Acknowledgements ................................................................................ 008
Introduction ............................................................................................ 010
A Short Biography of Meher Baba ....................................................... 012
Part ¥°: That¡¯s How It Was .................................................................... 014
Alone .......................................................................................................... 015
Berries ........................................................................................................ 018
Rules ........................................................................................................... 034
Deshmukh ................................................................................................. 046
Einstein ...................................................................................................... 056
Ginde ............................................................................................................. 060
Gustadji ...................................................................................................... 071
Health ......................................................................................................... 088
Impossible ................................................................................................. 097
Kirpal Singh ............................................................................................... 109
Money ........................................................................................................ 116
Parvardigar ................................................................................................ 135
Baba Arrested ............................................................................................ 140
Go Home Directly ..................................................................................... 144
Selfless Service ........................................................................................... 150
Sleep ........................................................................................................... 161
Unfathomable ........................................................................................... 165
Who Is Meher Baba? ................................................................................. 177
Part ¥±: Determined to Be His ............................................................. 182
Natural ....................................................................................................... 184
Tact ............................................................................................................. 201
Money ........................................................................................................ 210
Pollute The Ocean ..................................................................................... 228
Ask For Love .............................................................................................. 236
Meditation ................................................................................................. 248
Traveling With Baba ................................................................................. 251
Guruprasad Incident ................................................................................ 262
Baidul ......................................................................................................... 266
What Should We Do? ............................................................................... 275
Suffering ..................................................................................................... 283
Anchored To The World ........................................................................... 288
Part ¥²: Is That So? ................................................................................ 294
A Good Laugh For Baba ........................................................................... 296
Quaker Oats ............................................................................................... 298
Helping Others .......................................................................................... 301
Sanskaras ................................................................................................ 306
The Ten Circles .......................................................................................... 309
Intimacy ................................................................................................ 313
The Jeweler and the Con-Man ................................................................. 318
Mad and Mast ............................................................................................ 322
Palaces In Heaven ..................................................................................... 324
Early Years ................................................................................................. 331
A Beneficiary ............................................................................................. 333
The Secret .................................................................................................. 335
Honolulu Encounter ................................................................................. 338
Anger ......................................................................................................... 340
Pleasing Baba ............................................................................................. 345
Humiliation and Glorification ................................................................. 350
Pir Fazl Shah .............................................................................................. 353
Beauty and Ugliness .................................................................................. 357
Ayaz ............................................................................................................ 361
Krishna Mast ............................................................................................. 364
The Dhuni ................................................................................................ 367
Jal Kerawala ............................................................................................... 376
The Hijara(hermaphrodite) ................................................................................. 384
Quick Thinking ......................................................................................... 392
The New Life .............................................................................................. 398
Meher Baba¡¯s Divinity ............................................................................... 404
The Pool of Love ........................................................................................ 408
Prayers ....................................................................................................... 410
Slates ........................................................................................................... 416
Meher Baba¡¯s Chappals ............................................................................. 418
Lost In His Ocean ...................................................................................... 421
Honesty ...................................................................................................... 427
Maya ........................................................................................................... 434
Krishna Nair .............................................................................................. 438
Is That So? .................................................................................................. 443
Bibliography............................................................................................. 450
Twenty-One Points Given by Meher Baba .............................................. 452
Twenty-One Points Given by Meher Baba, November, 1962
1. God is absolutely independent. The only way to approach Him is through love, constant repetition of His Name, and invocation of His Mercy.
2. Mercy is God¡¯s nature (swabhav).
3. Bliss is God¡¯s original state (assal halat).
4. Power is God¡¯s existence (astitva).
5. Knowledge is God¡¯s duty (kartavya).
6. The infinite state of God gets lost in the infinite jumble of infinite contradictions.
7. To know God in His infinite contradictions is to become conscious of His consciousness of His unconsciousness.
8. To achieve the God-state, do absolutely nothing while doing everything.
9. To find God you must find yourself lost to yourself.
10. To be infinitely conscious, you must consciously lose consciousness of yourself.
11. Space is the gulf between Imagination and Reality. Evolution of consciousness fills this gulf.
12. Time is the interval between your very-first imagination and your very-last imagination.
13. Where imagination ends God is and Godhood begins.
14. Imagination is an eternal mimicry of Reality effecting the shadow-play of Illusion.
15. God is not anything comprehensible. He is Reality - Consciousness - Absolute Consciousness - Infinite Consciousness.
16. Realization of God is absolute Consciousnes minus consciousness of Imagination. Godhood is Absolute Consciousness plus consciousness of Imagination being imagination.
17. To be ever present with God, never be absent from Him.
18. Do not desire union with God; but long for union till you go beyond longing for union, and long only for the will and pleasure of Beloved God.
19. ¡°Mind may die. Maya may die. Body dies and dies. But hope and thirst never die. Thus has said the slave Kabir.¡±
20. Complete forgetfulness of self is to even forget that you have forgotten.
21. Complete remembrance of God, honesty in action, making no one unhappy, being the cause of happiness in others, and no submission to low, selfish, lustful desires, while living a normal worldly life-can lead one to the path of Realization. But complete obedience to the God-Man brings one directly to God.