| Name(s) |
MEHER BABA
(born Merwan Sheriar Irani) |
| Date of
Birth |
February 25, 1894 |
| Date of
death |
January 31, 1969 |
|
Identity |
Indian spiritual
master who said he was the Avatar, God in human form. |
|
Other Events &
Developments |
- At the age of 19, he began a
seven-year spiritual
transformation.
- From 10 July 1925
to the end of his life, he
maintained silence, communicating by
means of an alphabet board or by
unique bodily gestures.
- He spent long periods in
seclusion, during which
time he often fasted.
- He also traveled widely,
held public gatherings and engaged
in works of charity with lepers, the
poor and the mentally ill.
- In 1931, Meher Baba made the
first of many visits to the West,
where he attracted followers.
- In 1962, he invited his Western
followers to India for a mass
darshan called "The
East-West Gathering".
- He taught that the
Universe is imagination,
that God is what really
exists, and that
each soul is really God
passing through imagination to
realize individually His own
divinity.
- His teachings are most
importantly recorded in his
principal books Discourses
and God Speaks.
- His silence has remained
a mysterious issue as much
among his followers as with the rest
of the world.
|
|
Commemorations |
His samadhi (shrine/tomb) in
Meherabad, near Ahmednagar,
Maharashtra, India, has become a place
of international pilgrimage. |
| Other |
This day of July 10 every year is
celebrated as SILENCE DAY,
when his followers maintain
verbal silence for twenty-four hours. |
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