About the TRUST:

In 1959, when he was 65 years old, Avatar Meher Baba established the Avatar Meher Baba Trust. Its purpose was to provide for his disciples who were dependent on him, and to care for his future Tomb and his property at Meherabad, near Ahmednagar Maharashtra State, India. Meher Baba also specified in the Trust Deed that after he had passed away the the Trust should maintain and care for his Tomb at Meherabad, create facilities for pilgrims there, foster spiritual and cultural activities relating to the spreading of his message, and carry out certain charitable activities for the benefit of humanity irrespective of caste, creed, religion, sex or nationality. It was also to provide training in the spiritual life. All this was to be done in a spirit of selfless service inspired by love for God. God, Baba said, is in each and everyone.

Baba signed the Trust Deed on 6 April 1959 on Meherabad Hill. The Trust was inactive for the remaining ten years of his life, but he encouraged the trustees, who were his close disciples, to meet intermittently on trust matters. In the 1960s, he gave certain instructions to them for the future about spiritual training and educating the public about his life and message. These were later incorporated into the Trust Deed.

On June 17th, 1967, Baba executed His Last Will and Testament, in which He bequeathed His property, tangible and intangible. In His Will copyright receives more attention than any other topic.

After Baba passed away in January 1969, the Trust began to function actively for the first time. Soon after, the charitable, public aspects of the Trust became the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, and the private provision for the disciples became Avatar Meher Baba Trust (referred to in the Trust Deed as ‘Firstly’).

In the years since, Meherabad and Baba’s nearby home called Meherazad have become places of pilgrimage for people from all over the world. (Meherazad was incorporated into the Trust in 1999.) Free clinics, a hospital, a school, a library, museum and study hall, a veterinary clinic, and a variety of accommodations for visitors have been established at Meherabad in accordance with Baba’s wishes. This has been made possible through donations given in love by Baba’s followers from many countries and walks of life.

The atmosphere of Divine Love at Meherabad and Meherazad has inspired countless artistic celebrations of love for God through music, dance, plays, story-telling, poetry, painting, videos, and films. These have all been encouraged by the Trust as Meher Baba directed.

Mani S. Irani, Baba’s sister and intimate disciple, was the Trust’s chairman for over 20 years. Since her passing in 1996, Bhau Kalchuri, another of Baba’ s close disciples, has been the chairman. The nine trustees are all dedicated followers of Meher Baba.

Recently the Trust created a long-term development plan for Meherabad to preserve the special atmosphere around Baba’s Tomb while meeting the needs of an ever-increasing number of pilgrims. Long-range plans are also being formulated for his home at Meherazad, particularly creation of a park-like environment around the property with gardens and amenities for visitors, as well as facilities for Meherazad’s charitable activities.

. . . From 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba maintained silence, and communicated by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. With his mandali (‘circle’ of disciples), he spent long periods in seclusion, often fasting, but he would intersperse these periods with wide-ranging travels, public gatherings, and works of charity, including working with lepers, the poor, and the mad.

In 1931 he made the first of many visits to the West, gathering many followers. Throughout most of the 1940s he worked with an enigmatic type of people that he said were advanced souls and which he termed masts. Starting in 1949, along with selected mandali, he traveled incognito about India in what he called “The New Life.” On February 10, 1954, Meher Baba declared that he was the Avatar (an incarnation of God).

After suffering as a passenger in two automobile accidents, one in the United States in 1952 and one in India in 1956, his capacity to walk became seriously limited. In 1962 he invited his western followers to India for a mass darshan called The East-West Gathering. Concerned by an increasing use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, in 1966 Meher Baba addressed their use and discredited any alleged spiritual benefits. Despite deteriorating health, he continued his “universal work,” which included fasting, seclusion, and meditation, until he died on January 31, 1969. His samadhi (tomb-shrine) in Meherabad, India has become a place of international pilgrimage.

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.. On this visit, Meher Baba made contact with a number of individuals who became lifelong Baba lovers, forming the core of his devotees in this country. This group included Delia de Leon, Will and Mary Backett, Charles Purdom, Kitty Davy and Margaret Craske.

Meher Baba made a profound impact on them. Their meetings took place in London and in East Challacombe, Devon, where Meredith Starr had established a spiritual retreat.

Margaret Craske described her first meeting with Baba. “…I went into the room and was completely won over by the love which seemed to permeate his whole personality.”

Quentin Todd, another member of this early group, described an early interview with Meher Baba. “We sat for several minutes in silence and I was aware of a great feeling of love and peace emanating from him; also a curious feeling of recognition came to me, as if I had found a long-lost friend.”

Although Meher Baba had begun his silence in 1925, this was never a barrier to communication with him. Delia de Leon wrote of her early impressions: “I never felt Baba didn’t speak. I was never conscious of that because he was always speaking to your soul, to your heart.”

Meher Baba’s subsequent visits followed a similar pattern. They were opportunities for existing Baba lovers to see Meher Baba in person and to experience the love that radiated from him. And they were times when those who were curious to meet him could do so, often with the result that they found themselves irresistibly drawn to him.

The Meher Baba Association, a registered charity, has had a number of offices and premises in London and elsewhere in England. It has always played a special role in Meher Baba’s work and he is its perpetual President. (Excerpt from Web Site)

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. . . For most of Mrs. Duce’s tenure, Sufism Reoriented was configured as a small study group, meeting either at her home or in a rented meeting room on Sutter Street in San Francisco. With the growing interest in spirituality that emerged in the early 1970s, Sufism moved to its current location in Walnut Creek, California. Membership approached its current level in the early 1980s and has remained consistent since that time. Sufism Reoriented does not proselytize or publicize its classes or activities, but welcomes new members who share a deep inner yearning to devote their lives to the love of God and service to his world following the guidance provided by Meher Baba.

Before her passing in 1981, Murshida Duce designated Dr. James S. B. MacKie as her successor. Dr. MacKie, a psychologist who had taught psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical School and had served as a consultant for the Peace Corps, served in the role of Murshid until his passing in June 2001. He appointed the current teacher, Dr. Carol Weyland Conner, to assume the role of Murshida.

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