"The inaudible sound is from heart to heart..."

Your Friday photo is in honor of Silence Day, July 10th.

Silence Day is when followers of Avatar Meher Baba keep silence for 24 hours.

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“Those who have been in his presence know that Baba communicates through his silence. What proceeds from him is beyond words, does not need words, could not be contained in them. The inaudible sound is from heart to heart; silence that penetrates mind and heart.”

— C.B. Purdom, Author of The God-Man

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Avatar Meher Baba began His silence on July 10, 1925. He said that His silence was not undertaken as a spiritual exercise, but solely in connection with His universal work.

After Meher Baba started His silence, He communicated by writing on a slate board.  After that, He pointed to letters on an alphabet board to spell out words. Later, He used a series of hand gestures that were interpreted by His close disciples.

He kept silence for 44 years until He dropped His body on January 31, 1969.

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Photo

Avatar Meher Baba, Bangalore, India, sometime between October 1939 to April 1940. Photographed by Bhaiya Panday. MSI Collection. Used with permission.

Quote

C.B. Purdom, The God-Man: The Life, Journey and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of his Silence and Spiritual Teaching, Second Edition, second printing with corrections (2010), Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook, June 2011, pg. 410. ©1964 C.B. Purdom, ©Meher Spiritual Center, Inc.

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"I want you to remain undisturbed and unshaken by the force of life's currents..." - Meher Baba

Your Friday photo is in remembrance of Avatar Meher Baba’s automobile accident in Prague, Oklahoma, on May 24, 1952…

Avatar Meher Baba and His mandali (close disciples) were traveling from the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Meher Mount in Ojai, California, for a planned nine-day stay.

On the morning of May 24, 1952, near the town of Prague, OK, Avatar Meher Baba suffered a severe automobile accident.

“…the personal disaster, for some years foretold by me, took place in the form of an automobile accident while crossing the American continent… It was necessary that it should happen in America,” Meher Baba said.

He explained that this accident would “result in benefit to the whole world."

The date of this event was foretold by Meher Baba many years earlier. During His first trip to America in 1932, He gave Elizabeth Patterson a small pink wildflower telling her to always keep the flower and write down the date—that someday she would know the meaning.

It wasn't until years after the accident that Elizabeth rediscovered the flower He had given her that day. She had placed it in a family bible and wrote next to it the date, "May 24, 1932," exactly 20 years before the fateful day she would be driving Baba when the accident occurred. 

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Credits

• Quote: Meher Baba Calling, pg. 44, 1992 ©Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.

• Photograph: Avatar Meher Baba, Poona, India, 1952. ©Meher Nazar Publications, Ahmednagar, India.

Sources

• Wayne Myers, “…the personal disaster, for some some years foretold by Me took place…”, Meher Mount Story Blog, published May 23, 2017.

• “Meher Baba’s Accident in America,” Avatar Meher Baba Heartland Center.

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"It's not a battle... it's a balancing."

Your Friday photo…

A charcoal drawing of Avatar Meher Baba by Diana Le Page greets guests as they arrive in the Visitor Center at Meher Mount. Temporary caretaker Robert Turnage captured this image of shadows created by the winter morning light.

“It’s not a battle… it’s a balancing.”

— Adi K. Irani, Meher Baba’s close disciple

"In the 24 years I have lived at Meher Mount, I’ve come to think there is a battle going on here between the light and the dark,” lifetime caretaker Agnes Baron told Adi K. Irani, Meher Baba’s close disciple, in 1970.

“Agni, It’s not a battle between the light and the dark ,” Adi responded. “It’s a balancing.”

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Source

Sam L. Ervin, “A Balancing of the Light and the Dark,” Meher Mount Story Blog, published August 20, 2017, accessed online March 22, 2024.

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