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The Topic: Baba’s Inspiring Intervention

Dear folks of Baba,

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” These are the insightful words of Teilhard de Chardin, a Catholic Jesuit theologian and philosopher, who lived during the first half of the last century. Even though Baba encourages us to be in the world and live a natural life—“To be natural is most godly”—it is important not to lose sight of the fact that in essence we are spirit. It is Baba, through our spirit, who is inspiring us to sublimate our age-old selfish reactions to life and cultivate instead our divinely human qualities, our better angels. In the process, we enjoy Baba’s personal companionship as Darwin describes it: “He is our best friend – and not only our best friend but also our ally, working with each one of us. He has consummate understanding and insight into the sanskaras of each individual, and He really does work within us to expedite our freedom of consciousness.” Darwin was always encouraging us to go for broke, “to accept and believe in the highest possibility in this incarnation” with Baba. Don’t think the journey will take forever. And if our longing is to be with Baba next time He comes, we have the opportunity to work now toward providing “a clear consciousness for His use.”

I once asked Darwin, “What is the biggest mistake the Baba lovers are making?” He replied, without a trace of criticalness, “They think of themselves as small, and they remain small. Think BIG. Think outside even the conventional spiritual box.” In being inwardly more inclusive of all of life-- all the different and whimsical inhabitants of this planet!--our heart expands, and we begin over time to feel ourselves “merge,” as Darwin would express it, with all of life. We move out of our ages-old subjective bubble and experience others as theyexperience themselves. In his latter years, Darwin described his experience as one where “you Iive in and through everyone.” Eruch used to remark from time to time in Mandali Hall, “This whole world is yours, but you have to claim it. Through love, you bring what is outside, inside!” He was implying that it is Baba’s inclusive love that can become ultimately ours. To give an example, if we become an avid bird watcher, and we learn the names of all the birds in our area, their feeding habits, their migratory patterns, how they care for their young, following all this with our binoculars—over time, the birds begin flying inside of us; we’ve incorporated them into our own being. Our heart expands. Just think if we did that for all of humanity!

What strong likes and dislikes in yourself do you feel get in the way of the inclusiveness of your heart? What traits in others that you react to have you seen in yourself?

“To love one soul is like adding its life to your own; your life is, as it were, multiplied and you virtually live in two centers. If you love the whole world, you vicariously live in the whole world.”

Meher Baba

In His love, Jeff

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