… Hold on to my daaman, even if it amounts to hell and heaven becoming one!
– Meher Baba
गुलशन की फ़क़त फूलों से नहीं काँटों से भी ज़ीनत होती है
जीने के लिए इस दुनिया में ग़म की भी ज़रूरत होती है
हर शाम-ओ-सहर क़ुर्बां जिस पर दुनिया-ए-मसर्रत होती है
वो पैकर-ए-राहत क्या जाने कैसी शब-ए-फ़ुर्क़त होती है
ऐ वाइज़-ए-नादाँ करता है तू एक क़यामत का चर्चा
यहाँ रोज़ निगाहें मिलती हैं यहाँ रोज़ क़यामत होती है
करना ही पड़ेगा ज़ब्त-ए-अलम पीने ही पड़ेंगे ये आँसू
फ़रियाद-ओ-फ़ुग़ाँ से ऐ नादाँ तौहीन-ए-मोहब्बत होती है
वो पुर्सिश-ए-ग़म को आए हैं कुछ कह न सकूँ चुप रह न सकूँ
ख़ामोश रहूँ तो मुश्किल है कह दूँ तो शिकायत होती है
ऐ दोस्त जुदाई में तेरी कुछ ऐसे भी लम्हे आते हैं
सेजों पे भी तड़पा करता हूँ काँटों पे भी राहत होती है
जो आ के रुके दामन पे ‘सबा’ वो अश्क नहीं है पानी है
जो अश्क न छलके आँखों से उस अश्क की क़ीमत होती है
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April 1960,
… On Friday, 29 April 1960, about 50 lovers and devotees arrived from Calcutta, Jabalpur and Hamirpur. To a group from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Baba said:
The untold Infinite Treasure is within you. The only problem is that you do not seek it within you. You look without. This has been your habit from your apparent birth in the Beginningless Beyond.
The moment you awaken from sleep, you start looking outside of yourself. On the Path, as you begin to look within, you see some sparks of the Treasure. But these are just the shadows of the Real Treasure.
The Perfect Master has the key that opens the last gate which leads to and opens this Infinite Treasure. To aspire to have a look at, or to become one with, the Infinite Treasure — God — is in a way sheer madness. It has to be that degree of madness which remains unaffected by the most alluring pleasures or the most sorrowful pains. The infinitely affectionate “look” — nazar — of the Perfect Master can awaken such “madness.” But for this, you have to lead a life according to the Master’s instructions with complete resignation to his will. It makes no difference whether you are physically near or away from him.
[Someone interrupted Baba with a question.] When you are in my company, be fully attentive and receptive to what I dictate without questioning. Love me and be silent. Pampering of the intellect brings forth innumerable questions. All these questions of the mind can be answered, but that is hardly spiritually indispensable. Mere intellectual explanations will not take you out of the internal muddle, but will puzzle you all the more. Very rare persons have the necessary acumen.
Try to grasp what I have already said. The more you love me, the less you question. Love answers all questions, for it ignores questioning itself.
Hold on to my daaman, even if it amounts to hell and heaven becoming one! Worry not about the conflicting thoughts, but be aware that your grip has firmly clasped my daaman. Let not the grip be loosened in any event.
To demand anything from the Beloved is an insult to love. Love only gives and goes on giving until the Will of the Beloved alone manifests through the lover.
Beauty and love are linked. There is always a sweet tussle in the heart of a lover between God’s beauty and love. God’s beauty and love demand sacrifice and total surrender. The lover of God has to do whatever the Beloved wants.
One of the mandali told Baba that he had trouble giving a satisfactory answer to one of his friends when the latter asked him, “What is God?”
“You should have counter-questioned him, ‘What is not God?’ ” Baba said. “The answer is so simple.”
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May 1967,
… Adi came to Guruprasad on 8 May 1967 and gave Baba an update on his work. Deshmukh arrived the same day and saw Baba. On the 15th and 16th Dr. Dikshit was called to take X-rays, as Baba was experiencing a painful catch in his back. Dr. K. C. Gharpure, a surgeon at Sassoon Hospital, was called several times for the same complaint.
Goher’s mother Khorshed’s condition was becoming worse. Alu Khambatta had been enlisted to help the family look after her. Baba was informed on 16 May, and through Goher he conveyed a message to her parents to “remember him constantly, take his name and do not worry.” On the 23rd, just as Khorshed was passing through a crisis, a phone call from Baba came to Adi, informing him that Khorshed would drop her body when Baba willed it, and that he was pleased with the efforts of all those who were attending her.
Khorshed died the following day at 2:00 P.M., and Baba had this message phoned to her husband Rusi Pop in Ahmednagar:
Dear Khorshed has come to me to rest eternally in my love. You be brave and be resigned to my Divine Will. I will call you when I return to Meherazad. My love-blessing to you and the family and Alu [Khambatta].”
In a letter from Guruprasad two days later, Eruch conveyed:
Beloved Baba wants all his dear lovers to note that by November end 1967 there will be many new swamis and babas appearing on the world screen, and as such he wants all his lovers to keep away from them. Baba’s standing instructions to his lovers regarding such persons should not be forgotten or ignored. Baba wants his lovers to beware!
Baba reminds his lovers to hold his daaman firmly. As the time of his manifestation approaches, there will be circumstances and situations which might make his lovers lose the grip over his daaman. Hence, time and again, he sends out reminders to his lovers at the slightest excuse. He says the time — that time of which he has so often told us — is now right at the threshold of his manifestation!
Baba wants all his lovers to know that it is time they should know that it is not only useless to wander about from door to door meeting and seeing swamis and babas but it is also very harmful.
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… In 1963, Baba often repeated that he would break his silence at the end of nine months. On the morning of 25 May, he compared the nine months before his silence ended to the nine-month gestation period when a child is carried in the mother’s womb, and stated:
Wherever we turn now we find depression, confusion, conflict. It is nothing but a sign that I will soon break my silence and release a fresh dispensation of Truth.
After I return to Meherazad, there will be an increase in pain and suffering, mental torture and chaos, the world over. It will be a reflection of the suffering I will undergo during the nine months, reaching its height at the time of “delivery” — the breaking of my silence. Then will come the birth, when both “mother and baby” will get relief.
The time is coming, and it is very close in arriving, when I will shake everything off me. That is why I keep saying, let your hold on my daaman be very strong. So in the coming nine months at your disposal, engage yourselves in spreading my message of love, and trying your utmost to live the life you ask others to live. You must live what you say; otherwise, the best thing would be to keep your mouth shut!
There can be no compromise. My lovers should be 100 percent honest in spreading my message of Love and Truth. Don’t let any hypocrisy enter into it! Don’t let jealousy or backbiting creep into it, or the thing will be spoilt. If you travel about to do my work and cannot afford to do so by jet plane, or train, or car, or even a bullock cart, then go about on foot. But whatever work you do for Baba, do it honestly. Don’t think you are doing the work. It is done by God’s will.
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Meher Songs 