The nature of meditation and its conditions February 24, 2021, 9:17 PM IST
By Avatar Meher Baba
Meditation has often been misunderstood as a mechanical process of forcing the mind upon some idea or object. Most people naturally have an aversion to meditation, because they experience great difficulty in attempting to coerce the mind in a particular direction or to pin it down to one thing. Any purely mechanical handling of the mind is not only irksome but is bound to be unsuccessful. Many persons who do not technically meditate are oftentimes found to be deeply and intensely engrossed in systematic and clear thinking about some practical problem or theoretical subject. Their mental process is, in a sense, very much like meditation, as their mind is engrossed in intense thinking about a subject to the exclusion of all other irrelevant things. Meditation is often easy and spontaneous in such mental processes, because the mind is dwelling upon an object that it is in
Carlton ‘Haystack’ Raymond York
WEAVERVILLE, NC – Carlton “Haystack” Raymond York, of Weaverville, NC, took wing on Monday, December 1, 2020, at his home with his loving wife, Sheila Ann Bochicchio by his side.
Born November 22, 1957, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he was the son of Peggy Ann Rose Starback York of Gwinn, MI and the late Ovid Volney York.
He is preceded in death by his baby brother, Carl Ovid York on September 24, 1954.
In addition to his mother and his wife, Sheila, of 12 wonderful years, he is survived by his sister; Suzanne Mary York of Gwinn, MI, 4 step children, three grandchildren, two nieces and three grand-nieces and nephew and three God sons. Expressions of sympathy, send to UPAWS.
Meher Baba: The Twilight Songs Experiences of with Naosherwan Anzar Nalavala Meher Baba Part Two
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The Twilight Songs is about all those who have personally met Meher Baba. Those who have spent time with the Avatar and their experiences with Baba. These blogs shall be compiled in the form of a book to be launched in 2021. “Anyway, so I relented and I wrote to Him saying that, I would not come to Him but I would keep prolonged silence and I would meditate and so forth. Another set of instructions came, ‘do not observe prolonged silence, nor meditate, do not serve yourself by doing so. Those who lead a dedicated life in My cause, have no need for such discipline. You are close to Me and you are very dear to Me. I know how you strive to be merged in My love. I want you not to strive, (strive underlined thrice) for this, but to allow your dear love to flow freely to Me in its natural course. Know one most important thing in this spiritual line and that is t
Meher Baba: The Twilight Songs Experiences of with Naosherwan Anzar Nalavala Meher Baba
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The Twilight Songs is about all those who have personally met Meher Baba. Those who have spent time with the Avatar and their experiences with Baba. These blogs shall be compiled in the form of a book to be launched in 2021.
“When did Avatar Meher Baba enter your life?” “I met Meher Baba when I was two months old.” “Who in your family was the first one to meet Meher Baba? How did the journey with Baba begin with your family?” “My father, Kaikobad Rustom Nalavala, known as Keki Nalavala, first heard of Meher Baba in 1930 when he was in a school in Navsari. His school teacher gave him a copy of a book called The Sayings of Meher Baba.”