To one who debates allying himself with a teacher of the inner processes, the discourses provide invaluable insight. While Baba admits the possibility of achieving progress without such a guide, he makes it clear that it is fraught with almost insurmountable problems, and difficulties. The Master is the knowing guide who had already traversed the Path, who provides with infinite patience the secure and steady pace that can lead to the goal. Rather, they are a constant, firm reminder of the need for a Master on this Path of apparent return to Oneness. While the discourse provide detailed descriptions of the Path and its disciplines. The discourses on the other hand are the practical guide for the aspirant as he slowly finds his way back to Oneness, after having developed consciousness through the deeps of evolution. In his classic later work ‘God Speaks’ Meher Baba described in detail the vertical system of God, His Will to know Himself consciously, and the purpose of creation in the Will. He also outlines the structure of Creation, but only to clarify the relationship of the aspirant to the Master.
In this work, given to his close disciples in the period 1938–43, he describes the means of incorporating daily life into one’s spiritual ongoing. Meher Baba’s discourses are a major contribution to that small body of literature. The history of man’s search for his soul has produced few works dealing with the technique for the soul’s discovery. Though silent and abstaining from writing, Meher Baba had released a large volume of works revealing the spiritual theme of human life clearer than any master had ever done before him, explaining creation, evolution of consciousness through infinite variety of forms, re-incarnation and involution of consciousness in a language intelligible to an average man’s understanding and at the same time scientific and logical in convincing the rationalist. Thereafter he conversed through his own unique shorthand system of representative gestures. At first he communicated by writing on slates, then by pointing to letters on an alphabet board, which he gave up on 7th October 1954. Meher Baba began his unique silence on 10th July 1925, and stopped writing in 1927.
But viewed from an angle of spiritual emancipation of mankind for which alone Perfect Master is ordained in the divine plan of God’s functioning these activities were motivations or spiritual stimulation for the transformation of all spheres of existence, planes of consciousness and departments of life. Judged from the standard of worldly activities, these may appear to an objective observer as charitable, social, cultural or educational activities, which though valuable in that period of Indian history, were insignificant.
Here he instituted various activities of ego service and self-giving love for the disciples. After a few years of intensive training of these disciples and travel with them in India and Iran, Meher Baba finally established, what is now called ‘ Meher Retreat’ at Meherabad, on the outskirts of Arangaon village in Ahmednagar. In 1921, he began his divine work with the early disciples he had collected around him while living in a hut built for him by Shri Sadashiv Govind Shelke at Shivajinagar, Pune near the popular shrine of goddess Chatusringi. He was reported to have met the other three perfect Masters of the time before he came in contact with Upasani Maharaj, but no record of what happened in such meeting is available, except that Sai Baba of Shirdi uttered “ Parvardigar” on seeing him. In 1913, while in his first year at Deccan College he came in contact with Hazrat Babajan, one of the five Perfect Masters of the Age, who by a kiss on his forehead awakened him to the experience of what one may call God-realization.ĭuring the course of subsequent seven years Upasani Maharaj, another Perfect Master of the age gave him knowledge of his infinite state and integrated his God-consciousness with the consciousness of the gross world, preparing him thus for his role. Vincent High School, from where he was matriculated. He was first educated in Dastur Girls’ School and later in St. Meherwan Sheriar Irani (Meher Baba) was born in Pune, India in February 1894.
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