… For ages, I have been giving in silence my silent message of love. You ask me for a message from my silence, but silent are the words of my silence. Silent is love, and the lover loves my silence and silently adores me in my silence.
– Meher Baba
… If you love Me, let that love not be wasted by escaping through your lips in words. It is an insult to real love if and when such love happens to be deliberately exhibited.
You have to be very particular about the purity of heart, you talk of love but it is not easy to love. You should love God in such a way that apart from others not knowing about it, you yourself are not aware of it.
– Meher Baba
… Worldly pain and unhappiness are nothing but the outcome of mental weakness. In fact, no one in the world really suffers except those who thirst to have sight of the Divine Beloved. They feel like a fish flopping about out of water.
– Meher Baba
… Remember, whosoever forms a friendship with Me, loses everything, even the self!
– Meher Baba
उल्फ़त का जब किसी ने लिया नाम रो पड़े
अपनी वफ़ा का सोच के अंजाम रो पड़े
हर शाम ये सवाल मोहब्बत से क्या मिला
हर शाम ये जवाब के हर शाम रो पड़े
राह-ए-वफ़ा में हमको ख़ुशी की तलाश थी
दो गाम ही चले थे के हर गाम रो पड़े
रोना नसीब में है तो औरों से क्या गिला
अपने ही सर लिया कोई इल्ज़ाम रो पड़े
‘फ़ाकिर’ मिला न कोई भी अश्कों की राह में
तनहा हर एक मक़ाम पे गुमनाम रो पड़े
Ulfat Ka Jab Kisi Ne Liya Naam,
Jagjit Singh Live, Kenya 1970s
https://youtu.be/ZzL0YHtd8dI
27 January 1963,
… That afternoon, there was an “unscheduled” visitor. His name was Shiavux Golwala. He was an older boarding-school classmate of Adi Sr. from his days at Panchgani Parsi High School. He lived in a remote area of Dahanu, about 80 miles outside Bombay, and had not left the property in many years. When Golwala arrived, he was wearing a Baba locket pinned to his coat, which Baba had given him in 1926. Although he had not seen Baba since then, and had no further contact with Baba or his lovers, he began having the irresistible urge to see Baba again. He would tell people that he wanted someone to take him to see Meher Baba, but no one was prepared to do so on account of his age and feeble condition.
Two younger Parsi men who were staying nearby, however, were going to Shirdi to pay homage at the tomb of Sai Baba. They took pity on the old man and offered to take him at least to Shirdi, if not to Meher Baba in Ahmednagar, 35 miles away. The old man was immensely pleased. But once they arrived at Shirdi and paid their respects there, they told the Parsi that they had decided to return to Dahanu. The old man reacted angrily and said that they had promised to take him to Meher Baba. He would not budge from Shirdi, even if he had to die there!
The men realized that the old man was adamant, so they brought him to Ahmednagar, where they met Adi at Khushru Quarters. Adi directed them to Meherazad, but when they arrived at noon and Baba had already gone for lunch. Aloba greeted them and explained that it was not possible for Baba to see them now, and that they should come back at four o’clock. So they drove back to Ahmednagar.
But that afternoon, Baba came back to mandali hall at 2:00 P.M. When he came to know about the old man, he was very displeased with Aloba for turning them away (although Aloba had been acting according to standing instructions from Baba). Aloba said, “Baba, it was your order not to disturb you, so I told them to come back at four o’clock.” Baba was not placated and severely took all to task for two hours, complaining bitterly against them for their lack of consideration. Baba appeared anxious and restless, asking the mandali again and again whether the person would return.
The three men returned at four o’clock and Golwala flung himself at Baba’s feet and sobbed with joy. Baba embraced him and expressed great happiness at seeing him. Baba made the old man sit beside him on a chair, and he talked with him for some time before allowing him to depart.
The two younger men who had accompanied the old man, bowed at Baba’s feet and confessed, “We did not intend to bring him here. But it was our good fortune that we came and had your darshan.” The two companions were deeply reverent and impressed, and one told Baba, “Nothing could dissuade the old man from coming to see you, in spite of the repeated Nos! from everyone. And now, through him, we too have been blessed with your darshan despite your seclusion.”
As Golwala was leaving, he patted Baba and said, “Bless you, Baba. May you live long! May you live long for the sake of this work — for the sake of us all, your children. May you live many, many years, for you alone are the Savior and hope of this world!”
He embraced Eruch and some of the other mandali, and said, “Preserve him [Baba] like a flower. Make him dearer to you than your own life. Look after him, serve him well, for he is the Malik [Owner] of the universe — and by serving him you all will be immortal, too.”
It was such a touching scene that some of the mandali themselves were moved to tears.
Baba was radiantly happy at the man’s visit, and after he had gone, he remarked to the mandali, “Here is a man who came to ask for nothing, but simply to give me love and a ‘blessing’ for the world. All these years I have been waiting for someone to bless me and at last, today, that old Parsi did!”
The man spoke with tears of love and with such deep sincerity that afterwards Baba told the women, “The old man’s prayer must come true, for it has come from the core of his heart, and God is bound to hear that!”
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LOSS IS GAIN
Eruch Jessawala
During darshan tours I used to spend much time interpreting Meher Baba’s gestures but quite often he would send me to deliver messages to certain individuals, and the circumstance of my being away from Baba prompted people on many occasions to ask me questions like, how many years had I spent in Baba’s company and the one inevitable question, “What have you gained by being with Baba for so many years?”
I was deeply embarrassed that I could never answer this latter question.
However, one day Baba found me deeply troubled and when He enquired what was on my mind, I told Him about the question I was unable to answer.
Baba then replied, “The reason you cannot answer that question is that it is a bad question. The question should not be ‘What have you gained by being with Me?’ but rather, ‘What have you lost?'”
It was then that I began to understand what Baba had said so often, “Remember, whosoever forms a friendship with Me, loses everything, even the self!”
He also used to put it this way, “You go, then I come.”
THE ANCIENT ONE, p. 116
https://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/whatgain.html
LOVE ME SILENTLY
If you love Me, let that love not be wasted by escaping through your lips in words. It is an insult to real love if and when such love happens to be deliberately exhibited.
You have to be very particular about the purity of heart, you talk of love but it is not easy to love. You should love God in such a way that apart from others not knowing about it, you yourself are not aware of it.
For you to bow down to Me, to perform My Arti to Worship Me is not what I have come for amongst you. I expect much from you. I have come to receive your love from you and to bestow My Love on you. Love others as you would love your self and all that is yours.
If you feel for others in the same way as you feel for your dear ones, you love God.
– Meher Baba
Meher Baba Calling, page 48
https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/700734.pdf
… When milk is being heated, it overflows the vessel when boiling. But when you begin boiling in my love, you should boil within and not overflow like milk for outward show. Love is not a thing to be told or expressed to anyone. It is a secret to be kept.
– Meher Baba
http://lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=3832
… Love, deep down, is calm like the depth of the ocean. Shallow waters show disturbance on the surface.
– Meher Baba
https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=4033
… It is very difficult to control tears which stream down the cheeks without your being aware of them. Tears are not bad, but if you could succeed in restraining them, you will find greater joy in the inner companionship with your Beloved. The spiritual path is closely connected with feelings; that’s true. However, this does not mean that inner passion should be exposed through an outer display, such as the shedding of tears. Someone who has a pure and sensitive heart may even feel that he should weep for years and years in the memory of his Beloved. However, if you can experience within your heart a continuous and deep longing for the Beloved, without any external sign, so much the better. Weep within continuously; outwardly remain normal and cheerful.
– Meher Baba [November 1952]
GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN, MEHER BABA
Vol. 3, pp. 165-168, by Bal Natu
https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Glimpses_Three_P2.pdf
12 September 1954,
… Continuing, Sarosh read a third message explaining Baba’s silence and “How To Love God”:
If you were to ask me why I do not speak, I would say I am not silent, and that I speak more eloquently through gestures and the alphabet board.
If you were to ask me why I do not talk, I would say, mostly for three reasons. Firstly, I feel that through you all I am talking eternally.
Secondly, to relieve the boredom of talking incessantly through your forms, I keep silence in my personal physical form. And thirdly, all talk in itself is idle talk. Lectures, messages, statements, discourses of any kind, spiritual or otherwise, imparted through utterances or writings, is just idle talk when not acted upon or lived up to.
If you were to ask when I will break my silence, I would say, when I feel like uttering the only real Word that was spoken in the beginningless beginning, as that Word alone is worth uttering. The time for breaking of my outward silence to utter that Word, is very near.
When a person tells others, “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. When he says, “Be brave, honest and pure,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that the speaker himself is all that, while they are cowards, dishonest and unclean.
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
If instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.
If instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others, we are loving God.
If we suffer in the suffering of others, and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
If instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of ourselves [as] more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.
If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will, we are loving God.
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of all life is to love God, and find Him as our own Self.
After this reading, Baba started distributing prasad. Men and women formed into separate long lines, and the mandali and police kept order. At times, the men’s row would be allowed to go forward to receive prasad; at times, the women’s row. Age watched and proclaimed, “This was no ordinary distribution of prasad. With it, Meher Baba was giving himself to each one so that they might establish his seat in their heart. In every heart, the darkness of maya envelops the Light of God. By giving prasad, Baba was proclaiming dawn’s arrival, whereby, gradually, his Light might absorb the darkness!”
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“For ages, I have been giving in silence my silent message of love. You ask me for a message from my silence, but silent are the words of my silence. Silent is love, and the lover loves my silence and silently adores me in my silence.”
– Meher Baba
https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=4498
Meher Songs 