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Late night chat centered around our Beloved. A sharing of hearts.

Jai Baba all!

Bif is unavailable to finish the second half of the virtual tour this week due to a birthday celebration happening for Mehera at Meherazad in the morning. He will be joining us again in the new year on Jan 5 to finish it up, so stay tuned!

This week, however, we will celebrate Mehera's birthday together with an open sharing of stories. I want to highlight that this is not meant just to be reserved for people who had the pleasure of meeting Mehera, although those stories are of course welcomed. What is your inner experience of the Feminine side of God? Have you had dreams? Is there resistance or fear surrounding Mehera? Do you feel Her love and presence as much as you feel Baba's? Do they play different roles? Have you had a mystical experience with her or felt deeply connected to Her physical form?

Very much looking forward to this sharing and can't wait to see how we honor the Queen!

In His Love,

Margi

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Late night chat centered around our Beloved. A sharing of hearts

Jai Baba all!

Thank you so much to all of you who tuned in for last week's chat with Bif. We have a special treat for you all this week. Bif will tour Toka, Aurangabad, and Valley of the Saints virtually with all of us.

This is a trip that Bif has given nearly 100 times to pilgrims who visit Meherabad and want to see some of the sites Baba visited. This tour was originally one that Eruch would take pilgrims on and Bif took it upon himself to remember all the stories Eruch would tell and continue them. Many who have visited Meherabd have taken this trip, but may not know all the stories. I have had the pleasure of joining Bif on a few of these trips and each time he shares the stories it feels like a real-life account of being there with Baba. Many of the stories on this tour are from Baba's New Life.

Some of the sites are:

The Imampur Mosque

Toka on the Godavri

The Catholic Cemetary in Aurangabad

Daulatabad Fort

The Ellora Caves-Cave 10 in particular

Valley of the Saints

Darga of Raju Kutar Hosseini

Mosque of Zar Zari Zarbash

Sai Baba's Cave

These stories are priceless. Looking forward to going on a virtual journey with you are all this week!

In His Love,

Margi

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We have some informal chat after every arti, the "post-arti party"! But once a week, Jeff Wolverton joins us for some serious mining of the spiritual depths. Join us for conversation, more readings, songs, quotes - you never know what treasures will be uncovered!

The Topic: Our Real Work

Dear folks of Baba,

We are continuing in the chapter on “Our Real Work” in Effort and Grace on page 101. In this chapter, Darwin introduces Baba's work of opening our hearts to the divinely human qualities within and expressing them in our day-to-day life. How do we access the divinely human qualities—such as patience, generosity, humor, empathy, courage, enthusiasm and honesty—from within the deeper recesses of our heart and live from there? How do we distinguish these qualities from the lower currents of the emotions, desires and impulses that are clamoring to be expressed? This is the inner battle we struggle with: the competing forces of our nature. We have spent lifetimes habituated to giving in to the lower currents and now we are having to make heroic efforts to transmute these into the loving currents of our higher nature.

Here is a quote written by Mani, Baba’s sister, in her own handwriting. I am not sure if they are her words, but clearly they are her sentiments:

Why were the saints, saints?

Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful,

patient when it was difficult to be patient, and because they pushed when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all.

It was quite simple and always will be.

It is clear from these words that great efforts must be made, but thankfully this ongoing struggle gives our life meaning, and we have the satisfaction of gradually making progress over the years in accessing the divinely human qualities that flow from Baba. Behind the scenes, He provides the inspiration and insight to persevere in this Real Work.

One of the illusions we have to rise above is equating good or virtue with love. Although our standards of good/bad or virtue/vice that we inherited from our conditioning (our sanskaras) have been helpful guides along the way, we have to eventually access Baba’s love, which originates from beyond the sanskaras; that is, this love, which starts out pure, must express itself through our sanskaras, and in the process often gets distorted and diminished. Victor Hugo, the French novelist, once wrote, “Virtue, as in the case of vice, is a calculated action. But love is not calculated. It wells up in the heart and expresses itself spontaneously.” Baba has made it clear that “good is not the goal.” Once, in one of my early trips to India, Eruch said to me, “The accumulation of virtue is not the goal.” His words were life-changing.

How do we open ourselves to this higher love? What ways have worked for you? Have you seen in your own life the distinction between good and love? Have you noticed that with good and virtue, there are always strings attached? What is required is to become more and more a vehicle for the free and spontaneous flow of love, with no calculation or selfish ulterior motive.

In His love, Jeff

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