Meher Baba Quotes

Don't Worry Be Happy

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

...What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all....

True love is unconquer able and irresistable; and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches. Meher Baba

Mastery in Servitude

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. Thus worry continues to grow into the mental life of man until the ego-mind is burdened by the past. Worry is also experienced in relation to the future when this future is expected to be disagreeable in some way. In this case it seeks to justify itself as a necessary part of the attempt to prepare for coping with the anticipated situations. But, things can never be helped merely by worrying. Besides, many of the things which are anticipated never turn up, or if they do occur, they turn out to be much more acceptable than they were expected to be. Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires. It is a living through of sufferings which are mostly our own creation. Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.

Don't worry Be Happy !!!

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

About the New Life Meher Baba wrote: This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies. This New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one to live it.

مادام که انسان بشناخت حقیقت توفیق نیابد، هیچ بهتر از سنگ و جماد نیست.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding.

روح همانند مرغ و کالبد همانند قفس است. مرغ خارج از قفس آزاد است. لیکن قدر آن و اهمیت آزادی را نمی داند، زیرا زندان را ندیده و نمی شناسد و از استنباط آزادی بیرون از زندان محروم می باشد. با ورود به قفس و چشیدن رنج گرفتاری، چون آزاد گردد، ارزش آزادی و فضای خارج را درک می کند.

Renunciation of desires does not mean asceticism or a negative attitude to life. . . Without avoiding contact with the different aspects of life, maintain complete detachment in the midst of intense activity. - Meher Baba

What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

When mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space, it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the previous lives of evolution from the stone to the human form.

انسان برای جهان موجود نیست، بلکه جهان برای انسان موجود است.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

I belong to no religion, my religion is love and heart is my temple. Always remember that ceremonies cover me, but pure love reveals me.

When the cathedrals fall, my work is done!

If drugs could make one realise God, then God is not worthy of being God. No Drugs! Many people in India smoke hashish and ganja, they colours and forms and lights and it makes them elated. But this elevation is only temporary, it is a false experience of illusion, and serves to take one further away from reality.

جهان چون کودکستان و دبستانی است که مرد بایستی در آن بوسیله زندگانیهای بیشمار و کسب تجربیات از اضداد, چون رنج و شادی, درد و خوشی, خوبی و بدی, ثروت و فقر درسهای روحانی بیاموزد.

اگرچه تبلیغ دین ازسوی پیغمبران، برای رهایی بشر از تنگناها و محدودیتهاست، لیکن خود دین، بواسطه عدم استنباط درست پیروان، بقفس و زندان تنگ و تاریک تغییر ماهیت داده است.

All those who experience the gross world as real are asleep. Only those who experience it as unreal can realise God and become awakened.

Irrespective of their birth labels and belief tables, my blessings to all those who feel themselves to be oppressed, depressed and suppressed from any cause whatsoever!

You are because God is, God is because you are. But that experience one in a million can have.

The question of Meher Baba’s background context has to date been neglected. The devotional movement associated with his name has never shown any interest in antecedents. Former biographers have exhibited an ignorance of philosophical links pertaining to the subject’s ethnic and ideational heritage. These omissions require correction, not least because of the instructive nature of the links discernible.

However, more often than not, the ego gets strengthened and the person affirms, ‘See what a great yogi I am, or I am above the common people because I meditate.’ So something good, as in this case, can become spiritually harmful as it creates more binding.

رهروانی که با انجام مراسم و تشریفات دینی، بمنظور نیل به حقیقت به فعالیت ی پردازند، چنانست که برقطار کندرو سوار می شوند، قطاری که در هر دهکده و گذرگاهی ساعتها توقف کرده، و بدون برنامه در ایستگاه ها معطل می ماند. رهروانی که صمیمانه بتصور و مراقبه پرداخته و زندگانی خود را وقف خدمت مردم می سازند، چنانست که بر قطار عادی سوار می شوند، قطاری که طبق برنامه در کلیه ایستگاه ها مدتی معین توقف می نماید...

the past, to find rescue from the debris left by a series of temporary achievements and failures. - Meher Baba

There is the rather strange coincidence of that at Shirdi, Sakori and Meherabad, the deaths of the venerated saints were believed to change nothing for the devotees. The venerated deceased entities were somehow still alive. Rivalries between sects continued, one difference being that there was no stress on miracles at Meherabad. If one is prepred to credit in any way the relevance of Shirdi Sai, Upasni Maharaj and Meher Baba as mystics, then it is evident that their teachings differed. Their policies differed also. Such details tend to confound the issue of a 'perennial philosophy' as popularly promoted by various writers. One possible conclusion afforded is that the underlying impact of the saint/master is circumscribed by audience capacities, and shaped by some extent by their own temperament.

True love is not for the faint-hearted. Meher Baba

All talk about the path and the goal is as a lantern carried by a blind man. The blind man needs a staff in his hand, the seeker needs his hand in the God-Man's

In Meher Baba, the investigator has the opportunity to view at close range the Iranian spirit divested of Zoroastrian and Islamic dogma and ritualism. He is as much 'Mazdakite' and Zurvanite as he is sufi; he is both ishraqi and irfani (gnostic) in affiliated perspective, and yet at the same time elusive of ready-made labels which require a deeper understanding than customarily awarded them.

For those who are pedantic about classifications, it is perhaps best to describe Meher Baba as a neo-Kaivani, just as the Kaivanis can be termed neo-ishraqi in their departure from Islamic idioms. The gnostic dynamic does not stand still in its intercultural avenues of expression, and indeed, if it does so in a mono-cultural guise, it is likely to be no longer a dynamic but merely petrified conditioning. The easiest thing for anybody to do is to repeat secondhand material; the consequence is generally unenlightened dogmatism, not to mention distortion.