This practice of abstinence has remained a topic of discussion among some of his followers. The works by him regarded as most important were his books God Speaks and Discourses.įor decades, he declined to speak, and, later, also refrained to communicate via written language. His other teachings included discussion of Perfect Masters, the Avatar, and those on the various stages of the spiritual path which he termed involution. He presented advice to followers wishing to attain God-realization, and thereby escape the wheel of birth and death. He taught that God alone exists, and each soul is God passing through imagination in order to realize its own divinity. He described the phenomenal world as illusory, and presented the idea that the Universe is imagination. Meher Baba's teachings concerned the nature and purpose of life. 3.5 1960s – Later years and message discouraging the use of drugs.3.4 1950s – God Speaks and automobile accidents.3.2 1930s – First contact with the West.His tomb has become a place of pilgrimage for his followers, often known as 'Baba lovers'. He died in 1969, and was buried in Meherabad. In 1925, he began a 44-year period of observed silence, during which he communicated first using an alphabet board, and by 1954, entirely through hand gestures using an interpreter. Īt the age of 19, Meher Baba began a seven-year period of spiritual transformation, during which he had encounters with Hazrat Babajan, Upasni Maharaj, Sai Baba of Shirdi, Tajuddin Baba, and Narayan Maharaj. He taught that the goal of all beings was to gain consciousness of their own divinity, and to realise the absolute oneness of God. Meher Baba's map of consciousness has been described as 'a unique amalgam of Sufi, Vedic, and Yogic terminology'. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe and Australia. Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age.

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