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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...
...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...
...circumstances the New College got off to a relatively good start. By the middle of May, we had set up about thirty discussion groups. The group leaders ranged in academic status from professors to freshmen; their topics ranged from the "Philosophy of Wittgenstein" to the "Tapes of the Baba Ram Dass," and included a whole lot in between. Several hundred Harvard and Radcliffe students attended one or another of the groups before exam time rolled around. Many discovered a whole new dimension of meaning and excitement in these educational experiences...