Trev light Bown :- Meher Baba does
sound very much awake and living as Gnani as formless being. But was it really
without a Guru or teacher.
He was student/disciple of Hazarath Babajan for
a 7 year process of spiritual guidance. He had contact with 5 others who he referred
to as "the 5 perfect masters".
Then he
spent 5 years with Upsani Maharaja who himself was a disciple of Sai Baba of
Shirdi.
So it is possible that it was by shaktipat/grace
of Guru that he found enlightenment as well as deep thinking and grasping by
mind.
SK:- When one bifurcates mysticism from Meher Baba’s writing one smells pure
Advaitic essence. He says the innermost self is God. Thus he bases his self on the real self,
which is the soul. Hazarath Babazan was his guru but his spiritual mother. Meher Baba declared 5 Perfect masters. Hazarath Babazan was a real Gnani who
always immersed in the self-awareness. Sai Baba of Shiradi had not accepted any
one as his disciple. But everyone around him considered Sai Baba as their guru
or God. Upasani Baba was one of the many
who considered Sai Baba as his Guru. Meher
Baba went to meet Sai Baba to request
him to accept him as his disciple but seeing Meher Baba, Sai Baba proclaimed as
Parvadigar ( Messiah or Avatar) and did
not accept him as his disciple but sent his to meet Upasani Baba. Sai Baba
never accepted Meher Baba as disciple even though Meher Baba declared Sai Baba
as his Guru. Upasani Baba declared Meher
Baba as his disciple. These are all
mystical business. The Sai Baba and
Meher Baba both were Sufi saints of highest order and also they were Gnanis.
All these inspiring stories of the saints are important in the preliminary
stages of spiritual pursuit but later stages the seeker has to drop all these
because when the seeker gets to know the world is an illusion he will realize
whatever is happening within the world is bound to be illusion. When the whole
universe is made of the single stuff than the form and names within the
illusory world has no value.
Meher Baba declared: - To love God as
he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for god, knowing that the
goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own self. It means find god as
our innermost self -- that is he insisted for self –realization.
Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be
loved, we must love for God and die for god, knowing that the goal of life is
to know God, and find him as our own self.
To realize God is to attain
liberation from the bondage of illusion.
Live only to find and realize your
true identity with your beloved God.
The energy which is expended in mere
thinking, taking or writing is like steam which escapes through the whistle of
railway engine …
That is why the sages have always
insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who
want to know and realize God.
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-----It means one has to
one has to know and realize his inner most self is God and identify it has his
true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of
birth, life, death and world (duality). The goal of our life is to
find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is our innermost
self.
Neither Sai Baba nor Meher Baba were not the product of Shakti Path. Sai
Baba and Meher Baba were real Gnanis for the seeker of truth and also they were
guru or god and Avatara for the ignorant mass. The one who is in the path of wisdom
must observe everything on the soulcentric view point then only they will be
able to realize ‘what is truth’ and ‘what is untruth.
