Remember that the first step in spirituality is not to speak ill of others. All human beings have weaknesses and faults. Yet they are all God in their being. Until they become Realized, they have their imperfections. Therefore, before trying to find faults in others and speaking ill of them, try to find your own weaknesses and correct those.

LORD MEHER, Vol. 6 & 7, Bhau Kalchuri, p. 2506
1994 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust

The Four Journeys

In reality these four journeys are never journeyed, for God has nowhere to journey.

Direct Journey To God

The masses who try to attain the Truth by following rites and rituals are, as it were, in the goods train which is detained indefinitely at various stations.

A Journey Without Journeying

When you awake you find that the Great Dream containing all the varied illusory aspects of dreaming, has vanished forever.

Stepping Out Of The Boundary Of Your Nature

Dust has no thought of its own, whether it is trampled upon, or applied to the forehead of a man, or remains suspended in air or water.

To Obey Me Is Like Riding Your Own Shoulders

"Baba, why don't you give us your grace so that we could obey you?" I ventured to suggest.

The Final Account

When the goal of life is attained, one achieves the reparation of all wrongs.

The Shock Of Their Lives

Truth never fails, and lovers of God will soon triumph.

It Is Not Necessary To Have A Complete Map

On the contrary, insistence upon having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march.

The Unerring Voice of Love

The best of all forces, which can overcome all difficulties on the way, is the love that knows how to give without need to bargain for a return.

All Strength Freed From All Weakness

You have had innumerable forms as man and woman, beautiful and ugly, strong and weak, healthy and sickly, powerful and helpless, and now you are here again in another form.

A Widening of Interest, Not A Cutting Down

He wanted one to be fluid and adaptable, to accept the easy and the difficult, unattached to either, with equal poise and cheerfulness.

There Are No Two Kinds Of Faith

In whole-hearted faith, relief will be found from the many sufferings which afflict man.

Mantra/Zikr

A mantra is very beneficial to a neophyte on the spiritual path, particularly so when it is given by the guru.

Throw Everything In The Ocean

I am the Ocean; I can accept both flowers, coconuts and also filth.

What Is Grace?

The time is rapidly approaching when a tidal wave will rise in the ocean of grace.

Baba Allowed Him To Depart

He should be attached to nothing and follow the precept: The wandering yogi, the flowing water.

The Challenge Of Life's Game

A healthy approach to life contains the automatic answer to pessimism over the distance to be traveled.

At This Stage, He Is Blessed

I am the eternal Beloved, drawing the infinite number of lovers to Myself in infinite ways.

In One Sense We Are All Mad

For instance, you think you are the body — you are body-mad. Are you not mad?

To Feel Me All The Time

You cannot feel Me because I am there all the time; I will show you how to feel Me all the time.

Manzils And Muqams

There are seven planes, seven manzils, innumerable muqams in six planes, one muqam in the gross sphere, and one muqam in the sixth manzil. In the fourth plane there is no manzil and no muqam.

Worship From The Heart

It is the act of worship from the heart, and not thoughts and beliefs, that counts in the religious province.

Spiritual Dynamite

If he would know the depths of the ocean, he must be willing to plunge into it.

Be True To Your Duty

Your duty is to keep Me constantly with you throughout your thoughts, speech, and actions.

Making The Brotherhood Of Man A Reality

Nobody is utterly lost and nobody need despair.

Your Own Mouth Must Eat Itself

Those who do not love Me fail to understand Me; and those who do not realize My Divinity fail to understand it.

Gnosis

Gnosis is the internal but actual pathway inside a human being.

Meher Baba's Scent

Your coming here is like a preparation to catch the stealer of your hearts.

Sahaj Dhyan

Do it for four seconds every day, then you will be in the world, yet Baba will be with you all the time.

Conclusion

Therefore, the GOAL is to realize the Reality and attain the "I am God" state in human form.

That Pool Of My Love Within You

When you feel wretched, when you fall in your weakness, have a dip in that pool of love.

The Heart Should Be Linked With God

Sincere devotion gradually creates the thirst to love God, and eventually it results in merging in the Ocean of love divine.

Achieving True Self-Knowledge

There is a beautiful story of a kasturi-mriga, or musk deer, that brings out the nature of all spiritual sadhana.

Feel That You Are Not The Doer

You, as the lower self, are the curtain over your real Self. So what is the way out of this labyrinth, this quagmire?

Be Resigned Completely To His Will

At the most what could happen? You might die.

I Do Not Interfere

I allow vegetarians to follow their diet and nonvegetarians to eat meat, fish, etc.

Self-Effacement Contains The Spiritual Path

If we go blindfolded under the guidance of our Master who is Perfect, and try our best to exercise self-effacement, then we are absolutely safe.

From A State Of Bondage To A State Of Freedom

The gradual unfoldment of good brings in its train love, generosity, and peace.

You Will Find Me There

To follow me, you have not to give up anything. Begin to remember me from where you are, from what you are and how you are, because I cannot be excluded from any area, any vocation, anything.

What Is Spirituality?

It is the undoing of what you have been doing since ages.

Find Your Own Weaknesses

Remember that the first step in spirituality is not to speak ill of others.

The High Roads To God

It should be clear from the very beginning that though the Roads may be many, the Goal is and always will be only one, viz., attainment of union with God.

The Veil Must Be Ripped Off

Seekers advance on their own, but it is ultimately useless, as they inevitably become entrapped.

Expose A Layer Of Vital Awareness

Here is the real task of the aspirant: to pierce through his own layers of self-imposed self-sufficiency and insensitivity so that he may expose a layer of vital awareness to the world about him, which would teach him if it could.

The Only Reality

As compared with dreams, the physical life is indeed a reality. Similarly, compared with the reality of the path, the world and all worldly life is vacant dreaming on the part of man.

Either Love Or Lust

Never think that you have fallen so as not to rise again.

Reverse The Direction Of The Mind

It is, however, very rare for the mind of man to be finally turned away from the allurements of the world.

Unless One Seeks With All One's Heart

What else is life meant for but to love God and become one with Him?

Looking Towards The Future

A very good pattern to be followed by any person wanting to come closer to God.