“Pure love… is the undying flame that has set all life aglow.”
Avatar Meher Baba
February 25, 1894 - January 31, 1969
Avatar Meher Baba
“Meher Baba” means “Compassionate Father.” It is the name given to their spiritual Master by a group of disciples in the early 1920s when signs of his spiritual status first became apparent. Today, many thousands of people from every religious tradition regard Meher Baba as the one long awaited — the Prophet, the Buddha, the Christ, the Messiah of this age. Most commonly in India, he is referred to as the “Avatar,” a Sanskrit word meaning “descent of God.”
Photo: Meher Baba on front step of Meher House, Sydney, 1956
Photographer: Aubrey Rouse. From the collection of Robert Rouse
"Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation."
~ Meher Baba ~
Discourses, 7th ed, pp. 115-116
Meher House
Sydney
In August 1956 Meher Baba set foot in Australia for the very first time. He came to Sydney, to the house built for Him at Beacon Hill. He also visited Melbourne at this time.
Photo: Meher House, Sydney, 2015
“To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others, by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty -- this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.”
~ Meher Baba ~
c.1940, Discourses v3 p34