Word: baba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died in 1892-in the year of his 75th birthday-as Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i religion. In North India in 1894, a child was born. He was named Merwan Sheriar Irani and he died in 1969-in the year of his 75th birthday-as Meher Baba, Avatar of the Baba-lovers. In South India in 1895 a child was born. He was named Jiddu Krishnamurti and he still lives-in this, the year of his 75th birthday-as Krishnamurti, bright mystery born of the Theosophists...
...SIMLA, INDIA in 1966, I inquired after a beautiful woman in town. I learned she was the companion of a young mystic named Baba Krishnaji. I had some good times with them. One of Baba Krishnaji's teachers was Meher Baba. Both Babas took vows of silence and invented original hand gesture languages. Meher Baba said that he would break his silence when the world reached the climax of its wars and chaos. He would speak one Word, end the misery, inaugurate a lasting peace, and travel widely to the nations which would be easier to see him. None...
...public lecture, Harry Kenmore, New York chiropractor and member of Baba's inner circle, said Baba told him that each time a Messiah came to Earth, he manifested one weakness. For instance, Jesus on the cross should not have asked God why He had forsaken him. (Apparently, Baba had not the view of some philologists that, in the mistranslation, "glorify" became "forsake.") Kenmore said he thought that Baba's weakness lay in his failure to break his silence as promised...
...wonder if this admission will become part of Baba scripture. Considering the supreme importance Baba and his followers placed on the speaking of the Word, saying that Baba's weakness was his failure to speak it is something like saying that the weakness of wax-winger Icarus was that he flew too near...
...attributing too much to the city/country split. That these are all my projections, an emblem for my own schizophrenia. That is possible, but so what. Discrepancy is everywhere. In another mood, it could be discussed in terms of human good and evil, but it would make no more sense. Baba Ram Dass says that the mark of Western thinking is that it creates phony insoluble metaphysical dilemmas to keep people upset and working hard. I am told also that the Cubans have abolished the study of Philosophy in University graduate schools, because it has been shown that it tends...