You are the Singer . . .

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. . . YOU ARE THE SONG !
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I have become, Meher Baba, a house for You
And You exist in my every part:
I remain a shadow: You, the Eternal Light,
Filling, with Glory, my humble heart.

Can hatred work, when you are present
Always hiding within and without:
If I were to die, will I not rise once more,
With Your Immortal Name as my shout.

"Jai Baba !", I call to heart's content.
Do not cross my humble path:
My ego has been destroyed by Him,
But, can you face His Love's wrath ?

I no more exist because He alone exists
In all planes I thought were mine,
No dart nor missile can search, find me:
In my humility, I am scattered fine.

Can you find me, in His dazzling Light
That blinds both, Untruth and Hate ?
Light of His Love, no human can bear,
Except, when it becomes his Divine fate!

All those living, whether great or small,
All moving and non-moving things,
Always remain enlivened by His Grace:
And, that is why every sufi sings.
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Significance of Eclipses

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THE ECLIPSE

( Meher Baba Explains )


The eclipse is purely an astronomical phenomenon
and needs no explanation.
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There is, however, a germ of spiritual truth
behind the grotesquely colorful imagery of gods and demons,
their squabbles and jealousies for the nectar of immortality,
all ingeniously concocted by the priestclass to flabbergast
the superstitious masses and incidentally to fleece them.

The spiritual aspect of the question is this:
The whole universe, known and unknown, has come out of
a point in the microcosm which may be called
the
Creation Point.
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Simultaneously with this emanation
two processes come into play — evolution and production.
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The differences between the two processes
are rather significant and must be clearly understood.
The process of production is dependent on
the process of evolution in sequence of causation,
but not in the sequence of time.
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Evolution depends on the Creation Point for cause,
but production is dependent on evolution.
Evolution connotes spiritual progress
and production signifies material
growth and change, organic and inorganic.

It is a scientifically acknowledged fact
that the stellar regions, planets and stars,
do exert an influence on the life and activity
of this planet — the earth.
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And since this earth of ours
has the highest evolved organic life,
the human happens to be the nearest
to the spiritual plane;
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the phenomenon of eclipse
does indirectly affect the world spiritually.

The Rishis of old knew all too well
the astronomical basis and the spiritual
influence of such a heavenly occurrence.
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Looking at the average mentality
of the masses of their time,
the Rishis could do no better than issue cut-and-dried
instructions as to prayers, penance and austerities,
investing the whole affair with a religious importance
rather than give a rational and spiritual elucidation.

In course of time
the religious "do's and don'ts" of the wise Rishis
were very cleverly woven round by self-seeking priests,
with a picturesque and awe-inspiring legend
of the gods, demons, nectar, the moon in travail
and its subsequent Moksha (freedom) for purposes
all too patent to thinking minds.
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Such legendary superstitions persist and flourish
with ignorance and illiteracy;
but now people are outgrowing
such childish beliefs.

There is, however, no denying the fact
that a few prayers and ordeals undergone
with keen concentration,
concurrently with the eclipse of the sun or moon,
do result in great spiritual benefit
to the individual concerned.
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TREASURES,
pp. 191-192, ed. Jane B. Haynes
Copyright 1980
Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust

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