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Another disciple of Inayat Khan, Samuel Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, d. 1971), left with her, but subsequently broke from her when Rabia Martin associated herself with Meher Baba. [18] [19] [20] Meher Baba, with the support of Rabia Martin's successor, Ivy Oneita Duce, reorganized this branch of the Sufi Movement and renamed it Sufism ...
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age. [1] [2] [3] A spiritual figure of the 20th century, [4] [5] he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, with a smaller number of followers in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia.
Meherabad was originally established as an ashram by Meher Baba in 1923. [2] [3] [4] Amartithi is celebrated in Meherabad every year on January 31 commemorating entombment of Meher Baba's physical form on January 31, 1969. [5] The word "Amartithi" was coined by Meher Baba's Mandali and means "deathless day" (Literally, amar, deathless; tithi, day).
Videha Mukti is, according to Meher Baba, the ordinary mukti granted to exceptional people after they die, usually within 3 to 4 days after death. Videha mukta souls experience infinite knowledge, infinite power and infinite bliss only after death while Jivanmukta experience these while alive and also after death i.e., after becoming Paramukta.
Purdom, C B: The God-Man: The Life, Journeys & Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence & Spiritual Teaching, Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Foundation, second printing 2010, pp. 18–21. Shepherd, Kevin R D: Hazrat Babajan: A Pathan Sufi of Poona , New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2014, ISBN 978-81-207-8698-1
Perfect Master is the English term Meher Baba began to use in his writing as early as 1925 [1] to denote the Eastern idea of a sadguru or a qutub ().A Perfect Master, according to Baba, is a God-realized person (one whose limited individualized consciousness has merged with God) who can use his Divine attributes of Infinite Power, Knowledge and Bliss for the spiritual upliftment of others. [2]
Meher Baba - "I am the Avatar of this Age!" [2] "You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar.It is my whole life!" [3] "Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false."
Meher Spiritual Center is a universal spiritual retreat and religious site located in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. [1] The Center adjacent to Briarcliffe Acres was co-founded by Elizabeth Chapin Patterson and Norina Matchabelli in the early 1940s under the direction of spiritual master Meher Baba .