| Avatar Meher Baba: His Life |
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Avatar and the spiritual hierarchy. Meher Baba explained that the few genuine mahatmas, pirs, walis, and saints are pilgrims at various stations on the first six planes of consciousness. Of the rare ones who attain to the supreme Knowledge of Realization, there are at all times five, known as Perfect Masters, Sadgurus, or Qutubs, who descend again to ordinary human consciousness and perform spiritual duty on humanity’s behalf. The Avatar
(Christ, Rasool, Ancient One) is a separate case. Every 700 to 1400 years God Himself directly incarnates in human form to redeem humanity from its ignorance and to precipitate a springtide in creation. Past Avatars known to history include Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad. Meher Baba said that his own advent as Avatar, the last in this cycle of time, would give birth to a New Humanity in which the heart would balance the head and spirituality would suffuse and integrate
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| The path of love. Meher Baba gave no importance to rites, rituals, or ceremonies, but attached the highest significance to love for God. Divine love, he said, recognizes no barrier of caste, creed, religion, race, sex, or nationality but spreads directly from heart to heart. Affirming the validity of all paths to God if sincerely followed, Meher Baba directed his own disciples and followers to lead simple, natural lives,
attending faithfully to worldly responsibilities while remembering God or the Master inwardly and dedicating all action to Him. Meher Baba’s worldwide following today continues to love and honor him not merely as a great spiritual teacher but as the actual divine Beloved or Manifestation of God in human form. Though in keeping with his wish they have refrained from creating a cult or religion, they maintain the centers that he established in Meherabad in India, at Myrtle Beach in the
United States, and in Woombye, Australia, and other centers elsewhere, which host visitors and serve as points for the dissemination of his message of love and truth. top |
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