Late Night Chat with Jeff: Goher Mobed, Jan 2, 2024, live on Baba Zoom

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!

Topic: Goher Mobed’s Baba story

Dear folks of Baba,

In the final session of Effort and Grace, we read where Darwin is making the point that we think we are the doer of our efforts but eventually we realize they have been precipitated by Baba all along. I found the quote I was looking for from the Sufi Perfect Master, Bayazid Bistami, that captures Darwin’s point so clearly:

"At the outset I was mistaken in four respects.

I set out to remember God, to know Him, to love Him and to seek Him.

When I came to the end of my journey,

I saw that He had remembered me before I remembered Him,

that His knowledge of me had preceded my knowledge of Him,

that His love for me had existed before my love for Him,

and He had sought me before I sought Him.”

Tonight, we have the good fortune to have with us Goher Mobed, the daughter of Minoo Kharas, one of the early mandali. Growing up within the orbit of Baba’s love, she will share her own meetings with Baba. And there is the story of her father’s poignant search for God, which is unique and very touching, and shows Baba’s most loving response. Feel free to ask her questions as she shares her story.

I am hoping over the next several weeks that some of you, like Goher, will volunteer to share your coming to Baba story. Most of us have been together for years now on Zoom, and I thought it would be interesting and moving to hear how Baba has reeled each of us in. Sometimes even our childhood sense of the divine plays a part in how we experience Baba now. The sharing will be quite informal. You won’t have to memorize anything; those of us listening will ask questions along the way to help draw out your story.

In His love, Jeff

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