… My sahavasees who came with love and resignation to my will had the utmost happiness of receiving far and above what they expected. Likewise, with you all, I may give you more, much more than you expect — or maybe nothing, and that nothing may prove everything. So I say, come with open hearts to receive much or nothing from your Divine Beloved. Come prepared to receive not so much of my words, but of my silence. My love to you each and all.
– Meher Baba
… The one who receives my love is completely ruined in the eyes of the world. To receive love, you have to lose everything — even your own self! You have to give up all desires to such an extent that you become dead to yourself and the world. Then you are eligible to receive love. Rarely has one the longing to receive love. I am the Ocean of love. I am ready to give love to such a one, but where is the one to receive it? No one is ready, as he should always be, to receive love.
-Meher Baba [8 May 1960]
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
जब तबीअ’त किसी पर आती है
मौत के दिन क़रीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
मुझ से मिलना फिर आप का मिलना
आप किस को नसीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
ज़ुल्म सह कर जो उफ़ नहीं करते
उन के दिल भी अजीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
इश्क़ में और कुछ नहीं मिलता
सैकड़ों ग़म नसीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
‘नूह’ की क़द्र कोई क्या जाने
कहीं ऐसे अदीब होते हैं
वो बड़े ख़ुश-नसीब होते हैं
आप जिन के क़रीब होते हैं
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8 May 1960,
… Later a visitor requested that Baba give him his blessings. Baba replied:
It is very easy for me to give blessings.
It is very difficult for me to give love.
It is very, very rare for me to bestow grace. Why?
It is very easy for me to give blessings, because you are eager to receive them. The necessary receptivity is already there. But it is not so with love, because no one really wants to receive it as it should be received.
The “warmth” of love is so unbearable that one who receives it has his whole being “blistered” and “blasted!” If you withstand this, your heart becomes clean. Then it is filled with love.
The one who receives my love is completely ruined in the eyes of the world. To receive love, you have to lose everything — even your own self! You have to give up all desires to such an extent that you become dead to yourself and the world. Then you are eligible to receive love. Rarely has one the longing to receive love. I am the Ocean of love. I am ready to give love to such a one, but where is the one to receive it? No one is ready, as he should always be, to receive love.
As for my grace, I bestow it when I get the whim to do so. Grace means grace, and it is perfectly independent of merits and demerits. When grace descends, instantaneously you become what you ever are — God. But this is very rare.
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April 1958,
… Good Friday was on 4 April 1958. That morning, Baba suddenly expressed that he wanted to be driven to Udtara to visit the site of the second automobile accident. “See that you take me to the exact spot, but be careful not to cross beyond the accident spot,” he warned Kohiyar, who was driving. Eruch, Bhau, Savak and Jalbhai went with them.
Kohiyar later related: “Stopping a few feet before the spot, Baba ordered us to get out of the car. Baba then hobbled along and across the road to and fro, some three times, as if to draw an imaginary border line. He stated, ‘I do not want to step even a single step from here to the Satara side.’ Baba pointed out the field on the opposite side of the accident spot where he had played cricket with the mandali.”
After slowly pacing up and down on the road, Baba returned to Mahabaleshwar.
Kohiyar was to manage Shapoor Hall as a guest house after Baba’s departure. One day Baba asked him why he had not hung a picture of Baba in the reception office and placed some of Baba’s books and literature there. Kohiyar had been doing so at other places he managed, but was reluctant to do so again after he saw one of the guests use a Baba pamphlet to clean up her infant child’s “accident.”
Kohiyar explained, “After I saw your literature being used as toilet paper, I decided it was useless to put your pamphlet or picture in public places.”
Baba replied, “Why get upset over these petty things? A time will come when you will see my pictures in the filthiest places, in back alleys even. It will be on [postage] stamps badly defaced, on matchboxes, and on the labels of cheap brands of food. So why be disturbed? I also live in the filthiest of places and am in the filthiest of things.”
The next day, Baba remarked, “The Eternally Changeless One resides in everything that eternally changes.”
On 12 April, Baba dictated this message for those lovers attending his upcoming sahavas in America and Australia:
I am coming to America and Australia solely to give my sahavas to my lovers, and I want each of you to come with the longing to receive just that. Above all, I want this sahavas to be a close companionship between your Beloved and his lovers. If you wish to maintain this unique relationship, then do not come with questions or the desire to seek discourses and explanations. Come with the preparedness to receive fully whatever I give you, with the thought of being completely resigned to my will.
My suffering is daily becoming more intense, and my health is daily growing worse, but my physical body continues to bear the burden of it all. Despite it all, I will hold the sahavas. I expect from you a deep understanding of my self-imposed suffering which is begotten of my compassion and love for mankind. Also understand, therefore, that I will not undergo medical examinations or treatment for my injured hip either in America or Australia. No doctor or treatment will be of any help before the pain I am undergoing has served its purpose. Remember that my coming is entirely to give my sahavas to you all.
This sahavas will be unique in the sense that you will witness and share my present Universal suffering by being near me as my fortunate companions — being with the Ancient One who will, at the same time, be completely on the human level with you. It will be helpful to all those participating in the sahavas to know of the oft-repeated hint I have given to those living with me — reminding them of my Declaration, wherein I stated that my glorification will follow my humiliation, and pointing out that this period of my sahavas will fall within the orbit of my universal suffering and helplessness.
A similar circular was sent out prior to the Meherabad Sahavas in February. My sahavasees who came with love and resignation to my will had the utmost happiness of receiving far and above what they expected. Likewise, with you all, I may give you more, much more than you expect — or maybe nothing, and that nothing may prove everything. So I say, come with open hearts to receive much or nothing from your Divine Beloved. Come prepared to receive not so much of my words, but of my silence. My love to you each and all.
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Meher Songs 