Late Night Chat with Jeff: Mehera, Baba’s Beloved, Dec 22, 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!

Dear folks of Baba,

This Sunday is the 117th Anniversary of Mehera’s birth, Baba’s Beloved, whom He referred to as “The purest Soul in the Universe.” Of her, He has said, “She is My very breath without which I cannot live.” “Mehera and I are One.” “Mehera loves Me as I should be loved.” With all this praise from Baba, in meeting her one felt a total absence of self-importance—in her eyes, Baba was all-important, the One she lived for day and night, from her early teenage years until she passed on 82 years later in 1989. For those who met her and spent time with her, she radiated a love that very few of us have ever experienced, a love so heavenly and yet so very personal. Anyone in her presence witnessed her all-loving eyes full of her one-pointed attention and grace. There was no one like her!

Some of Baba’s followers and close ones think that this was her last life in Creation, that in passing she joined Baba forever, and there are others who think of her as His eternal counterpart, that she is with Him each time He comes, as she had once disclosed to one of Baba’s Western women. In this latter view of Mehera, this would mean that, among others, she had been Mary Magdalene in the time of Jesus, Sita in the time of Lord Ram and Radha in the time of Krishna. However one thinks of her, she is the embodiment of the highest love for Baba, ever encouraging us to lay down our lives and all our love at Baba’s feet as she had done. She is the living inspiration of what it means to love our Beloved.

Now on her birthday, we invite anyone to share any experiences they have had of her, either when physically with her or since her passing. What was it like being with her, what are some of the exchanges? Are there any stories from her life that have touched you deeply? How has Mehera’s life and loving example impacted your life in Baba?

In 1967 at Meherazad, Francis Brabazon, one of the resident mandali, wrote this in a poem which was read out to Mehera and Baba by one of the women mandali:

I sing of you, Mehera, belov’d of the Beloved of all mankind.

Before He began the creation the Beloved created you To mirror to Him His love so that He would know it ever anew.

Francis ends with these words:

The Beloved because of a whim, caused the whole creation to be.

In a One-word poem He contained it—you are its melody.

I sing of you, Mehera, belov’d of the Beloved of all mankind.

In His love, Jeff

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