Conversations about Meher Baba

Born : 4th September, 1903 - Ahmednagar, MS., India Died : 4th March, 1980 - Andra State, India Interred : Lower Meherabad, MS., India Parents : Kaikhushru Sarosh Irani & Gulmai Irani Siblings : Rustom K., Piroja K., Dolly K. Today we will celebrate his life with Baba! A short presentation will be followed by potluck sharing: each of you bring a story about him and by the end of it, we will have had a feast! Hosted by Diana Goodheart in NCThis event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Today we'll hear Kitty stories from the then-young people who were her helpers and friends at Dilruba, her home at Meher Spiritual Center. Cathy Riley, Lois Breger, Janet and Bill Files, Barbara Katzenberg and Jay Schauer will share heartwarming memories of their times with this delightful lady, whom Baba loved so much!Born : August 28, 1891 - Kensington, London, England Died : December 3, 1991 (aged 100) - 4:50 am - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,United StatesBuried : Upper Meherabad (near Baba's tomb/samadhi ), IndiaHosted by Betty Lowman in CAThis event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Born : October 13, 1916 - Bombay, IndiaDied : 31st August, 2001 - 2:31 AM - Meherazad, IndiaBuried - Interred : Men's Cemetery, Lower Meherabad, MS., IndiaWe started with a video or two and opened for participants to share.Hosted by Meher Kiran in IL. Thumbnail photo taken by A. Zois.This event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Jack Becker ❤“To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others – by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity, and beauty – this is the sole game that has intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents, and attainments in themselves can have no lasting importance.”~ Meher Baba (In Discourses)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. Jai Baba!This event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Meher Baba's sister Mani was dearly loved by all of us "young ones" who met her in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. We journeyed "home" to Meherabad/Meherazad to learn of Baba, and were greeted by Beloved Mehera and Mani and all the dear Mandali members, who helped us feel in our hearts that we were part of Baba's family. Join us today as we remember Mani with love. Bring your reminiscences, stories, songs, poems, and silly jokes. Let's recall this effervescent, charming, funny, quick-witted lover of God. She passed away on August 19,1996.Hosted by Diana Goodheart and Betty LowmanTo 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Bob Ahrens and Wendy Kura, who both spent considerable time working with Dr. Goher, will share their experiences working with her. If you also have Dr. Goher stories, please bring them to share.Born : 3rd August 1916 - Quetta, British India ( now Pakistan )Died : 30th June 2004 - 12:40 pm - Meherazad, Indian ( 87 yrs ) - congestive heart failureBuried : cremated 1st July at 10 am. and interred on Meherabad Hill near Baba's Samadhi.Parents : Rusi Jehangir Irani & Khorshed Banoo IraniSiblings : Katie Irani & brother - Jal RusiNationality : IndianHosted by Betty Lowman in CA

Born : July 26, 1896 - Chicago, Illinois, USADied : Dec. 6, 1980 - Myrtle Beach, SC, USABuried : Her urn was placed in her grave in Upper Meherabad, MS, India - 10th March 1981Married : Kenneth Patterson - date : November 9, 1929, Died ; March 30, 1956. They lived separately since the early 1930s Parents : ( Father ) - Simeon Brooks Chapin ( Mother ) Elizabeth MattocksCharles Haynes talks about Elizabeth Patterson and shares stories and photos.Hosted by Diana Goodheart in NCThis event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Sahavas for Everyone, third Thursday 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. Special Guest: The Avatar and the Five Perfect MastersVanessa and Laurent will discuss the advents of the Avatar and the five perfect masters for each Avatar based on beloved Baba's explanations. We have a special surprise show and tell. Jai Baba!Hosted by Laurent Weichberger in SC. This event was recorded live. 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. Please join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/meherbabafamily

Born : 20th July, 1908 - Lake Luzerne, New York, USA Baptized : Lutheran church in Lake Luzerne, New York Died : 2nd October, 2005 - Asheville, Nth.Carolina,USA Married to Jeanne Kitler Parents : Aaron & Helen ShawDarwin's Children: Lowell, Leatrice and Renae. Jeff Wolverton will be our special Babazoom guest this Sunday, July 19 at 4pm, EDT. Don't miss it! Jeff will share reminiscences of his longtime relationship with Darwin Shaw, whose birthday is Monday, July 20. . Over many years, since the 70s, Jeff has cherished his special friendship with Darwin. He will have stories to tell about his early times with Darwin, and he is anxious to hear your stories about how Darwin impacted your life with Baba. Please come and bring your stories! Hosted by Betty Lowman in CA

The Journey of Consciousness Culminating in Divine Love The spiritual journey of consciousness, lovingly guided personally by Baba, proceeds through lifetimes from the head down to the heart, and from the heart ultimately into the soul, the “realm of the spirit” as Darwin refers to it. The base of operations for most people is located in the head, the mind, the realm of thoughts, beliefs and theories. Life is seen through the lens of right and wrong, good and bad, spiritual and unspiritual, loving and not so loving. Sooner or later, we become painfully aware of our cramped and limited mental world of time and space as well as the frustrating tension of the opposites. We’ve habitually turned to the mind to tell us what to do and what is important in life, and we find ourselves harassed by thoughts all day long. Eventually, Baba brings home to us the limitations of seeing and reacting to life through the narrow lens of the mind, and coaxes our inner awareness down to the realm of the heart, inspired by His love. Unfortunately, much of this awakening comes through experiences of heartbreak and disappointment. Nevertheless, we gradually find ourselves in a much more expansive place. We are in the realm of emotions, desires, and the deeper feelings, initially a cauldron of powerful forces and impulses that are overwhelmingly difficult to control. Yet compared to the mind, which one might think of as three-dimensional, our base of operations in the heart is multi-dimensional. As the Sufi poet, Hafiz, once wrote, “The mind cannot occupy the throne in the palace of the heart. It can only be its doorkeeper.” In the heart, there is more substance, it is more spacious, and we enjoy flashes of timelessness and, as Baba has said, “fleeting moments of union with God.” Intuition begins to replace the mind as the arbiter of what we do. In one part of the heart, the superficial layer, resides the negative emotions such as anger, jealousy, greed, envy, fear, resentment, sadness, and hurt. And there are also deep-rooted desires and multifarious wants. In all of these, we feel a narrowing down of life. We feel small. Now begins our inner work, and it requires tremendous tolerance to remain consciously in the heart and not continually retreat up into the mind. As Rumi says, we become “a wound without a shield.” But with our persistent and painstaking efforts, Baba begins to transmute these lower selfish reactions to life into loving responses, the divine qualities such as: anger into patience, greed into generosity, desires into purity, resentment into forgiveness, entitlement into gratitude, self-centeredness into empathy and compassion. After many years of inner focus, however, we are astounded to find that even the heart itself is too small! The heart, in its greatest depths, has this profound limitation: it divides life into me and other, me and nature, me and Baba—it splits creation into two. In the mind, the soul is stuck living in a veritable shack. In the heart, it lives in a great mansion, spacious and with windows that can look out on the timelessness of life. But eventually the soul can no longer breathe in this limited, divided space of the heart. It feels suffocated, and longs for oneness. This is when Baba, who provides all the necessary inspiration, begins to draw our consciousness directly into the soul itself. If living at the level of the heart is compared to residing on the rugged terrain of the earth, rising to the level of the soul is like viewing the earth from above, from a transcendent place of oneness, in a most loving place within that still maintains its compassionate participation in the ups and downs of life. The soul has an intimate view of our heart interacting with others and the world. It experiences life as a glorious loving whole; it dissolves our separateness into a supreme completeness. As Rumi, the great Sufi mystic once said, “If the door of your soul were to open for an instant, you would see that the heart of every existent thing is your intimate friend.” At first, as Baba has said, our experiences of the soul are fleeting, a brief and yet sometimes overwhelming experience. As years goes on, we are able to spend more and more time in the soul where we merge for longer periods with Baba and experience His magnificent sweet love. We begin, as Darwin has said, to change our address from the heart to the soul, from living in a mansion, so to speak, to being in the boundless expanse of all creation. From the world of form and space, we dissolve in what Rumi calls “the spaceless.” From living in the world divided into myriad forms, we inherit a glorious unified vision. At last, we fall back into Baba’s loving all-embracing arms, whole and complete.Rumi says it beautifully,“The roads are different, but the destination is one. All those who yelled at each other along the way, ‘You hypocrite! You infidel!’ in the end, drink from the same keg of wine and laugh out loud!”