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Power-Grabs in the Meher Baba World
The Baba world is witnessing once again what has become a powerful theme in Avatar Meher Baba’s Advent. The first Chairman of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Kutumb Shastri, proved to be an embezzler, and in league … Continue reading
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My father is lightning
My father is lightning and my mother sweet rain; her womb the dark, rich earth and my birth joyous pain!
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Let us go then, you and I, and surrender our fear
Let us go then, you and I, and surrender our fear at the feet of the one whose courage has no peer. Let us go and resolve that the coin of our doubt has left us bamboozled, swindled and corrupt. … Continue reading
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Darvish Talks to Nosh Anzar, Part 3
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Wikidpedia: an encyclopedia of Babadumb. Eternal marble clad Petrol Domes
The new Sufism re-Reoriented marble clad Petrol Domes of $40,000,000 schmaltz are emerging from their tremendous excavation in Walmart Creek. It is in these subterranean halls of power that the future spirituality of America will be contrived with a … Continue reading
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O Shiva, how we long for your ecstatic dance
O Shiva, how we long for your ecstatic dance; how we long for the end of our mayavic trance! All the world rotting and little but a high stench; when will the Master his fragrant grace relinquish? All the ice … Continue reading
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Thoughts of a Baba lover on sufi and spiritual healing
Followers (lovers) of Avatar Meher Baba have the incalculable spiritual blessing of having established a connection with the Highest of the High. The Avatar is the same as the Buddha, the Christ, the Prophet and the innumerable incarnations of God … Continue reading
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How to put to sleep the insomniac ego?
How to put to sleep the insomniac ego? My friend, my advice is to cajole the fellow with sweet nothings, and promise eternity and lead him on to the beautiful gallows.
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The true faith that is sight of the Master
The true faith that is sight of the Master is found in the light of his eyes’ luster; what hope for eyes sunken in stone sockets, but they grind to dust by grace and laughter?
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The thirty raucous birds
The thirty raucous birds in search of wise Simorgh, wandered mountain and valley to sing with single tongue.
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