Meher Baba

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Meher Baba, 1941

Meher Baba , b. Merwan Sheriar Irani (born February 25, 1894 in Pune , Maharashtra , † January 31, 1969 in Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra), was an Indian guru and mystic .

Life

Merwan Sheriar Irani, 1941
“Don't worry, be happy” card, 1966

Born as the son of the Zoroastrian Sheriar and his wife Shireen, he met the Islamic "saint" Hazrat Babajan in 1913 . She kissed his forehead. That is the point in time given as his enlightenment. In the next few years he gathered the first disciples around him who called him “Meher Baba”, “Compassionate Father”.

He criticized people yelling at each other: “The bigger the love, the softer the voice.” Ultimately, you don't need any more words.

Therefore, from July 10, 1925, he was silent for the remaining 44 years of his life. In memory of this day, his followers still celebrate the "Day of Silence" today. From then on, he used letter boards and hand signals from 1954 to communicate . He traveled the world in silence and meditated in many holy places. During the Second World War he cared for the mentally ill.

One of his most famous disciples is Pete Townshend , guitarist and songwriter from The Who , who created a musical memorial to him and the composer Terry Riley with the song Baba O'Riley . When Rolling Stone magazine wanted to publish Pete Townshend's text In Love with Meher Baba , Townshend made publication dependent on the issue of Rolling Stone appearing with a cover photo of Meher Baba. Another song that tried to put Baba's philosophy into music is Bobby McFerrin's number one hit, Don't Worry, Be Happy, from 1988. In it McFerrin processed Baba's last words before his vow of silence. They were widely used on postcards and posters in California in the early 1970s.

Fonts

  • Discussion of Life in Love and Truth ; Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-13209-6
  • The divine plan of creation. A spiritual cosmology ; Lotos, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7787-8161-6
  • The nothing and the everything (together with Bhau Kalchuri); Tabula Smaragdina, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9802471-9-1

literature

  • Tom and Dorothy Hopkinson: Much silence. Meher Baba - His life and work ; Sadhana-Verlag, Berlin 1981; ISBN 3-922610-03-X
  • Kevin Shepherd: Meher Baba, an Iranian Liberal , Anthropographia Publications, Cambridge 1986 ISBN 0-9508680-5-1

Web links

Commons : Meher Baba  - album with pictures, videos and audio files