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Preface When Meher Baba and me was first published I expected to be addressing a Baba lover audience exclusively. It turned out that a number of relatives and friends who were not Baba lovers liked the book very much and the lack of knowledge regarding Baba’s Life or ‘Cosmology’ didn’t seem to matter. This was a lovely surprise! For those readers who might want to know more about Baba, I’d like to recommend this unusual, amazing web site: http://www.meherbabadnyana.net/life_eternal/Life_Eternal.html Of course Googling Meher Baba will bring up dozens of interesting sites – but this one is quite special. Author’s contact: [email protected] Purchase book: Sheriar Foundation Bookstore 807 34th Ave. S. North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582 USA http://www.sheriarbooks.org/ Free ebook on-line: http://www.meherbabaandme.com/ ***Dear Jim, It just goes to show that it is possible to cross the Californian with the Aussie and come up with a winner! Your book makes life with Baba feel very real and immediate. We have both read it and enjoyed it immensely. It is full of good things and we are so grateful that you have gone to all the trouble to share them with us. Tian knows how much is involved (as she has published her Chinese translation of Discourses). We hope you can come up this way before long and drink some Queensland red with us. Jai Baba! Geoff and Tian ***By chance this is the second time I saw your name in a week so I decided to read your book. I hope you don’t mind but for now I skipped the poetry, I lost all my poetry so when I read others I get sad about my own. I want to say thanks, and thanks again, I think you’ve started something though I can’t put my finger on it. Some words do come to mind like a fresh breeze, open and honest, a beautiful wife, and I’ve been there. In His love and hope, Marc ***Over the years I have read most of Jim’s poetry & stories, but once this book was published, I thought I had better read it seeing as I am his wife. So I picked it up, started reading, and couldn’t put it down until the final page. It is a delightful read, with a glimpse into the heart of a wonderful soul. Baba’s Jim. ***I enjoyed your husband’s book then I went to your site (Tricia’s Art web site http://www.dancingdust.com) and enjoyed your pictures. I really loved your work. Thanks for putting yourself out there. Marc ***Jim, wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! I enjoyed reading your book very much. In His love, Katie ***I only just looked at this link. Wow, you put the whole book online! That’s really generous of you, Jim. I prefer to read it as a “real” book, in my hands. I’m enjoying it enormously. There are some truly great anecdotes. At the moment I’m just reading the prose sections consecutively. Kendra ***Dear Jim, I’ve been perusing your book and am very impressed! You have written honestly from your heart to great effect. Thank you so much for taking the time and making the effort to share your Baba story with us. Love in Him always, Frank ***Dear Jim, Jai Meher Baba! I recently came back from visiting my family in the USA and upon arrival I found your book waiting for me. It was very kind to send it to me. I would read it every day after lunch. You have not only written your story but our story as well for when it comes to the life of a lover of God, and as beginners as we are, we all kind of start out at the same place. I could find myself thinking and feeling as you in so many of the instances you recalled. Thanks for making the effort of putting it down on paper. It was a joy and fun to read. Keep well and strong in Baba’s Remembrance. Yours lovingly in Baba, Craig © JIM MIGDOLL First edition published May 2006 Second edition published October 2006 All rights reserved. Any part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the author, so long as it is reproduced exactly as it appears. © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust Ahmednagar, India, for all quotes from Meher Baba National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication data Migdoll, Jim Meher Baba and me : poems, anecdotes and essays. ISBN10: 0-9775224-1-5 ISBN13: 978-0-9775224-1-5 1. Meher Baba, 1894-1969. 2. Meher Baba, 1894-1969 - Anecdotes. 3. Meher Baba, 1894-1969 - Poetry. I. Title. 294.563 Free ebook: http://www.meherbabaandme.com Author contact: Jim Migdoll PO Box 148, Bangalow NSW Australia 2479 Email: [email protected] Copies available from Sheriar Foundation Bookstore 807 34th Avenue S. North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582 USA http://www.sheriarbooks.org/ Cover Design Maeve Vella – Email: [email protected] Front Cover Photograph An oil painting by my wife, Tricia, entitled ‘Master and Disciple’. Based on photos of Meher Baba and me, when young and beautiful! Back Cover Photograph Photo by Tricia (an older, funny-lookin’ me and the older but still Most Beautiful Beloved) Published by Dragonwick Publishing PO Box 4210, Goonellabah NSW 2480 Tel: 02 6624 1933–Fax: 02 6624 1944 Email: [email protected] Printed in Australia by Southern Cross University Printery, Lismore Dedication Based on a quirky principle, I don’t believe in dedicating things to Avatar Meher Baba. Who is dedicating what ... to whom? (As per Bhau Kalchuri’s poem, ‘You Alone Exist’, from The Nothing and The Everything.) Therefore, I’d like to dedicate this book to all those who’ve enjoyed my poetry and encouraged or inspired me to write more: especially, my wife, Tricia (‘Biki’), Michael Rohan, Meheru Irani, Robert and Sosi Malta, Mark Hutchinson/Braun, Ray Kerkhove and Francis Brabazon. Contents Introduction .................................................... 11 Hide and seek .................................................... 13 The Beyond Beyond Hotel .................................... 20 Giving up on this world ....................................... 21 The stone solution .............................................. 22 Woolies – the great leveller ................................. 23 The mutant McDonald’s birds ............................... 24 Mel Gibson meets Baba! ...................................... 25 Francis Brabazon doesn’t give a damn ................... 29 Animals Poem for Maltas ................................................. 31 Naked animals #2 .............................................. 32 What cows want ................................................. 33 My dog can’t read ............................................... 34 First poem after long dry spell ............................. 35 Horse’s ultimatum .............................................. 36 Baba Baba Attending to Him ................................................ 37 He’s watching .................................................... 38 Love story ......................................................... 39 Meherabad Jail ................................................... 44 God’s Room ....................................................... 45 Re-remembering without regret ........................... 45 Brolly................................................................ 46 Dreams Awakened by an elbow ........................................ 47 Tiger Baba......................................................... 48 Darshan ............................................................ 49 Mehera/Jesus ..................................................... 50 His Name on a plane ........................................... 50 Baba dream, June 2004 ...................................... 51 Work Poems and Miscellaneous Glimpses of the garbageman #1 .......................... 52 One day ............................................................ 54 One Day #2 ....................................................... 54 Evidence ........................................................... 55 His smiling face.................................................. 57 Glimpses of the gardener #2 ............................... 58 Sophie .............................................................. 59 Guido the greengrocer ........................................ 59 The psychic ....................................................... 61 Lost Baba items ................................................. 62 His hair is there ................................................. 63 Collection of short poems Selection ..................................................... 65–71 The best of ORPS (ordinary romantic poems) .........72 Poem from the intellectually challenged ................ 74 Dog whimper ..................................................... 75 Holiday message 1982 ........................................ 76 Buddhist poem ................................................... 76 Two Indian pilgrimage poems ............................... 77 Humble effort .................................................... 78 Lost in the here and now ..................................... 78 Stop ................................................................. 79 Zen hedge trimming ........................................... 79 Public places ...................................................... 80 Merry-go-rounds and pawpaws ............................ 80 Hand of Fate .................................................... 82 8 Minor Miracles Telephone message from Him .............................. 85 Baba picks me up ............................................... 86 McDonald’s Muzak .............................................. 87 A ‘guru’ gives me His name ................................. 88 He

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