… I veil myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance, and manifest my glory to a few. My present Avataric form is the last incarnation of this cycle of time, hence my manifestation will be the greatest. When I break my silence, the impact of my love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it.
– Meher Baba [10 July 1958]
Chandi Jaisa Rang Hai Tera. Pankaj Udhas
Live At The Royal Albert Hall Vol. 2, 1984
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The Very Best Of Pankaj Udhas (Live) Vol. 3
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ग़ज़ल:
चाँदी जैसा रंग है तेरा सोने जैसे बाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
हर आँगन में आए तेरे उजले रूप की धूप
छैल-छबेली रानी थोड़ा घूँघटऔर निकाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
भर भर नज़रें देखें तुझ को आते-जाते लोग
देख तुझे बदनाम न कर दे ये हिरनी सी चाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
कितनी सुंदर नार हो कोई मैं आवाज़ न दूँ
तुझ सा जिस का नाम नहीं है वो जी का जंजाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
सामने तू आए तो धड़कें मिल कर लाखों दिल
अब जाना धरती पर कैसे आते हैं भौंचाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
बीच में रंग-महल है तेरा खाई चारों ओर
हम से मिलने की अब गोरी तू ही राह निकाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
कर सकते हैं चाह तेरी अब ‘सरमद’ या ‘मंसूर’
मिले किसी को दार यहाँ और खिंचे किसी की खाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
ये दुनिया है ख़ुद-ग़रज़ों की लेकिन यार ‘क़तील’
तू ने हमारा साथ दिया तो जिए हज़ारों साल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाक़ी सब कंगाल
गीत:
चाँदी जैसा रंग है तेरा सोने जैसे बाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाकी सब कंगाल
जिस रस्ते से तू गुजरे वो फूलों से भर जाये
तेरे पैर की कोमल आहट सोते भाग जगाये
जो पत्थर छू ले गोरी तू वो हीरा बन जाये
तू जिसको मिल जाये वो
तू जिसको मिल जाये वो हो जाये मालामाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाकी सब कंगाल
जो बेरंग हैं उसपर क्या क्या रंग जमाते लोग
तू नादान न जाने कैसे रूप चुराते लोग
नज़रें भर-भर देखें तुझको आते जाते लोग
छैल छबीली रानी थोड़ा
छैल छबीली रानी थोड़ा घूँघट और निकाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाकी सब कंगाल
धनक घटा कलियाँ और तारे सब हैं तेरा रूप
गज़लें हो या गीत हों मेरे सब में तेरा रूप
यूँ ही चमकती रहे हमेशा तेरे हुस्न की धूप
तुझे नज़र ना लगे किसी की
तुझे नज़र ना लगे किसी की जिये हज़ारों साल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाकी सब कंगाल
चाँदी जैसा रंग है तेरा सोने जैसे बाल
एक तू ही धनवान है गोरी बाकी सब कंगाल …
… Age after age, amidst the clamor of disruptions, wars, fear and chaos, rings the Avatar’s Call: “Come all unto me!”
Although, because of the veil of illusion, this call of the Ancient One may appear as a voice in the wilderness, its echo and re-echo nevertheless pervade through time and space, to rouse at first a few, and eventually millions, from their deep slumber of ignorance. And, in the midst of illusion, as the Voice behind all voices, it awakens humanity to bear witness to the manifestation of God amidst mankind.
The time is come. I repeat the call, and bid all to come unto me.
– Meher Baba [12 September 1954]
June 1965,
… After this darshan, Meher Baba had his lovers informed that he wished to remain absolutely undisturbed, and he directed that letters from the East and the West, whether addressed to him or the mandali, would no longer be read to him. An exception was made on 10 June 1965, in response to a letter that had recently arrived from Irwin and Edward Luck in America. Baba had Eruch write them: “Baba wants you to know: A day will come, soon after he breaks his silence, when he will remove the veil and allow his lovers to see the beauty of their Beloved.”
Lord Meher, p. 5160
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August 1955,
… When Baba returned to Satara, he described the darshans to the women, which Mani related to the Westerners:
Although [Ashiana] is small, it was a most loving and touching meeting between Master and lovers — amidst the usual tears, smiles and kisses. Although the latter [kisses] was not on the agenda, an Irani woman started it (as Baba amusedly told us afterwards). The motherly soul planted loud kisses on Baba’s cheeks, forehead and face. It was the needed signal for the others who hadn’t yet dared (because of the recent seclusion and restrictions) — and immediately the crowd broke forward, and soon poor Baba was smothered in kisses from each …
Baba told us of one man — a Hindu — a big man, dressed Western style. He tossed his felt hat away, kissed Baba soul-satisfyingly, stood back, raised his hand to command silence, and made a heartfelt little spontaneous speech of some few sentences, saying there before them all was the One and Only — the Avatar actually in their midst where they could touch him, etc. At the end of which, overcome with emotion, he prostrated fully before Baba …
Later, Baba seemed tired from the long nonstop darshan hours and the two-way tiring journey. How Baba changes at such gatherings — how beautiful — how tireless — radiating his divine Self and Love! Even Baba remarks on that. He told us yesterday [16 August 1955], “They kept repeating over and over again how beautiful I looked.”
Yes, at times like these he lifts from himself the tiniest bit of the veil that hides him from us, so that we lose ourselves completely in the beauty and love of him, worshipping him with the utmost gratitude and depth of our heart.
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… Moths gather where there is light. They seek death by trying to merge the darkness of their futility in the light of purity. No one can escape the light of Illumination when one nears its source. Even one blindfolded in ignorance feels the effect of this light, whose flame burns away the veil.
https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=10
12 September 1954,
… Sarosh then read out in English three of Baba’s messages. The first was the beautiful message “Meher Baba’s Call”:
Age after age, amidst the clamor of disruptions, wars, fear and chaos, rings the Avatar’s Call: “Come all unto me!”
Although, because of the veil of illusion, this call of the Ancient One may appear as a voice in the wilderness, its echo and re-echo nevertheless pervade through time and space, to rouse at first a few, and eventually millions, from their deep slumber of ignorance. And, in the midst of illusion, as the Voice behind all voices, it awakens humanity to bear witness to the manifestation of God amidst mankind.
The time is come. I repeat the call, and bid all to come unto me.
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.
The greatest greatness and the greatest humility go hand in hand, naturally and without effort.
When the Greatest of all says, “I am the Greatest,” it is but a spontaneous expression of an infallible Truth. The strength of his greatness lies, not in raising the dead, but in his great humiliation when he allows himself to be ridiculed, persecuted and crucified at the hands of those who are weak in flesh and spirit. Throughout ages, humanity has failed to fathom the true depth of the humility underlying the greatness of the Avatar, gauging his divinity by its religious standards. Even real saints and sages, who have some knowledge of the Truth, have failed to understand the Avatar’s greatness when faced with his real humility.
Age after age, history repeats itself when men and women, in their ignorance, limitations and pride, sit in judgment over the God-incarnated Man who declares his Godhood, and condemn him for uttering the Truths they cannot understand. He is indifferent to abuse and persecution for in his true compassion he understands, in his continual experience of Reality he knows, and in his infinite mercy he forgives.
God is all. God knows all. God does all. When the Avatar proclaims he is the Ancient One, it is God who proclaims his manifestation on earth. When man utters for or against the Avatarhood, it is God who speaks through him. It is God alone who declares himself through the Avatar and mankind.
I tell you all with my divine authority that you and I are not “we” but “One.” You unconsciously feel my Avatarhood within you; I consciously feel in you what each of you feel. 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.
There is nothing but God. He is the only Reality, and we all are one in the indivisible Oneness of this absolute Reality. When the one who had realized God says, “I am God, you are God, and we all are one,” and also awakens this feeling of Oneness in his illusion-bound selves, then the question of the lowly and the great, the poor and the rich, the humble and the modest, and the good and the bad, vanishes.
Pay heed when I say with my divine authority that the Oneness of Reality is so uncompromisingly unlimited and all-pervading that not only “We are One,” but even this collective term of “we” has no place in the Infinite, Indivisible Oneness.
Awaken from your ignorance, and try at least to understand that in the uncompromisingly Indivisible Oneness, not only is the Avatar God, but also the ant and the sparrow, just as one and all of you are nothing but God. The only apparent difference is in the states of consciousness. The Avatar knows that that which is a sparrow is not a sparrow; whereas, the sparrow does not realize this and, being ignorant of its ignorance, remains a sparrow.
Live not in ignorance. Do not waste your precious life span in differentiating and judging your fellow men, but learn to long for the love of God. Even in the midst of your worldly activities, live only to find and realize your true Identity with your Beloved God.
Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of divine love. Yearn for this gift sincerely and intensely, and I promise, in the name of my divine honesty, that I will give you much more than you yearn for.
I give you all my blessing that the spark of my divine love may implant in your hearts the deep longing for love of God.
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“Meher Baba’s Universal Message” [10 July 1958]:
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 God’s words makes the Avatar’s teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged crusades in his name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.
Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form I observe silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them. To get nearer and nearer to God you have to get further and further away from I, “my,” “me” and “mine.” You have not to renounce anything but your own self. It is as simple as that, though found to be almost impossible. It is possible for you to renounce your limited self by my grace. I have come to release that grace.
I repeat, I lay down no precepts. When I release the tide of Truth which I have come to give, men’s daily lives will be the living precept. The words I have not spoken will come to life in them.
I veil myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance, and manifest my glory to a few. My present Avataric form is the last incarnation of this cycle of time, hence my manifestation will be the greatest.
When I break my silence, the impact of my love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage in his own way. I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of my silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.
All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.
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… On the 8th[January 1928], Baba composed this couplet:
Who weeps for love, he weeps the best.
Who cries for else, he does but jest.
Later, while discoursing to the boys about the purpose of creation, Baba gave an example of a palace:
Suppose there is a palace and inside it is seated a king. The palace has one door, but no windows. It stands on three pillars. It has seven walls: one of iron, another of zinc, the third of silver, the fourth of gold, the fifth of stone, the sixth of wood, and the seventh of pearls.
In front of the palace is a compound in which there are three ponds: one is filled with water, the second with milk, and in the third is rosewater. A little in front of these ponds is a lane. There are seven tigers guarding the lane.
At the end of the lane is a garden full of sweet-smelling flowers. Above each section of flowers is a canopy; coiled on top of each canopy is a snake.
Coming out of the garden you face a desert you have to cross. After crossing the desert you face a river you have to cross. On the other side of the river is a city, and then finished [you reach the end].
Baba concluded, “If you understand this example, the whole Vedanta will be intellectually revealed to you.”
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20 March 1954,
… Pleased with Rustom Kaka’s melodious voice, Baba, at 1:20 P.M., told him, “When there was nothing but the Beyond, Beyond state of God, some urge made me sing to know ‘Who Am I?’ And that has made me bear the burden of the whole creation! Now, once again, I will sing that Song and become free. This is a fact.”
To explain about “the seventh shadow,” Baba asked Gulmai to try to speak through her closed mouth, and when she did it, the sound that came out resembled “Om.”
Baba said:
This sound of “Om” that has emanated from Gulmai’s mouth is the seventh shadow of the Original Sound. Were anyone to hear this Original Sound, he would really go mad and begin tearing his clothes. This Sound can be heard on the fifth plane.
These days, Kaikobad is having wonderful experiences. He actually sees the sun and the moon coming out of his eyes and passing through his body — Baba in their midst. At times, he becomes dazed; but such an experience is a spiritual phenomenon [not Realization].
I am not as you see me. Only the Truth is real, and everything else is nothing. The human ego cannot visualize spiritual experience. It is all so simple to grasp, but its very simplicity makes it infinitely difficult. This self itself is ignorant of Self; and, how can “ignorance” — the human ego — experience Knowledge — the Real I. Even if one of you understands it, I will be very happy.
Why can’t this be understood? The reason is that he who gains divine consciousness comes down to normal consciousness and is simultaneously on every level and on every plane. Just as I am now on your level, which means that I am like you. I talk like you, sit on the ground like you; but, at the same time, I am on all levels of consciousness. One who has consciousness of a particular level finds me on his respective plane. Those on a higher level see me there. But, there is a difference in seeing. Yet ultimately, when Knowledge dawns, it is found that everything is illusion, because I am the One in all.
This is all illusion and a zero! A zero has value if linked to a number; otherwise, as zero, it is a big zero!
Baba then addressed Godavri: “By the end of this year, I will surely drop my body. There will be a great spiritual upheaval when I break my silence and drop my body. But I will come back after 700 years when Maharaj will have to come back to bestow on me my Ancient State.”
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June 1924,
… Gulmai would comb Baba’s hair, which had grown quite long. He would remark to Mehera how finely Gulmai combed his hair. Gulmai continued this duty as long as she was in Quetta. In her absence, Gustadji would attend to it. Later Mehera was given this special duty, which she continued until the end.
One day Rusi arranged an outing for the men and women at a nearby mountain. Baba scaled it as nimbly as if he were a deer; but none of the mandali, despite their best efforts, could reach the top. Standing on the mountain, Baba appeared majestic, as if he were unveiling his blissful radiance to humanity and declaring that the goal of life was to always be happy! The rays of the sun kissed Baba’s lovely feet in worship, and the breeze gently smoothed back his golden hair, revealing to the world a tiny bit of his divine image.
“How beautiful he looks!” Age declared.
Like the Indian red-legged partridge enamored by the moon, the mandali gazed at Baba in wonder and adoration from their positions below him. The wind of love blew through their hearts and their eyes were moist with joyous tears. The rays of his roving glance touched and pierced their hearts. All were wounded by the tender penetration of his sight. They were so attracted to him, they could not look away. His photograph was taken, but how could a camera capture divinity’s visage? His splendor was marvelous and only the pure of heart could see its haloed glow.
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Meher Songs 