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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
I am everything that you take me to be, and I am also beyond everything.
What Baba Means by Real Work (1954)
Thus every one of us is Avatar, in the sense that everyone and everything is everyone and everything, at the same time, and for all time.
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
The only Real Renunciation is that which abandons, even in the midst of worldly duties, all selfish thoughts and desires.
Discourses (1967)
Do not propagate what you do not feel. What your heart says and your conscience dictates about me, pour out without hesitation.
What Baba Means by Real Work (1954)
The only Real Control is the discipline of the senses to abstain from indulgence in low desires, which alone ensures absolute purity of character.
Discourses (1967)
This realisation must and does take place only in the midst of life, for it is only in the midst of life that limitation can be experienced and transcended, and that subsequent freedom from limitation can be enjoyed.
Discourses (1967)
The Avatar draws upon Himself the universal suffering, but He is sustained under the stupendous burden by His Infinite Bliss and His infinite sense of humour.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
It is God Who acts, and God Who reacts. It is He Who scoffs, and He Who responds. He is the Creator, the Producer, the Actor and the Audience in His own Divine Play.
God knows everything, God does everything, and that nothing happens but by the Will of God. Therefore it is God who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar.
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this Love, all things — body, mind, position, welfare and even life itself — are sacrificed.
Discourses (1967)
The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity — when He deems it absolutely necessary from His all — encompassing point of view.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
I am never silent. I speak eternally.
If I were to say every one of you is an Avatar, a few would be tickled, and many would consider it a blasphemy or a joke. The fact that God being One, Indivisible and equally in us all, we can be nought else but one, is too much for the duality-conscious mind to accept.
Illusion has such a tight grip on you that you forget Reality. Your life is a Shadow. The only Reality is Existence Eternal — which is GOD.
What Baba Means by Real Work (1954)
When we say he has created this illusion, we lower him and his infinity. He is beyond all this.
Only when we find him in ourselves, and even in our day to day life, do all doubts vanish.
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
I am the Avatar of this Age!
Lord Meher (1986)