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  • Sahavas for Everyone: Control through Love, July 16, 2025 live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/17

    Sahavas for Everyone. First and third Wednesday of the month.

    Avatar Meher Baba is in each one of us. And His Love is the focus of this gathering. Open discussion with each session having a topic or theme. Hosted by Laurent Weichberger in SC.

    Meher Baba and His "Twelve Ways of Realizing Me," way #7

    Control Through Love.

    Jai Baba!

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    54 分
  • Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: E&G: Dissolving the Veils, July 13, 2025, live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/17

    We have some informal chat after every arti, the "post-arti party"! But once a week, Jeff Wolverton joins us for some serious mining of the spiritual depths. Join us for conversation, more readings, songs, quotes - you never know what treasures will be uncovered!

    Dear folks of Baba,

    In this next chapter, Darwin introduces the lifelong work we face of dissolving the many veils that distort our vision within and prevent us from seeing Baba who is always present right before us. Prophet Mohammed once said, “Between you and me there are forty-nine veils. Between Me and you there are no veils.” This is our challenge: to work with Baba at dissolving these veils through ceaseless effort until He is seen face-to-face. The rare and fleeting glimpses we may experience of Baba have to one day become abiding and permanent. To do this, we have to give up many desires and delusions along the way. Thankfully, in compensation we enjoy an increasing measure of inner freedom in spite of the inevitable pain. There is a Sufi line that says, “As long as I feel You here inside of me, I cannot say I am suffering.” It may take decades for the truth of these words to dawn in us. Knowing He is here with us is such an unspeakable privilege which fortifies our endurance to continue the seemingly insurmountable challenges of this inner divine journey.

    Darwin defines these veils as “sanskaric thought-patterns” that stand between us and the ever-present vision of the divine within. On an overcast day, we say the sun isn’t out, but when the clouds lift, we see it was there all along. The fastest way to eliminate these veils is to give to Baba all our emotional complexes and misconceptions that fuel the veil-making machine. Psychological and spiritual work on ourselves is helpful, but tuning in to Baba’s presence and giving Him our shortcomings and weaknesses and even our attachment to good is the fastest way to dissolve our veils. Darwin used to say, “The deeper the feeling, the deeper the healing.”

    Fortunately, we have a natural and intrinsic longing for a freer life full of substance and love that drives us on, which is really Baba’s very personal, active and magnetic influence from behind the veils. Kitty Davy used to quote Rumi as saying, “I never knew that God too desires us.” She found that Baba was more eager to unite with them, the early Western disciples, than they were with Him.

    Over time, often taking decades, these internal veils gradually begin to dissolve through our efforts and Baba’s grace. We begin to see within and develop intuition, insight, inspiration and eventually illumination in the course of our journey. The process is like lifting the hood of the car and observing first-hand the mechanics of the engine and making critical repairs as we go along. In this, we might experience the feeling that Baba is moving closer to us, but it is really the other way around, that we are drawing closer to Him—He is already infinitely close to us. Complexes like unworthiness, our innumerable likes and dislikes and worldly addictions have to be let go of in order to move more deeply into Baba’s intimate being. People are naturally lulled into thinking they have finally succeeded in life when, in Darwin’s words, they have “harmonized” with their sanskaras, whereas the real challenge before us is to harmonize with our own inner divinity which is our Beloved Baba!

    Dear one, where did you ever find the courage

    to seek such a Beloved when you know

    He has annihilated so many like you before!

    - Rumi

    In His love, Jeff

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    1 時間 28 分
  • Sharing your Silence Day experiences, July 12, 2025 live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/12

    Anything to share about how Silence Day went for you?

    Hosted by Betty Lowman in CA

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    1 時間 5 分
  • Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton: Baba’s Gift of His Silence, July 6, 2025, live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/11
    We have some informal chat after every arti, the "post-arti party"! But once a week, Jeff Wolverton joins us for some serious mining of the spiritual depths. Join us for conversation, more readings, songs, quotes - you never know what treasures will be uncovered! Dear folks of Baba, As we approach the 100th Anniversary of Baba’s silence which He began on July 10, 1925, I thought it would be valuable to focus in depth on something so central and integral to His work. Are there quotes, poems, songs or stories about His silence that have a special meaning for you? Is there some way that His silence has a significant place in the quiet of your inner life? Here are two stories about Baba’s silence that made a powerful impact on me. Both come from what I heard Eruch share over the years in Mandali Hall. Fortunately, one of the stories is in print in Eruch’s own words, but the second story is only as I remember him relating it in Mandali Hall some forty or fifty years ago. The first story, I believe, took place at Meherazad. Earlier, apparently, Eruch had criticized one of the servant boys in a loud voice. Later in Mandali Hall, Baba asked the men mandali seemingly out of the blue: "Why do people shout at one another when they are angry?" We said, "They shout because they are angry and they want to express their anger," and Baba responded, "Yes, they can express their anger that way, but even if someone is seated at their side they will shout at that person. Could they not speak softly?" We volunteered different explanations, saying different things which came to mind at the time, but our answers did not satisfy Baba. So, He gave us the answer: "When a person is angry with another person," He said, "that person is far removed from his heart and distance is created between them. That's why the physical reaction is to shout, and the greater the distance, the greater is the shouting. Love disappears and one goes on shouting at the other who in turn barks back at him. Then he barks and so it goes on and on." But Baba did not stop there as He doubtlessly wanted us to see the same thing from a different angle. So, He continued, "Now take the other case of two people in love. When two individuals are in love with each other, how do they speak?" "They speak softly," we answered. "Yes," Baba agreed, "they do speak softly and the greater the love between them, the softer is their tone of speech. And when they are still further in love, no words are needed and they just look at each other, and eventually there is not even the need to look — no need at all." Eruch continued, “Well, that is the reason why Meher Baba observed silence. There was no need for an exchange of words. It was very good to hear that, to be reminded that He was so very close to us; as He has said, "I am closer to you than your very breath." The second story may also have taken place in Mandali Hall. Sometimes Baba would put a question before the men to see what they would say. On this occasion, He asked them, (this is my paraphrase and not Baba’s actual words, but the gist of what He said), “People talk all day. Where do all the words go?” The men gave a variety of answers such as the words just disappear into thin air. The question went around the hall and each ventured a guess, but Baba was not satisfied. Eventually, He said, “All the words collect like clouds and hang over whole cities [like air pollution, my words]. All over the world, this happens. My silence is to absorb all that noise so that each one can hear the voice of their own soul.” I took this to mean that Baba’s silence is definitely not a spiritual exercise for His own sake, but a monumental work of taking the all-pervasive noise of the world upon Himself and transmuting it into silence so that we can turn inward and hear the voice of our own soul. Bearing this out, Eruch quoted Baba referring to His silence," What a binding it is!" But Eruch added, “It was a binding with a purpose — for our sake.” This is as I remember from years ago the scene that Eruch described with Baba and the men that day. In 1941 in Baba’s last meeting with Upasani Maharaj, Upasani, with tears in his eyes, begged Baba to end His silence. To me this meant that Baba must be enduring unspeakable suffering in remaining silent for the sake of His work for the world. Please feel free to share your thoughts and feelings about Baba’s silence. HAPPY SILENCE DAY! When asked when Baba is going to break His silence, Eruch once said, “When your heart cracks open and you begin to speak from your heart, then in you His silence has been broken.” In His love, Jeff To join the email list for Late Night Chats, contact Angela To be first to be notified of a new video on this channel, please hit the red subscribe button, then the notifications bell. To join future live events, see www.babazoom.net.
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  • Charles Haynes Silence Day Message, July 9, 2025, live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/10

    a Silence Day message by Charles Haynes

    Hosted by Betty Lowman in CA

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    1 時間 22 分
  • Silence Day quotes sharing meeting, July 6, 2024, live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/10

    Come prepared to share your Silence Day Quote (sent via email to those listed in the Baba Zoom Community Directory)

    Or bring your own favorite Baba quote!

    Hosted by Betty Lowman in CA, on behalf of Baba Zoom.

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    1 時間 31 分
  • Sahavas for Everyone: Baba’s Silence, July 2, 2025 live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/10

    Sahavas for Everyone. First and third Wednesday of the month.

    Avatar Meher Baba is in each one of us. And His Love is the focus of this gathering. Open discussion with each session having a topic or theme. Hosted by Laurent Weichberger in SC. Today we discuss Meher Baba's Silence.

    Jai Baba!

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    46 分
  • Nick Principe ”Sharing Baba’s Kindness,” July 7, 2025, live on Baba Zoom
    2025/07/08

    Nick will tell stories he heard from the Mandali, in the context of trying to live a life of the spirit. Questions and comments welcome!

    Hosted by Diana Goodheart in NC

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    53 分