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Meher Baba Australia December 2016 – February 2017 Meher Baba Australia Baba Was, Baba Is and Baba Will Also Be Eternally Existent Meher Baba Australia December 2016 – February 2017 Meher Baba Australia Baba was, Baba is and Baba will also be eternally existent Meher Baba – Friday 8th October 1954, Satara Baba stopped using the alphabet board noted: “Now and forever, the Avatar from 7 October 1954 ... holds the pulse of the world in his After the September 1954 hands, and it is by his will alone that Meherabad meeting where Meher humanity breathes.” on earth. Let not your hearts be Baba’s Final Declaration was read In the West also, Baba’s followers’ torn asunder by my declarations out: ... when the lovers reached concern about His pronouncement concerning the dropping of my their homes, they spread the news was felt and many anxious letters body. On the contrary, accept everywhere of the contents of His from His lovers there were received in my Divine Will cheerfully. You Final Declaration – of Baba’s dropping Satara. On Friday, 8 October 1954, can never escape from me. Even the body and the destruction of this reply from Baba was sent to them. if you try to escape from me, it three-fourths of the world. In some It had been dictated the previous day is not possible to get rid of me. Therefore, have courage and be vernacular newspapers in India, on the board and was the last message brave. accounts were published and the given on the alphabet board: reports spread throughout the “There is no reason at all for any If you thus lose your hearts, country. In Baba centers in Hamirpur, of you to worry. Baba was, Baba how will it be possible for you to repetition of Baba’s name without a is and Baba will also be eternally fulfill the great task which I have break for 24 hours began, and the existent. Severance of external entrusted to you? Be brave and whole district was swept away in Baba’s relations does not mean the spread my message of love far and wide to all quarters, in order to love. All were praying that Baba not termination of internal links. It was only for establishing the internal fulfill my Divine Will. Let the words, give up the body, and in all corners of connection that external contacts “Baba, Baba, Baba,” come forth India talk about Meher Baba prevailed. had been maintained until now. from the mouth of every child, and A strange atmosphere had descended, let their ignorance be reduced to and it seemed Baba’s unusual The time has now come for being ashes by the burning flame of my declaration had served to spread his bound in the chain of internal love. connections. Hence, external name quickly far and wide. contact is no longer necessary. It Come together in order to fulfil my After Baba’s (Final) declaration was is possible to establish the internal will by taking your stand on Truth, publicized, a formidable opposition link by obeying Baba’s orders. Love and Honesty, and be worthy to it arose, claiming it lacked basis; I give you all my blessings for of participating in my task. I give but the result was quite the contrary, strengthening these internal links. you all my blessings for spreading as it brought many to Baba’s feet. my message of love.” I am always with you and I am not The declaration was, in truth, the away from you. I was, am and will declaration of God, and can never be remain eternally with you, and it is LORD MEHER Online unfounded or false: The results would for promoting this realization that I pp. 3650, 3651, 3652. always be according to Baba’s wish. have severed external contact. This Had an ordinary man made such will enable all persons to realize To read about events leading up to Meher Baba’s Final Declaration, refer a dramatic announcement, it would Truth by being bound to each other with internal links. to LORD MEHER Online pages 3638, have had a deleterious effect if no 3639, 3640, 3641, 3642. definite result occurred. In the Avatar’s O my lovers, I love you all! It is PHOTO: Avatar Meher Baba, 22 February case, however, everything happened only because of my love for my 1954, Town Hall, Masulipatnam, Andhra. in his own time, as he wished it. Aghe creation that I have descended © MN Publications. 2 December 2016 – February 2017 Meherwan Jessawala Once when Beloved Baba Meherwan was asked what a saint looks like, He simply Jessawala story pointed at Meherwan. Roy and Rosalind Hayes Meherwan would urge all of us to love and think Meherazad 2015 only of Baba and repeat His Name constantly and The 5th March was the he was much loved by the last day of our 2015 Baba community around pilgrimage and it turned the world. out to be an exceptionally On 3rd of July 2016, beautiful day. Even Meherwan fell just though Meherazad was outside the door of his closed to pilgrims at room at Meherazad the time for important upon returning from building restoration lunch, breaking his right including, after seventy hip and shoulder. He years, a new roof over was soon admitted to beloved Baba’s Room, a Pune hospital where Falu Mistry had invited us Meherwan Jessawala. Photo by Tricia Migdoll. he underwent hip to Meherazad to discuss replacement surgery on Trust matters. the 5th. Although the operation was a others. When the question, “How are When we arrived, we first went success Meherwan’s general condition, you” was posed, his answer would be, into Baba’s Mandali Hall, and due to age and his illness Myasthenia “I am fine” (even though he wasn’t), found His presence was very Gravis, began to deteriorate until he followed by some expressed concern powerful, as always. Then, Falu went into respiratory failure at 3:45 for the one who asked the question. gave us morning coffee and we a.m., July 15th, and quietly slipped Meherwan, all those of us who had a warm hearted meeting. away into his Beloved’s arms. know and love you join together to Afterwards we went to see the busy How much Meherwan will be say how grateful we are for your very team of workers including Shelley missed is inestimable. He was friend being. You remained focused on your and Casey, working on re-roofing and guide to so many, particularly Beloved, repeating His Name till the Baba’s Room. his family, and especially his nieces very end. It has been our great honor I then went into Eruch’s room Mehera Arjani and Dolly Kerawala. to have been in your company. and found it also had a wonderful His very presence in this world enticed feeling and I was wistfully thinking Mehera to work hard at her recovery With love in Beloved Baba, that I really missed Eruch and from the stroke she had in November Shelley Marrich, Mehera Arjani, that I would also miss his brother and he was a tremendous support and Dolly Kerawala. Meherwan Jessawala. Just as I was to Dolly who is Mehera’s primary 15 July 2016 exiting Eruch’s room, Meherwan caregiver. His care and concern for came out from the room opposite. others was unfailing. Even in his last http://www.love-remembrances.com/ He warmly greeted me and we days when he was suffering so much, mandali/meherwan-jessawala/ talked for a while. he always thought of and asked after Continued on the next page 3 Meher Baba Australia As I was about to leave him, he very happy about this and Ted firmly squeezed my hand and said Judson remarked “that has got “take Baba back with you and repeat to be the longest drive for a cup His name, there is nothing else to of tea”. Little did he know, we Repeat do”. When Falu heard that I had seen would have driven much further Meherwan, he took Ros to see him for Meherwan’s company. My Name also. After greeting her, Meherwan The next day we arrived early squeezed her hand and repeated “take and soon after Meherwan and Baba back with you and repeat His the workers turned up. Ros continuously name, there is nothing else to do”. sat with Casey and Shelly and Meher Baba Both times Meherwan spoke, he spoke Meherwan asked me to sit next Meherabad Sahavas, with such great intensity that we really to him with Sam Kerawala on November 1955 felt it was the only thing to do…. my other side. Meherwan was in a lovely and playful mood “I want every lover of mine to repeat Meherazad 2016 acting like, I would imagine, my name with every breath. The he would have in his teens. We repetition should be continuous Around late February/ early March hadn’t seen him like this before. and such that even in sound sleep it 2016, Meherazad was closed to Then, in a very serious tone, should continue like your breathing. pilgrims again for further repairs and he said “you must repeat His Then there is some possibility of restoration of the kitchen area etc. name”. I replied ‘I’m repeating experiencing a glimpse of me. Again Falu Mistry had invited us to His name at night but I find it Never worry about thoughts while come to Meherazad for a cup of tea, hard during the day’. repeating my name. Don’t check them some discussions and a taste of the Meherwan replied “You must because when you repeat my name, ‘best marmalade in the world’. repeat His name - let it flow the thoughts will not create binding We first visited Mandali Hall which through you.
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