p. 227-228


When you remember me, you are in sahaj dnyan (God's company or presence). The question is how to remember me.

The easiest and surest way is to do as I tell you. It will be somewhat of a task at first, as when you start to run you feel it too much (sore muscles); but when you are in training, you feel it sahaj (meaning, naturally). At first, you will have to do it deliberately, then it will become natural.

There are four quarters of the day; there are four divisions in man's physical state: childhood, youth, maturity, old age. There are four quarters that Kabir calls the signposts. The first thing in the morning when you get up, before doing anything, think of Baba for one second. Baba is then worn by your soul: early in the morning dress your soul with Baba. At 12 noon, for one second do the same; do it again about five o'clock; when you retire do it also. I have never asked anyone to do this, not even the mandali. If you do it, I will be always with you, and you will feel my company all the time. Do it for four seconds every day, then you will be in the world, yet Baba will be with you all the time. This is the beginning of sahaj dnyan.

To sum up, we have to feel in our heart of hearts that only God is real, that He alone exists, that He is in us all, that He alone is to be loved: God and God alone.

Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, v. 13, p. 4485-4487

I say with my Divine Authority to each and all that whosoever takes my name at the time of breathing his last comes to me; so do not forget to remember me in your last moments. Unless you start remembering me from now on, it will be difficult to remember me when your end approaches. You should start practising from now on. Even if you take my name only once every day, you will not forget to remember me in your dying moments.

Meher Baba
My Wish, 6 in C.B. Purdom, The God-Man, p. 320

The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart. This natural, normal method depends for its success upon a clear idea of the force behind your thoughts, and the facts underlying your actions.

The force behind your thoughts is the force of the impressions [sanskaras] in your mind. The impressions are there due to your own previous actions [karma]. Actions are the cause of impressions and thoughts are but the expression of the impressions. This being true, the more you try to check your thoughts, the more you interfere with the natural process of their expression. Sooner or later, with the added force produced by suppression, the impressions are bound to express themselves completely.

The truth of action is that every action, significant or insignificant, voluntary or involuntary, is at once impressed in turn upon your mind. Like a non-greasy stain, a light impression can be easily wiped out but impressions caused by actions conceived in anger, lust or greed are hard to remove. In short, actions produce impressions, and impressions produce thoughts. Thoughts in turn tend to precipitate further action.

For the purification of your heart, leave your thoughts alone, but maintain a constant vigil over your actions. When you have thoughts of anger, lust or greed, do not worry about them, and do not try to check them. Let all such thoughts come and go without putting them into action. Try to think counter-thoughts in order to discern, to discriminate, to learn, and above all to unlearn the actions which are prompted by your own impressions.

It is better to feel angry sometimes than merely to suppress anger. You then have an opportunity to think about anger, its causes and its consequences. Although your mind may be angry, do not let your heart know it. Remain unaffected.

If you never feel angry you will be like stone, in which form the mind is least developed. Similarly, if you never have lusty thoughts you cannot achieve the merit of having avoided lustful actions.

Let the thoughts of anger, lust and greed come and go freely and unasked without putting them into words and deeds. Then the related impressions in your mind begin to wear out and become less and less harmful. But when you put such thoughts into action-- whether overtly or secretly--you develop new impressions worse than those which are spent in the act. These new impressions root even more firmly in your mind.

The fire of divine love alone can destroy all impressions once and for all. However, remembering me can keep down the impurities in the impressions in your mind, as alum catches hold of (flocculates) dirt in a vessel of turbid water. Therefore, when you feel angry or have lustful thoughts, remember Baba [or your chosen ideal] at once. Let my name serve as a net around you so that your thoughts, like mosquitoes, may keep buzzing around you and yet not sting you. In that manner you can prevent unwanted thoughts from turning into unwanted actions, and thus eventually bring your heart to the purification required for me to manifest therein.

But it is not child's play to remember me constantly during your moments of excitement. If, in spite of being very angry, you refrain from expressing anger, it is indeed a great achievement. It means that when your mind becomes angry your heart does not know it, just as when your heart loves me your mind need not know it. In fact, your mind does not know that your heart loves when, prepared to give up life itself, you lead a life of day-to-day obedience and duty.

You can also entrust your mind to me by remembering me or repeating my name in your heart as often as you can. Remember me so often that your mind is at a loss to find other thoughts to feed on.

Although I am taking my own name continuously, I have come to hear it repeated by my lovers, and even though I were deaf, I would hear it if you repeated it only once with all your heart in it. If you cannot remember me constantly, then always take (repeat, think of) my name before going to sleep and on waking up.

At least remember to remember me when you breathe your last, and you will still come to me. But how will you remember at the last moment, unless you start to remember me right now?

Meher Baba
in Don Stevens
Listen Humanity, p. 43-45

If you ever come across any such savage animals, or if you find yourselves in a perilous situation, cry out my name loudly. I will then save you. Even if you die, you should know that I have saved you, because my protection is real protection. I always protect my lover.

There is a difference between remembering my name and actually saying it out loud. In the eventuality of your body being overcome with fear in the presence of any wild animal or other creature (such as a snake), at such moments of danger you should loudly cry out my name so loud that the sound of my name falls on the creature's ears which will immediately make it as meek as a lamb!

But before inanimate objects, during any serious mishap or accident — such as a car crash or train wreck — you will be saved by remembering me with full faith from the bottom of your heart.

Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, v. 4, p. 1276

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