Meher Baba said, “I have come not to teach but to awaken.” Yet in his books and messages, he offers humanity spiritual illumination and inspiration. Besides printed messages, at times Baba would convey something of particular interest through the alphabet board at sahavas gatherings, which would be relayed over a loudspeaker. The legacy of his words includes Discourses, a guidebook on practical spirituality; and God Speaks, a profound and unparalleled exposition outlining the spiritual framework of creation. His many uplifting messages on the subject of love can be found throughout the numerous books by and about Meher Baba.
Meher Baba’s Call
Given by Meher Baba on 12 September 1954
Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth. Age after age, amidst the clamor of disruptions, wars, f...
The Universal Message of Meher Baba
I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.
Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man’s inability to live G...
The Final Declaration
Given by Meher Baba on 30 September 1954
I am very happy to have you all here.
I know that many of you have come to Meherabad under very difficult circumstances. Some of you have covered thousands of miles, and even crossed...
The Last Warning
Avatar Meher Baba’s Last Warning to those who love Him, obey Him and all who would want to do so. Given by Meher Baba in July 1968 via his secretary Adi K. Irani
Baba wants all His lovers to know that:
This is a very critical p...
Man-o-nash
or The Annihilation of the Mind
The One All-pervading, All-comprehending, All-powerful God, who is the Self of our selves, and besides whom nothing is real, has helped me and guided me during the manonash period of my work, and now...
The Highest of the High
Given by Meher Baba on 7 September 1953
Consciously or unconsciously, directly or indirectly, each and every creature, each and every human being — in one form or the other — strives to assert individuality. But when eve...
JOURNEY OF THE SOUL TO THE OVERSOUL
Soul and its illusion
Atma, or the soul, is in reality identical with Paramatma the Oversoul — which is one, infinite, and eternal. The soul is in fact beyond the gross, subtle and mental worlds. But it experiences i...
THE PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Involution of Liberating Consciousness
When the consciousness of the soul is ripe for disentanglement from the gross world, it enters the spiritual path and turns inwards. Its gross impressions now become less deep....
THE AVATAR
Consciously or unconsciously, every living creature seeks one thing. In the lower forms of life and in less advanced human beings, the quest is unconscious: in advanced human beings, it is conscious. The object of the quest is called by...
MEHER BABA ON GOD REALISATION
It is better to die than to live, better to fear than to die, better to fill than to fear, and better to do or make than to fill.
'To die' does not mean the ordinary death of the body, but the real death of the ego....
MEHER BABA ON PERFECTION
Out of millions of souls, only one becomes Perfect. Perfection entails unimaginable hardships and sufferings. The Perfect man can bestow divine consciousness, the experience of infinity, upon anyone in the twinkling of an...
MEHER BABA ON MIRACLES
There is electricity in the air, and it has seven layers, one inside the other. The power that the yogis make use of comes from this unlimited source of cosmic energy in the air, from the third layer inside. They combine the...
MEHER BABA ON RELIGION
Basically, religion is one. There is only one religion. The source from which this religion has come is continuous, despite the lapses of ages. Yet several branches have come forth from this one religion, like the Zoroastrian,...
MEHER BABA ON SANSKARAS
A yogi, even after he attains the highest yogic state in his study, does not reach freedom, because there are still for him the sanskaras (meaning impressions) to finish up with.
Sanskaras mean the impressions left behind...
MEHER BABA ON SPIRITUALITY
Q. What is real spirituality?
Baba: Spirituality is a thing to be experienced and lived. It makes you firm like a rock. Neither worldly sorrows nor pleasures upset you. You attain the state where no desires remain, and...
MEHER BABA ON SUFFERING
Jamshed Mehta, the mayor of Karachi, told Baba he found himself surrounded by difficulties with no immediate solution. Baba told him,
This is not bad news, this is very good news. You are lucky to have so many hardships....
MEHER BABA ON SURRENDER
One in love tastes the glories of life to the full. The blissful heights of joyousness and the buoyant feelings of heavenly delights are the steady steps towards divine oneness.
Love surrenders to the will of the beloved,...
Besides this difference, the Avatar is always perfect in all respects, spiritually as well as materially, and in particular physically. The Avatar always has a charming personality, with a beautiful, symmetrical face and body, while the Perfect Masters...
MEHER BABA ON CREATION
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination.
October 1922, Bombay, LM2 p431
Ramjoo Abdulla: What are the stars?
Baba: Stars, like planets, are spheres. But many...
MEHER BABA ON DREAMS
In a way, even an ordinary dream is also a subconscious experience of the Subtle, because everyone necessarily makes an actual use of one's Subtle body in the dreaming state. But, be it noted, through that body one experiences...
MEHER BABA ON MASTS
All masts are intoxicated with God. They are intoxicated by divine love.
When a normal person is intoxicated by alcohol or drugs, he enjoys this sensation so long as the intoxicant is in sufficient concentration in his physical...
MEHER BABA ON MANDALI
"The Avatar can do all that a Sadguru does. He has and prepares a Circle as a Sadguru does, but he does one special thing also. The Avatar can make a person who is not even in the Circle, or turned to God, a God-realised Salik...
MEHER BABA ON SEX
"Sexual intercourse is the highest type of sensual pleasure in the world. But how long does it last? Only a few minutes.
"If this, the highest of all worldly pleasures, is compared with the real happiness of eternal divine bliss,...
MEHER BABA ON DESTINY
Destiny is the divine law of will which guides one and all from the starting point of evolution to the ultimate goal, God-realisation.
LA p4
There is a course of experience through which every being must pass to realise...
MEHER BABA ON MEDITATION
What is meditation? Generally the word is used to express particular mental efforts and exercises in connection with religious and spiritual ideas. But it is taken recourse to by many a person in the everyday life of the...
The difference between love and intellect
The difference between love and intellect is something like that between night and day; they exist in relation to one another and yet as two different things. Love is real intelligence capable of realising...
ON SPREADING BABA'S MESSAGE OF LOVE AND TRUTH
Eruch Jessawala
Satara
28 September 1955
Baba wants all His lovers to remember one thing: He does not want the Prachar (propaganda) of His name or His message of Love and Truth. Baba is always...
