DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

 

BABA'S  SILENCE

 

18th June 1925

 

 

Baba mentioned his upcoming silence on the 18th June, stating "Within a few days, I will begin keeping silence.  All to remember to hold fast to me, no matter what."

 

 

 

 

8th July 1925

 

On the 8th July, Baba convened a meeting of the men mandali at Meherabad, and instructed every person for over an hour about their duties, for the forthcoming year of silence. Some close ones from Bombay came, matters about the school and the property were mentioned on the following day.

 

 

Behramji, Rustom K, Arjun, Gustadji and Padri  were the only men allowed to speak to Baba at certain times each day. Many directives were made throughout the day, including when he told Gulmai, "There will be another world war*, it will be much more destructive and extensive than the one before. Rivers of blood will flow ! I will dip my kerchief into that river of blood and tie it around my head !  Not until the world cries for God will I give up my silence !"

 

 

 

* WW2 began in 1939, some 14 years after Meher Baba mentioned it.

 

 

 

 

9th July 1925 :

 

 

 

When the teacher Pandoba pleaded with Baba, that if he became silent, people would no longer have the opportunity to hear what he had to declare, and the world would be deprived of his teachings.

 

Meher Baba replied,

 

 

 

"I have come not to teach but to awaken !"

 

 

 

These were to be his last words to anyone outside of his circle, and this message was the meaning of his divine mission to the world.

 

 

The evening of the 9th July, he went to the women's quarters at the Post Office building and conveyed his final verbal instructions:

 

 

"Now listen to my last words because from tomorrow I will keep silence for one year. Attend to your duties with love and fulfill them with all your heart. Cook for the children at the school as if they were your own." "I have much to do for the world. When my work is done, I shall speak."

 

 

 

 

 

11 April, 1927

 

 

Someone asked Baba the reason for his continued silence. He explained:

 

It is not without reason or spiritual significance that I have observed silence for so long. It is to lessen the difficulties and bear the burden of my circle members, who are to be God-realized and who otherwise would have had to undergo certain physical afflictions.

I will continue the silence and eventually become so physically disabled as to be unable to eat and drink — so much so that my face will be like a shrunken skull, and my hands and feet will look as if paralyzed. This will be the last stage of my suffering, and after that I will open my mouth and begin to speak.

 

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