Selected Messages

The three messages that follow were given by Meher Baba and underpin many of his core teachings

Universal Message

I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts.

Throughout eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them. Man's inability to live God's words makes the Avatar's teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged crusades in his name. Instead of living the humility, purity and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence.

Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present avataric form I observe Silence. You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them. To get nearer and nearer to God you have to get further and further away from "I", "My", and "Mine". You have not to renounce anything but your own self. It is as simple as that, though found to be almost impossible. It is possible for you to renounce your limited self by my Grace. I have come to release that Grace.

I repeat, I lay down no precepts. When I release the tide of Truth which I have come to give, men's daily lives will be the living precept. The words I have not spoken will come to life in them.

I veil myself from man by his own curtain of ignorance, and manifest my Glory to a few. My present avataric Form is the last Incarnation of this cycle of time, hence my Manifestation will be the greatest. When I break my Silence, the impact of my Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage in his own way. I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of my Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real self.

All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What had to happen has happened; and what has to happen will happen. There was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. I had to come, and I have come. I am the Ancient One.

How to Love God

  • To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.

  • If, instead of seeing faults in others, we look within ourselves, we are loving God.

  • If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others, we are loving God.

  • If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

  • If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think ourselves more fortunate than many many others, we are loving God.

  • If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as His Will, we are loving God.

  • If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are loving God.

  • To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as our own self.

Seven Realities

Meher Baba's teaching gives no importance to creed, dogma, caste systems and the performance of religious ceremonies and rites, but to the understanding of the following seven Realities:

  1. The only Real Existence is that of the One and only God, who is the Self in every (finite) self.

  2. The only Real Love is the love for this Infinity (God), which arouses an intense longing to see, know and become one with its Truth (God).

  3. The only Real Sacrifice is that in which, in pursuance of this love, all things, body, mind, position, welfare and even life itself, are sacrificed.

  4. The only Real Renunciation is that which abandons, even in the midst of worldly duties, all selfish thoughts and desires.

  5. The only Real Knowledge is the knowledge that God is the inner dweller in good people and so-called bad, in saint and so-called sinner. This knowledge requires you to help all equally as circumstances demand, without expectation of reward, and when compelled to take part in a dispute, to act without the slightest trace of enmity or hatred; to try to make others happy, with brotherly or sisterly feeling for each one; to harm no one in thought, word or deed, not even those who harm you.

  6. The only Real Control is the discipline of the senses from indulgence in low desires, which alone ensures absolute purity of character.

  7. The only Real Surrender is that in which the poise is undisturbed by any adverse circumstances, and the individual, amidst every kind of hardship, is resigned with perfect calm to the will of God.