“The only place that can hold Me is the heart. Keep Me close with you. I am always there.”
– Meher Baba
When my universal religion of love is on the verge of fading into insignificance, I come to breathe life into it, and to do away with the farce of dogmas that defile it in the name of religions, and stifle it with ceremonies and rituals.
– Meher Baba (30 September 1954)
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Likh Diya Apne Dar Pe Kisi Ne
Written by: Qateel Shifai
Sung by: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwal Party
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लिख दिया अपने दर पे किसी ने, इस जगह प्यार करना मना है
प्यार अगर हो भी जाए किसी को, इसका इज़हार करना मना है
उनकी महफ़िल में जब कोई जाये, पहले नज़रें वो अपनी झुकाए
वो सनम जो खुदा बन गये हैं, उनका दीदार करना मना है
जाग उठेंगे तो आहें भरेंगे हुस्न वालों को रुस्वा करेंगे
सो गए हैं जो फ़ुर्क़त के मारे उनको बेदार करना मना है
हमने की अर्ज़ ऐ बंदा-परवर, क्यूँ सितम ढा रहे हो ये हम पर
बात सुन कर हमारी वो बोले, हमसे तकरार करना मना है
सामने जो खुला है झरोखा, खा न जाना ‘क़तील’ उनका धोखा
अब भी अपने लिए उस गली में, शौक-ए-दीदार करना मना है
-क़तील शिफ़ाई
February 1941,
. . . On Sunday, 5 February, Meher Baba again departed from Jaipur for Delhi to contact masts with Chanji and Gustadji. At the Delhi station, Baba and Gustadji sat near the telegraph office, while Chanji went to look for Kaka, who was arriving by a different train.
Minoo Kharas of Karachi had suddenly been ordered to go to Delhi on official police work, and Chanji was shocked to see him standing on the platform. Since Baba was traveling incognito, as per his standing order, Minoo covered his eyes when he saw Baba and turned away. Chanji asked him to help find Kaka and then leave, without meeting Baba. “It’s a torture!” Minoo pleaded to Chanji — but he obeyed.
Baba and the mandali stayed the night at the Regal Hotel, and early the next morning, Chanji was sent to Minoo’s hotel next door with a message from Baba. Minoo was to accompany Chanji late that night to contact a mast at the Jama Masjid, which he did.
Jal Kerawalla, also, arrived in Delhi and accompanied Baba around the city looking for masts. Baba’s most significant contact was with Hafizji Nabeena, the spiritual chargeman of Delhi, whom he had contacted previously in 1939. Baba spent three hours searching for him on the morning of the 6th and went out again that afternoon, at which time the totally naked mast was located. Baba was very happy with the work done.
Baba next journeyed to Saharanpur, Lucknow and Benares, sending Chanji back to Jaipur. He contacted masts in these cities also and afterward left for Calcutta.
From Calcutta, contacting masts along the way, Baba went south to Jagannath Puri on the 11th, where Baidul and Savak were waiting for him. Baba contacted masts there, and then, accompanied only by Baidul, left for Waltair and Madras. Gustadji and Savak were sent back to Jaipur.
Adi Sr., after not seeing Baba for many months, had been ordered to come to Madras. He met Baba there on Thursday, 13 February 1941 in his Vauxhall car. Jal Kerawalla had come with him. They immediately left at one that afternoon in Adi’s car for Ramnad, where Baba was again to contact the revered saint and mast, Pallukollah Baba, who Baba indicated was between the sixth and seventh planes.
Baba gave Adi as much tea as he wanted to fortify him for the long drive. The following is Adi’s recollection of the event:
The cups of tea no doubt gave me a nerve stimuli, but none so invigorating as the dynamic presence of Baba himself in the car. The depressing memory of my stay at Bangalore ever since Baba’s departure in April of 1940 — a long, tiresome and soul-enervating period the likes of which I never experienced before — faded into nothingness before the radiance of his sunny smile, his familiar gestures and his loving remarks by means of the alphabet board.
Baba told Adi, “The mast at Ramnad is the most important in India. He is the king of all masts, and it is a very significant stage of my contact with masts to be contacting him again. You are lucky to be with me on my birthday [the following day], driving me on this important errand.”
They reached Trichinopoly at nine in the evening and continued driving throughout the night, stopping at a dak bungalow to rest from 3:00 to 6:00 A.M. Baidul slept near Baba on the verandah and Adi and Jal slept in the car. They started again and at 8:00 A.M. reached Kilakkarai (ten miles from Ramnad, the southernmost part of India) where Pallukollah Baba stayed.
Baba ordered the men to fast until his contact with the old mast was over. Baba fed Pallukollah a little food and sat with him, but for only ten minutes. However, he indicated that he was greatly pleased with the contact.
They immediately began their return trip to Madras at nine that morning, reaching there at midnight. Baba directed Adi to drive back to Bangalore in his car, and Baba proceeded to Chanda by train, accompanied by Baidul and Jal Kerawalla. Baba contacted a fifth-plane mast in Chanda named Lohewala Baba, who lived deep in a forest. This mast gathered junked iron pieces from the railway salvage yard and hung them high in the treetops of the forest.
Baba went to Nagpur, where he contacted more masts. Then they boarded a train for Delhi, where they would take another train to Jaipur.
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Ai Ishq Ye Sab Duniya Wale
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ऐ इश्क़ ये सब दुनिया वाले बे-कार की बातें करते हैं
पायल के ग़मों का इल्म नहीं झंकार की बातें करते हैं
हर दिल में छुपा है तीर कोई हर पाँव में है ज़ंजीर कोई
पूछे कोई इन से ग़म के मज़े जो प्यार की बातें करते हैं
उल्फ़त के नए दीवानों को किस तरह से कोई समझाए
नज़रों पे लगी है पाबंदी दीदार की बातें करते हैं
भँवरे हैं अगर मदहोश तो क्या परवाने भी हैं ख़ामोश तो क्या
सब प्यार के नग़्मे गाते हैं सब यार की बातें करते हैं
– शकील बदायुनी
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
Music Director: Naushad
Lyricist: Shakeel Badayuni
“The only place that can hold Me is the heart. Keep Me close with you. I am always there.”
– Meher Baba
Lord Meher, page 4699
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If, instead of erecting churches, fire-temples, mandirs [temples] and mosques, people were to establish the House of God in their hearts for their Beloved God, my work will have been done. If, instead of performing ceremonies and rituals mechanically as age-old customs, people were to serve their fellow beings with the selflessness of love, taking God to be equally residing in one and all, and thinking that by serving others they are serving God, my work will have been fulfilled.
– Meher Baba (27 February 1954)
Lord Meher, page 3490
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When my universal religion of love is on the verge of fading into insignificance, I come to breathe life into it, and to do away with the farce of dogmas that defile it in the name of religions, and stifle it with ceremonies and rituals.
– Meher Baba (30 September 1954)
Lord Meher, page 3639
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