MASTS

Persistence Of Previous Characteristics

Now why does one mast become a jalali, another a jamali, another a mahbubi, and so forth?

He Is Quite Indifferent To It

When the mind does not pay attention to the body, the body, naturally, automatically survives and looks after itself.

Meher Baba's Trip To Allahabad To Touch 7,000 Sadhus

We again realized how Baba really feels so happy in the company of the masts.

God-Mad, God-Intoxicated, God-Merged

In these three types also, greed, anger, avarice and lust do not exist.

Fools Of God

Just before returning to the bus, extraordinary greetings or signals went on between Baba and this mendicant.

Those Who Bear Witness

Nadir Ali Shah, spiritual chargeman of Quetta, March 1941: He refused to come for Baba's contact saying, "My boat will be drowned in that Ocean."

Baba Would Emerge With Face Pale And Tired

The consummation of Baidul's work was, without a doubt, the almost miraculous accomplishment of bringing Chacha all the way from Ajmer to Satara in June 1947.

Like The Perfume Of Flowers

In fact, Baba had us go near him one rather bitter-cold day and we could actually see he was not cold -- his warmth was coming from within.

Spiritual Contacts In Person

Baba explained to us that he was a mast and the spiritual chargeman of Jaipur.

God's Wrath Made Manifest

Perhaps this is an example of God's wrath made manifest through the utterance of one of His children, a powerful jalali mast.

As A Mirror Reflects The Sun

We in our normal consciousness saw only the gleam of his reflection, yet the transformation in him was so apparent and beautiful that it made a response in our hearts.

Out Of Very Many Only One Gets It!

Dhondibua, the mast, when given anything for his material needs, would refuse it saying, "I cannot bear comfort!"

Divine Recognition

Although Meher Baba did not always avoid contact with masts who recognized Him, as a general rule He preferred not to meet them.

Lines And Figures On Baba's Back

During the walk with Baba, the mast was in a state of ecstasy, weeping and chanting the entire time.

Krishna Mast

This is the story of Krishna Mast, who lost all consciousness of the world in search for his Lord and eventually found Him.

Bangalore Ashram

The masts — who must be given everything they ask, as soon as they ask for it — do not make the work any easier.

Chatti Baba

He would sit in any place where loose earth was to be found, and raising cupped hands laden with soil, would release it over his head.

Phulwala

Phulwala was a typical jalali mast of the sixth plane. Baba once said in admiration of him, "Look at Phulwala, with one slap he could raise you in an instant to the sixth plane."

Mohammed

Mohammed was and is a mast in all essential particulars, with this remarkable exception of his having got between one plane and another.

Mohammed the Mast after 63 Years

Having just woken from sleep, he stood up to tie on the red piece of cloth he used as underwear. When he finished tying on his underwear, he told us, he became a deva.

Chinnaswami

Everyone else used to steer clear of this pole, which gave an unpleasant electric shock, but Chinnaswami would hug the pole with both hands and dance round it as if he were having no end of a time.

Chacha

Chacha was living in the squalid and verminous little hovel near Khwaja Saheb's shrine, and was never known to move from it.

Ali Shah

Despite his passion for cigarettes, his blandness, his docility, and his superficially doll-like appearance, he possesses an utterly disarming and childlike quality of simplicity.

A Heart That Is Alive To Love Never Dies

Eric Nadel's tribute to Mohammed the Mast, June 29, 2003.