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Much Silence MUCH SILENCE Meher Baba: HIS LIFE AND WORK Tom and Dororthy Hopkinson An Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook Copyright © September 2020 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust Ahmednagar M.S. India Source: Much Silence By Tom and Dorothy Hopkinson London Victor Gollancz LTD 1974 © Meher Baba Spiritual League Ltd 1974 © Copyright in the Talks and Discourses of Meher Baba belongs to Adi K. Irani ISBN 0 575 01410 5 Made and printed in Great Britain by The Garden City Press Limited Letchworth, Hertfordshire eBooks at the Avatar Meher Baba Trust Web Site The Avatar Meher Baba Trust's eBooks aspire to be textually exact though non-facsimile reproductions of published books, journals and articles. With the consent of the copyright holders, these online editions are being made available through the Avatar Meher Baba Trust's web site, for the research needs of Meher Baba's lovers and the general public around the world. Again, the eBooks reproduce the text, though not the exact visual likeness, of the original publications. They have been created through a process of scanning the original pages, running these scans through optical character recognition (OCR) software, reflowing the new text, and proofreading it. Except in rare cases where we specify otherwise, the texts that you will find here correspond, page for page, with those of the original publications: in other words, page citations reliably correspond to those of the source books. But in other respects-such as lineation and font- the page designs differ. Our purpose is to provide digital texts that are more readily downloadable and searchable than photo facsimile images of the originals would have been. Moreover, they are often much more readable, especially in the case of older books, whose discoloration and deteriorated condition often makes them partly illegible. Since all this work of scanning and reflowing and proofreading has been accomplished by a team of volunteers, it is always possible that errors have crept into these online editions. If you find any of these, please let us know, by emailing us at [email protected]. The aim of the Trust's online library is to reproduce the original texts faithfully. In certain cases, however-and this applies especially to some of the older books that were never republished in updated versions-we have corrected certain small errors of a typographic order. When this has been done, all of these corrections are listed in the "Register of Editorial Alterations" that appears at the end of the digital book. If you want the original text in its exact original form, warts and all, you can reconstruct this with the aid of the "register." The Trust's Online Library remains very much a work in progress. With your help and input, it will increase in scope and improve in elegance and accuracy as the years go by. In the meantime, we hope it will serve the needs of those seeking to deepen and broaden their own familiarity with Avatar Meher Baba's life and message and to disseminate this good news throughout the world. MUCH SILENCE Meher Baba: his life and work MUCH SILENCE MEHER BABA: HIS LIFE AND WORK by Tom and Dorothy Hopkinson LONDON VICTOR GOLLANCZ LTD 1974 © Meher Baba Spiritual League Ltd 1974 © Copyright in the Talks and Discourses of Meher Baba belongs to Adi K. Irani ISBN 0 575 01410 5 MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE GARDEN CITY PRESS LIMITED LETCHWORTH, HERTFORDSHIRE "Much silence makes a mighty noise." AFRICAN PROVERB "When mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of his silence, God incarnates as man." MEHER BABA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT A NUMBER OF books have been written about Meher Baba, apart from those dictated by himself or consisting of extracts from these dictations. Many are listed at the back of this book, and anyone wishing to know more about Baba's life and work can learn from them as we have done. But hitherto there has been no short record, covering the whole period of Baba's earthly life, written in language the man in the Western street can readily understand and without assuming knowledge he is not likely to possess. That is what this book is intended to provide. To do this we have depended heavily on what has already been written, and though we have drawn a great deal from many sources, we must stress our special obligations to the following works, and our thanks to the copyright holders for permission to make quotations. The Perfect Master by C. B. Purdom (Williams & Norgate Ltd, 1937); The God-Man by C. B. Purdom (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1964); Avatar by Jean Adriel (J. F. Rowny Press, Calif., 1947); Meher Baba, Family Letters, 1956-1969, by Manija Sheriar Irani (Soc. for Avatar Meher Baba, New York, 1969); Listen, Humanity by Meher Baba, narrated and edited by D. E. Stevens (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1957); God Speaks: the Theme of Creation and Its Purpose by Meher Baba (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1955); Discourses by Meher Baba, published in India, 1939, and now out of print; also in London, as God to Man and Man to God (Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955); and in the U.S.A. Discourses by Meher Baba, edited by Ivy Oneita Duce and Don E. Stevens (Sufism Reoriented, 1967); The Wayfarers by William Donkin, with a foreword by Meher Baba (Adi K. Irani for Meher Publications, India, 1948); Meher Baba's Last Sahavas by Dr H.P. Bharucha (published by himself from Navsari, India, 1969). We are also grateful for permission to quote from MSS notes "I Remember... " by Delia de Leon, and must acknowledge 8 MUCH SILENCE our debt to the three magazines currently devoted to Meher Baba, The Glow, The Awakener and Divya Vani, which have been invaluable for checking and amplifying the record of the books. Details of these magazines are included in the bibliography. T. and D. H. CONTENTS Part One: His Life Chapter page 1 Meeting Meher Baba 13 2 Early Life 21 3 Intense Activity 30 4 The 'Thunderous Silence' 40 5 Travel in the East 47 6 Travel in the West 54 7 Bringing East and West Together 62 8 The 'God-Intoxicated' (1) 68 9 The 'God-Intoxicated' (2) 76 10 'Helpless and Hopeless' 85 11 The 'Great Personal Disaster' 96 12 The Avatar 105 13 A 'So-Called Tragedy' 112 14 The Long Seclusion 123 15 The Last Sahavas 133 Part Two: His Teaching Introduction 145 16 The Drama of the Ego 147 17 Sex, Marriage and Love 154 18 The Soul's Journey Through Creation (1) 165 19 The Soul's Journey Through Creation (2) 172 20 The Journey Home 184 Part One: His Life Chapter 1 MEETING MEHER BABA WHAT IS THE purpose of man's life on earth? How does he come to be here? What happens to him when he dies? Are his ideas of right and wrong rooted in reality? Or are all morality and ethics merely part of social custom, varying with place and time? And if so, how is man to guide his life by anything more lasting than convention and self-interest? Does human nature progress in any real sense? Are human beings today 'better' than human beings of a thousand or ten thousand years ago? Are we any more able than they were to live in peace, developing our natures and talents to the full? Or have we, instead of becoming wiser and more understanding, merely become more complex and more knowing? Is man intended to be happy - and if so, why is he everywhere so miserable and so mean? We all assume happiness to be the end of life, we are all, in our own ways, pursuing happiness throughout our lives - then why do we never overtake it? Which one of us all in his secret heart considers himself happy? Which one of us believes those about him - his wife and children - to be happy? How many of us, looking honestly around, can say that we know one truly happy man, or - rarer still - a happy woman? In every age man is haunted by these questions. No access of power or accumulation of possessions, no degree of absorption in his occupations, no abandonment to pleasure ever entirely drives them from his mind. And when we are old, or sick, or poor, or impotent, or deserted - the unanswered questions force themselves upon our notice, and we realise, when it seems too late to do anything about them, that they were of more concern to us than all the activities on which we are spending or have spent our lives. There are moments in most lifetimes when we ask ourselves if we have been travelling in the wrong direction, and whether the ideas about life which we took over from those about us were as foolish and misdirected as their own lives are seen to be. At such 14 MUCH SILENCE moments, for an instant, we may even be ready to make changes in ourselves and in our way of life, if we could believe such changes would give us the happiness we seek. But who can give us such a guarantee? Being creatures of our age we perhaps look first to politics and science. But while politics can make the external conditions of life fractionally more just and less oppressive, it can do nothing to relieve our inner state. Changes in the political system may ensure that men have enough to eat, are decently housed and their children educated, that they do not suffer avoidable ill-health or die sooner than they need - but we know that, when all such necessary changes have been brought about, man will only have acquired better surroundings in which the same anxieties, frustrations, agonies must still be faced.
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