Q: What Are His Activities?

A: He helps the poor and the afflicted.

• He gives spiritual discourses to his disciples who live with him.

 

• He gives darshan to the public when he is not in seclusion.

 

• When he is not in seclusion, he gives interviews to his lovers who come from distant places and different countries to be with him. He also gives personal attention to the large amount of correspondence that comes to him from his followers all over the world, and particularly from the hundreds of Meher Centers in India and abroad that spread his Message of Love and Truth.

 

• When he is in seclusion he does not attend to such matters, wishing to remain undisturbed for reasons of his universal work. Although he continually does his universal work on all levels of the inner planes of consciousness, at specific periods when his universal work is stepped up to a greatly intensified degree, he retires into strict seclusion.

Sometimes when he is in seclusion he washes the feet of the lepers because he says that he finds them beautiful souls in ugly cages. Because he himself suffers infinitely, those who suffer are dear to him.

Q: Does He Give Special Prayers Or Meditation?

A: Yes, he has given two prayers to mankind;

(a) The Master's Prayer (0, Parvardigar). (b) The Prayer of Repentance. He does not lay stress on any form of meditation. He stresses remembering him wholeheartedly and constantly while at-tending to our daily duties. This, he says, is the best form of meditation. However, he has given some discourses on meditation, as well as two Charts called The Divine Theme".

Q: Why Doesn't He Have An Ashram Where Anyone Can Go For His Darshan Freely?

A: He says that the whole Earth is the Ashram of the God-man and that his REAL DARSHAN can only be had within oneself by his Grace. However, when he is not in seclusion, he is available to all who seek his darshan, at the times fixed by him — mainly when he is residing in Poona during May and June each year.

Q: Why Doesn't Meher Baba Perform Miracles?

A: Miracles when performed to exhibit occult powers are nothing more than a passing show - a tamasha.

Meher Baba's miracles are performed silently in the hearts of his followers, awakening them to the spiritual values and true purpose of life.

Meher Baba says that God is to be known through love and not through the illusion of