We need help to meet the expenses for Bhau’s visit. Donations are greatly appreciated to help with funding Bhau and his team’s airfare and accommodations. [...]]]>

Meherana Spring 2010 Events

Bhau Kalchuri visits Meherana!

Meherana is happy to announce a visit by Bhau Kalchuri – 20^th May through 30^th June , 2010

We need help to meet the expenses for Bhau’s visit. Donations are greatly appreciated to help with funding Bhau and his team’s airfare and accommodations. For those who feel they would like to help with Bhau’s trip expenses, please send donations to Meherana with a notation that the funds are for Bhau’s trip to:

Meherana

P.O. Box 1997

Mariposa CA 93558

All are welcome to stay at Meherana during Bhau’s six-week stay. Tea talks! Internet Chats! Hiking! Daily Artis! Music! Community Dinners! Please join us for this special time with Bhau. If you are planning to attend please email reservations@meherana.org or kebi@zad.com or phone Christine at (209) 966-5078.

Memorial Day Weekend, Friday, 28^th May through Monday, 31^st May

Join us at Meherana for a Sahavas weekend of Music & Sharing with Bhau Kalchuri and Bob Een!

Registration information will be sent out soon and also be on our website http://www.Meherana.org. Don’t miss it!

Bhau’s Schedule at Meherana (outside of the Spring Sahavas)

Everyone is welcome to all events!

May 20^th through June 30^th 2010

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays

11:00 AM – Visit with Bhau and 4:30 PM – Bhau/Questions & Answers

Mondays & Thursdays

Rest days (sometimes Bhau will talk on these days, please call or email us at info@meherana.org for updates.)

Saturdays

4:00 PM talk, morning talk depending on Bhau’s health

Sundays

11:00 AM – Visit with Bhau and 5 – 9 PM – Internet Chat

Overnight Camping and Day Visit Arrangements

Reservations are required for both overnight camping and for day visitation — please make your reservation by sending an email to reservations@meherana.org

Overnight accommodations available at Meherana during Bhau’s stay will be tent camping (bathing facilities are provided). If you do not have a tent, let us know – we have tents available that will be set up for you with futons. You may also make your own arrangements to stay in Mariposa. For lodging in Mariposa go to www.homeofyosemite.com under Places to Stay.

Daily dinner and afternoon chai are included for both overnight and day visitors. Breakfast and lunch will be up to the individuals to provide and prepare for themselves (kitchen facilities with refrigerator and cupboard space are provided).

Adults Children (12 and under)

Overnight Camping including $20 a day $10 a day

Dinner and afternoon Chai

Day Rate including

Dinner and afternoon Chai $12.50 a day $ 5 a day

If seven (7) or more continuous overnight stays or day visits (with Dinner and afternoon Chai) are purchased then there is a special rate as this allows us to purchase supplies in bulk:

Adults Children (12 & under)

Special Rate for 7 or more continuous days

Overnight Camping including $15 a day $7 a day

Dinner and afternoon Chai

Special Rate for 7 or more continuous days

Day Rate including

Dinner and afternoon Chai $8 a day $ 3.50 a day

We hope to see you at Meherana during Bhau’s stay!

Meherana

3946 State Highway 140

Mariposa CA 95306

209 742 5794

www.meherana.org

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Bhau was in FF (“Full Force” form last week, and Baba willing, he will be even more FF on Sunday. Below is an excerpt from the beginning of the chat and a note about another of Bhau’s forthcoming books.

*****

My dearest dear ones of Beloved Avatar [...]]]> Bhau’s Internet Chat Webcast Sunday, 7th March 2010

Beloved Avatar Meher Ki Jai Baba!

Bhau was in FF (“Full Force” form last week, and Baba willing, he
will be even more FF on Sunday. Below is an excerpt from the
beginning of the chat and a note about another of Bhau’s forthcoming
books.

*****

My dearest dear ones of Beloved Avatar Meher Baba, the first thing, I
must do is to bow down to your feet with all love. I am watching all
over the world and find that people – or I should say, Baba lovers -
are amazing! They just know and feel, and they follow Meher Baba.
But I know that Meher Baba is also in those who don’t follow Him. He
is in everyone, so whether you accept Him or reject Him, it is His
duty, His responsibility, so He has to look after everyone.

The same One was Abraham. Afterwards, He came as Zoroaster, then Ram,
Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, and now, Meher Baba. Every time He
comes, His face is different, His language is different, and whatever
He says is different because every time He comes, the situation of the
world is different. Whatever situation was there at the time of
Zoroaster was not the same at the time of Rama, and His work is
according to the situation and differs in every age.

Nobody knows He is one and the same One, so then people create
differences. “Our religion is best, that religion is very bad.”

In Illusion there are time and space, and it takes a very, very long
time to know that I AM. Actually, in Truth, there is no time, and
there is no space.

[Some lost text here.]

Everything happens in the present; there is no past and no future.

Here is Dr. Donkin Jr. (Bob). He knows that everything happens in the
present. Look at him! Just see how his hand is up! Now he is
standing. “No past, no future, only present.”

He reads only THE WAYFARERS. “There is no need to read anything
else,” he says. “These masts and saliks are in the mental world. I
must read about them. Such a book has never come out in any age.”

This time, it was Dr. Donkin, who was from the West, from England, who
wrote about masts.

He came to Baba, Who was in Bangalore at the time. Baba was going
here and there, collecting masts and working with them. Dr. Donkin
was observing. One day, his interest increased so much that he
thought, “Baba works day and night, continuously, but nothing is
written about His work.”

“Baba, You have contacted so many masts,” Dr. Donkin said, “and You go
on contacting them. But there is no record of Your contacts. People
will not know about them.”

Immediately Baba said, “Then you keep the record!”

“Baba, I don’t know about this,” Donkin protested.

“Then why did you ask?” Baba said. “You have to do this work.”

Poor Dr. Donkin was in difficulty. So he asked those who had gone
with Baba – Baidul, Kaka and Eruch – wherefrom they brought these
masts. Then he wrote the book, THE WAYFARERS.

****

Note: Dr. Donkin wrote two Supplements to the WAYFARERS, and later,
Bhau wrote a Third Supplement about Baba’s later contact with masts.
FF Mummy (Lynne) has copyedited the book, and it is now being prepared
for publication in the near future.

*****

TECHNICAL NOTES ABOUT THE CURRENT CHAT ROOM

Any time the text disappears, you should not have to log out and log
back in, just simply hit UPDATE in the Chat Room menu or REFRESH on
your Browser Toolbar (in which case, you will receive a message “The
page you are trying to view contains POST DATA …”

Click on OK and scroll down till you see the text.

*****

Per Bhau’s wishes, you are welcome to join in or leave the chat at any time.

Please do not post questions regarding the webcast during the chat, as
the chat and the webcast are being produced by two separate teams.

*****

Below are the local times for the chat. If your city is not listed,
the exact time for your location can be calculated at

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Instructions on how to join the chat are given beneath the timetables below.

We’d prefer if you select a color other than blue when you log in (it
makes Bhau’s comments more distinctive on screen). And when you’re
online, be sure to click Refresh every few minutes so that you don’t
time out.

*****

NOTE THAT ALL BEGINNING TIMES EXCEPT AUCKLAND ARE ON SUNDAY, 6TH MARCH

Honolulu: 1:30 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.
Anchorage: 2:30 a.m. – 6:30 a.m.
Pacific U.S., Vancouver: 3:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.
Rocky Mountain U.S., Edmonton: 4:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Central U.S., Managua, Mexico City, San Salvador, Winnipeg: 5:30 a.m.
- 9:30 a.m.

Eastern U.S., Bogota, Havana, Kingston, Lima : 6:30 a.m. – 10:30
Caracas: 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Halifax, San Juan, Santo Domingo: 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Santiago: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Casablanca, Dublin, Lisbon, London (Greenwich), Reykjavik: 11:30 a.m.
- 3:30 p.m. (15.30)
Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Lagos, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome,
Vienna, Zurich: 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (16.30)
Ankara, Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Harare, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jerusalem,
Jo’burg, Kiev: 1:30 p.m. (13.30) – 5:30 p.m. (17.30)
Addis Ababa, Baghdad, Khartoum, Moscow, Nairobi: 2:30 p.m. (16.30) -
6:30 p.m.(18.30)
Tehran: 3:00 p.m. (15.30) – 7:00 p.m. (19.30)

Kabul: 4:00 p.m. (16.00) – 8:00 p.m. (20.00)
Karachi: 4:30 p.m. (16.30) – 8:30 p.m. (20.30)
SAMADHI: 5:00 p.m. (17.00) – 9:00 p.m. (21.00)
Yangon (Rangoon): 6:00 p.m. (18.00) – 10:00 p.m. (22.00)
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta: 6:30 p.m.- 10:30 p.m.

Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei:
7:30 p.m. (19.30) – 11:30 p.m. (23.30)
Perth, Seoul, Tokyo: 8:30 p.m. (20.30) – 12:30 a.m.
Brisbane: 9:30 p.m. (21.30) – 1:30 a.m.
Melbourne, Sydney: 10:30 p.m. (22:30) – 2:30 a.m.
Auckland: Monday 12:30 a.m. – 4:30 a.m.
******

TO ACCESS THE CHAT:

Click on http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html

Or, copy and paste URL into your browser

Or, go to www.JaiBaba.com Home Page.

Go midway down the page. Under Featured Areas on the far left, click on JaiBaba
Chat.

Follow the instructions on the Welcome To The 2005 Bhau Chats page:

1. Nickname: Type the name that you want to go by in the chat room.

2. Text Color: Choose a color for your messages. The default is black.

3. [Join Chat]: Just click this button to enter the chat room!

4. Remember Settings: Check this to set a cookie which stores your
nickname and Text Color for future log ons.

NOTE: This chat is logged, and any rude behavior can result in the
user being permanently banned from the chat room.

If you receive the error message:

“Alert! The URL that you used to access this chatroom may cause
errors. Please log in again, using

http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html“;

your computer is probably set to reject cookies from this domain.
Check the Internet for:

“Setting [insert the name of your browser, Internet Explorer, Mozilla,
Apple, etc. without these brackets] to accept cookies”

and follow the instructions you find

Click off Remember Settings and trying logging back in.

Whenever you wish to post a message to the chat, type your message in
the box beneath [Help] [Refresh Messages], then click on Update

*****

TO ACCESS THE WEBCAST:

The broadcast will be a video feed like a TV and best viewed on a
connection that can stream at least 148kbps. Please check your
speakers and have them ready.

The link is active only during the broadcast times below.

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

To log onto the webcast, open a new browser tab/window.

A. Method A

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Press Enter.

B. Method B

Type or Copy/Paste

http://ambppct.org/events/bhaulive2007.php

Midway down the page you will see a pink underlined sentence.

Click here to listen to Bhau Live

When you click on that link (when the broadcast is active), your
Windows Media Player should fire up and you will see the live image
and hear Bhau talking.

If you click on the link and your Windows Media Player does not
automatically open and play the video stream, use Method C.

C. Method C

Open Windows Media Player.

Go to:

File-open URL.

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Into the box and press Enter.

******

FOR USERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH MACS, WHO DON’T HAVE WINDOWS MEDIA
PLAYER, REAL PLAYER ALSO WORKS.

Another alternative, suggested by Eric Romesberg, is VLC Media Player,
downloadable at:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

According to Eric, “VLC supports Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux. I was
able to watch and simultaneously record the video+audio or watch the
video+audio while recording only the audio (to reduce the file size)”

*****

RECORDING THE WEBCAST

Unfortunately, no further information is regarding the following
procedures. Please contact your local geek for advice.

If you are using Windows Media Player and have Real Player installed,
the webcast can often be recorded by right clicking on the Windows
Media Player image and clicking on “Download this video.”

Eric recorded the webcast using the following procedure:

Here are the VLC menus I used to watch the webcast and record the video+audio:

1. Open VLC Media Player

2. Click on Media Open Network Stream…

3. Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/Meher Baba

in the address field

3. Click the down-arrow to the left of the Play button

4. Select Convert

5. For the profile, select “Video – H.264 + AAC (TS)”

6. Select a folder and name for the destination file, with a .TS extension

7. Check the box “Display the output” to watch the webcast while recording.

8. Click Start

RECORDING THE AUDIO

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

Audio only can be recorded by selecting the “Audio – AAC (MP4)”
profile instead, using a .MP4 extension for the filename.

AUDACITY

The audio portion of the webcast can also be recorded by itself by
using the Audacity program (use the WAVE function).

www.audacity.com
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Over on Meher Baba Manifesting, Kendra Crossen has posted her thoughts on this morning’s events.

To read the entire post, visit Earthquake Shakes Our Hearts.

Here’s an excerpt:

by Kendra [...]]]> The earthquake in Chile this morning, a magnitude 8.8, has shaken us all for a variety of reasons and at a variety of levels.

Over on Meher Baba Manifesting, Kendra Crossen has posted her thoughts on this morning’s events.

To read the entire post, visit Earthquake Shakes Our Hearts.

Here’s an excerpt:

Earthquake Shakes Our Hearts

by Kendra Crossen

Someone called me at 6 AM this morning to tell me that Chile had been struck with an 8.8-magnitude earthquake, with tsunami warnings for the South American coast, Russia, and Hawai’i, and perhaps other Pacific areas. I asked, “Did you call me because you think that this is the ‘end of the world’ or a sign of Meher Baba’s Manifestation?” They said yes, that a phenomenon like this is part of the Manifestation Watch.

continued….

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Beloved Avatar Meher Ki Jai Baba!

A humorous extract tweaked from last week’s chat.

*****

Bhau Kalchuri – Unscientific Beaucoup. (Will David) is coming to me! [to Unscientific Beaucoup]. You sit down here. He is ready to go to Sakori with my Gigi [...]]]> Bhau’s Internet Chat Webcast Sunday, 28th February 2010

Date: Friday, 26th February 2010

Beloved Avatar Meher Ki Jai Baba!

A humorous extract tweaked from last week’s chat.

*****

Bhau Kalchuri – Unscientific Beaucoup. (Will David) is coming to me! [to Unscientific Beaucoup]. You sit down here. He is ready to go to Sakori with my Gigi and ready to perform his dance here. Then he will get a lot of money. When he goes with me, even though he holds private interviews in a separate room, there is no money,.

When were in France, only one word of French did he know: “Oui.” [Yes.] So to anything in France, he would reply, “Oui, Oui!”

When I heard this, I called one girl and said to her, “Just ask him, ‘Do you want to be hanged?’”

She went to him and asked my question, “Do you want to be hanged?”

“Oui, oui!” Unscientific Beaucoup replied.

Everyone was laughing and laughing.

Unscientific Beaucoup – I didn’t know why they were laughing, so I was laughing too!

Bhau Kalchuri – Say your name.

Unscientific Beaucoup – Unscientific Beaucoup from Myrtle Beach.

Bhau Kalchuri – “Oui, oui, oui!” I gave him the name Unscientific Beaucoup, so still he says, “Oui, oui!”

He has composed one song.

Universal Queen (Susie) He is going to sing it?

Unscientific Beaucoup – [extemporizing]

Baba loves you so much,
So much, that much [gestures]
This Unscientific Beaucoup has come here.
Up until now, he is trying and trying,
But he could not grow any plants here,
Because they come up.
But then the goats come and they eat!
He failed miserably.
Many times he tried and failed …

Universal Queen – What a miserable lot, can’t even grow a tree!

Unscientific Beaucoup – … But the goats are healthy!]

*****

TECHNICAL NOTES ABOUT THE CURRENT CHAT ROOM

Any time the text disappears, you should not have to log out and log back in, just simply hit UPDATE in the Chat Room menu or REFRESH on your Browser Toolbar (in which case, you will receive a message “The page you are trying to view contains POST DATA …”

Click on OK and scroll down till you see the text.

*****

Per Bhau’s wishes, you are welcome to join in or leave the chat at any time.

Please do not post questions regarding the webcast during the chat, as the chat and the webcast are being produced by two separate teams.

*****

Below are the local times for the chat. If your city is not listed, the exact time for your location can be calculated at

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Instructions on how to join the chat are given beneath the timetables below.

We’d prefer if you select a color other than blue when you log in (it makes Bhau’s comments more distinctive on screen). And when you’re online, be sure to click Refresh every few minutes so that you don’t time out.

*****

NOTE THAT ALL BEGINNING TIMES EXCEPT AUCKLAND ARE ON SUNDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY

Honolulu: 1:30 a.m. – 5:30 a.m.
Anchorage: 2:30 a.m. – 6:30 a.m.
Pacific U.S., Vancouver: 3:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m.
Rocky Mountain U.S., Edmonton: 4:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Central U.S., Managua, Mexico City, San Salvador, Winnipeg: 5:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Eastern U.S., Bogota, Havana, Kingston, Lima : 6:30 a.m. – 10:30
Caracas: 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Halifax, San Juan, Santo Domingo: 7:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Santiago: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Casablanca, Dublin, Lisbon, London (Greenwich), Reykjavik: 11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (15.30)
Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Lagos, Madrid, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Vienna, Zurich: 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. (16.30)
Ankara, Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Harare, Helsinki, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Jo’burg, Kiev: 1:30 p.m. (13.30) – 5:30 p.m. (17.30)
Addis Ababa, Baghdad, Khartoum, Moscow, Nairobi: 2:30 p.m. (16.30) – 6:30 p.m.(18.30)
Tehran: 3:00 p.m. (15.30) – 7:00 p.m. (19.30)

Kabul: 4:00 p.m. (16.00) – 8:00 p.m. (20.00)
Karachi: 4:30 p.m. (16.30) – 8:30 p.m. (20.30)
SAMADHI: 5:00 p.m. (17.00) – 9:00 p.m. (21.00)
Yangon (Rangoon): 6:00 p.m. (18.00) – 10:00 p.m. (22.00)
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta: 6:30 p.m.- 10:30 p.m.

Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei: 7:30 p.m. (19.30) – 11:30 p.m. (23.30)
Perth, Seoul, Tokyo: 8:30 p.m. (20.30) – 12:30 a.m.
Brisbane: 9:30 p.m. (21.30) – 1:30 a.m.
Melbourne, Sydney: 10:30 p.m. (22:30) – 2:30 a.m.
Auckland: Monday 12:30 a.m. – 4:30 a.m.
******

TO ACCESS THE CHAT:

Click on http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html

Or, copy and paste URL into your browser

Or, go to www.JaiBaba.com Home Page.

Go midway down the page. Under Featured Areas on the far left, click on JaiBaba
Chat.

Follow the instructions on the Welcome To The 2005 Bhau Chats page:

1. Nickname: Type the name that you want to go by in the chat room.

2. Text Color: Choose a color for your messages. The default is black.

3. [Join Chat]: Just click this button to enter the chat room!

4. Remember Settings: Check this to set a cookie which stores your nickname and Text Color for future log ons.

NOTE: This chat is logged, and any rude behavior can result in the user being permanently banned from the chat room.

If you receive the error message:

“Alert! The URL that you used to access this chatroom may cause errors. Please log in again, using

http://jaibaba.com/echat45/public/index.html”;

your computer is probably set to reject cookies from this domain. Check the Internet for:

“Setting [insert the name of your browser, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Apple, etc. without these brackets] to accept cookies”

and follow the instructions you find

Click off Remember Settings and trying logging back in.

Whenever you wish to post a message to the chat, type your message in the box beneath [Help] [Refresh Messages], then click on Update

*****

TO ACCESS THE WEBCAST:

The broadcast will be a video feed like a TV and best viewed on a connection that can stream at least 148kbps. Please check your speakers and have them ready.

The link is active only during the broadcast times below.

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

To log onto the webcast, open a new browser tab/window.

A. Method A

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Press Enter.

B. Method B

Type or Copy/Paste

http://ambppct.org/events/bhaulive2007.php

Midway down the page you will see a pink underlined sentence.

Click here to listen to Bhau Live

When you click on that link (when the broadcast is active), your Windows Media Player should fire up and you will see the live image and hear Bhau talking.

If you click on the link and your Windows Media Player does not automatically open and play the video stream, use Method C.

C. Method C

Open Windows Media Player.

Go to:

File-open URL.

Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/mb

Into the box and press Enter.

******

FOR USERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH MACS, WHO DON’T HAVE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER, REAL PLAYER ALSO WORKS.

Another alternative, suggested by Eric Romesberg, is VLC Media Player, downloadable at:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

According to Eric, “VLC supports Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux. I was able to watch and simultaneously record the video+audio or watch the video+audio while recording only the audio (to reduce the file size)”

*****

RECORDING THE WEBCAST

Unfortunately, no further information is regarding the following procedures. Please contact your local geek for advice.

If you are using Windows Media Player and have Real Player installed, the webcast can often be recorded by right clicking on the Windows Media Player image and clicking on “Download this video.”

Eric recorded the webcast using the following procedure:

Here are the VLC menus I used to watch the webcast and record the video+audio:

1. Open VLC Media Player

2. Click on Media Open Network Stream…

3. Type or Copy/Paste

http://72.75.238.14/Meher Baba

in the address field

3. Click the down-arrow to the left of the Play button

4. Select Convert

5. For the profile, select “Video – H.264 + AAC (TS)”

6. Select a folder and name for the destination file, with a .TS extension

7. Check the box “Display the output” to watch the webcast while recording.

8. Click Start

RECORDING THE AUDIO

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

Audio only can be recorded by selecting the “Audio – AAC (MP4)” profile instead, using a .MP4 extension for the filename.

AUDACITY

The audio portion of the webcast can also be recorded by itself by using the Audacity program (use the WAVE function).

www.audacity.com

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Meher Baba

Beloved Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai!

My dearest dear ones of Beloved Baba,

Today we are celebrating Beloved Meher Baba’s Birthday.

In fact, He is never born, and He never dies. But in order to appear before us, He takes [...]]]> Bhau’s Message for Beloved Avatar Meher Baba’s 116th Birthday
On Thursday, 25th February 2010

Meher Baba

Beloved Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai!

My dearest dear ones of Beloved Baba,

Today we are celebrating Beloved Meher Baba’s Birthday.

In fact, He is never born, and He never dies. But in order to appear before us, He takes on a gross body. He is the One Who came as Abraham, and the religion of Judaism followed. The same Ancient One came afterward as Zoroaster. You will see that every Advent His face is different, but He is One and the same all the time. He is the Avatar (the Prophet, Rasool or Messiah), the only One who can give a Universal Push to all the kingdoms of Creation, to all the forms from gas, stone, metal, up to human being.

Previously, there were places in Andhra where, with Baba’s permission, Baba lovers would celebrate His Birthday in such a way that when Baba was physically 60-years old, their program would go on for 60 days! Some places would start celebrating from His Birthday itself – 60 days from 25th February onwards. Others would begin 60 days before and finish on His Birthday. Still, to this very day, in some places in Andhra, His Birthday will be celebrated for so many days!

Once, when we were on tour with Baba in Andhra, Baba’s 60th Birthday was celebrated in the house of Dr. Danpatthy Rao. And then we observed that 60 days of celebration followed!

“Andhra is my head, and Hamirpur is my heart,” Baba would say. Now we see that Baba’s Birthday celebration also goes on throughout Hamirpur District, where Baba declared Himself as the Avatar of the Age for the first time.

Beloved Baba also travelled around the whole world, not once, but 14 times. In some countries, He would not meet anyone as He did during His Eastern or Western tours. He would stay briefly in a place, like Japan – where He was in a hotel. The same in China, Mandali members were sent there, and while Baba was returning from the West, He went and stayed there a few days, though He did not meet anyone.

He was doing His Universal Work, and now the world is coming to Him. We see it at Meherabad – people from all the different countries are coming to Him – Chinese, Japanese, even Germans and Russians, those from countries where Baba did not go … they are all coming! This Oneness has embraced everyone very, very, closely. Every corner of the world will know about Him – no country will be left out, and you will see people from all of them coming!

He is birthless and deathless. He is eternal and eternally active. What a wonderful, opportunity we have received that we have recognized Him and follow Him.

So go on saying, Jai Ho, Jai Ho, Jai Ho, Avatar Meher Baba, Jai Ho yours!

And please, O Beloved Baba, crush our false selves so that we may come closer and closer to You.

With all love and Jai Baba to you,

In His Love and Service,

Bhau

The Trust Office
King’s Road
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India

Dictated Christmas Eve 2009
(Thursday, 24th December 2009)

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