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felicitydalton Beautiful collection of songs, poetry, recitations for honouring the Divine, Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai!!
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1.
Now is the time to lay down your cloaks and your daggers, Don't you see that we're under one banner. Now is the time to play out the part that was written Who will care if it's hero or villain. The stage is empty, the lights are dimmed, And the silence is deafening, Don't forsake me, Cos' there ain't a wall dividing us, There ain't a sea that's wide enough. I believe that we're under the same banner, I believe it's later than we think it is, The time has come and change is in the wind. And if you're given the easy lines, And I was struggling to get it right, Don't forsake me, Cos' it may have gone the other way And you may have found it hard to say... I believe that we're under the same banner I believe the stage is set, The lights have dimmed You're standing right in front of him. I believe that we're under the same banner...
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You mean to say you want to walk along that path? You mean to say you want to choose that life, Leaving your comforts at the door like a pair of shoes? I tell you it has all been done for you. Read the stories, read between the lines and think again. Helplessness for example, Can you do helplessness without anger? Can you do hopelessness without despair? Humiliation without resentment, Or humility without being aware? Could you live as one with all the rest in total harmony Without feeling separate? Or be homeless for years without feeling “no one cares”? Or know loneliness without feeling abandoned, Darkness without feeling fear? Hunger without yearning; Thirst without thought; Cold without seeking comfort, And all day in the heat of the sun Without feeling distraught? Could you know suffering without feeling self-pity? Be hurt without feeling sore? Incapacitated without desperation? Sharing what little there is without wanting more? Hard done by without blaming another, Tired without stopping to rest; Hard up without feeling envy, Worthless without the slightest expectation Of ever being acknowledged? Just know it has been done; The immense task accomplished By those steadfast companions And completed to His satisfaction. So when they said to you, “Welcome!” “Welcome home!” “Sit here with us. Stretch out your legs and be comfortable!” Remember what they said we could do – Because all the hard labour has been done for us, The path cleared, steps hacked out in the steep places, Guide ropes set along the dangerous ledges. “Keep your eyes on Him!” they said, “Keep His name in your heart,” Meaning the One who is the most steadfast of the companions, The elder brother, The One who is there for each of us every step of the way. But the path we must take is internal, And the inner work my dear Is up to you.
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This is the Real thing, Beloved - This is the Real thing. This is the Real thing, Baba, You are the Real One. Your tender look has drawn my soul And set my heart aflame with love For you always, Beloved, You are the Real One. This is the Real thing, Beloved - This is the Real thing. This is the Real thing, Baba - You are the Real One. You have bestowed so much on me Unworthy me, my prayer shall be To do Your Will, Beloved - You are the Real One. To do Your Will and more and more To love You still until at last I cease to be, and merge within Your Love so still. This is the Real thing, this is the Real thing. This is the Real thing, Beloved - You are the Real One. You have bestowed so much on me Unworthy me, my prayer shall be To do Your Will, Beloved - Your are the Real One. To do Your Will and more and more To love You still until at last I cease to be, and merge within Your Love so still. This is the Real thing, this is the Real thing. This is the Real thing, Baba - You are the Real One. Your tender look has drawn my soul And set my heart aflame with love For You always, Beloved, You are the Real One. This is the Real thing, Beloved - This is the Real thing. This is the Real thing, Baba You are the Real One.
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We are unable to reproduce Cole Porter's immortal lyrics here due to copyright and licensing issues, but this recording of Meher Baba's favourite song is licensed. From Bhau Kalchuri's biography of Meher Baba, LORD MEHER, we read the following: "Baba's favorite song "Begin The Beguine" was played on a phonograph. Baba remarked the song had an eternal meaning. He beat the rhythm with his fingers on the arm of his chair." - LORD MEHER, Online Edition, p. 4385 Used with permission of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India.
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Let me remember you, dear Mehera, in your great beauty. Show me what purity looks like. Let me know from you that sweetness which owes nothing to sugar cane or roses. Let me learn from you the discipline which gives up everything without a second thought. Let me stand with you again, side by side, as if we were family. Let us sit together and weave brooches from His hair. Let us make paper flowers to garland His photograph and wash His clothes in water from the highest mountain. Let me never forget my good fortune in knowing Him more closely through knowing you. Let me not forget your laughter, or your tears. Dearest Mehera, let me learn from you the love He cannot resist, the love this world cannot imagine, the love even God cannot do without.
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No one can see you but with eyes divine, You’re my love, my lord, my life. No one can see you but with eyes divine, You’re my love, my lord, my life. Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! You always were, you always are, you always will be My love, my lord, my life My love, my lord, my life My love, my lord, my life You are the Ancient One, the Highest of the High My love, my lord, my life. Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai! No one can see you but with eyes divine, You’re my love, my lord, my life, No one can see you but with eyes divine, You’re my love, my lord, my life.
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Yes it must be love Yes it must be love One, then two Indivisible You, You, You Yes it must be love, now When will You be mine? When will my love become divine? Night and day Near and far Oh Beloved the Avatar When will You be mine? How can I be free? How can I be really me? I and me Me and my Oh let me live, Lord So I can die Yes it must be love, now I give You my day You show me Your lovely way How to be What to see Think of You, Lord and none of me Showing me my way Home
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Take me Take me towards the edge of your waterfall. Hold my heart. Teach me to float weightless towards a sea of no time. Dear Beloved, broken and weary, blinded by light, melted by a wave of soundless measure, taken by wind - place me with gentle care in this boat of New Life. There is no father mother sister brother, no male female boy girl, no this or that, only friend, companion, equal without measure.
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Show me Your eyes Show me Your eyes, I want to see. All that You see. All You hear and all You feel. I wanna be, with You With You, with You, with You. Finding myself Within Your eyes, died and I’m alive. Here is my heart, You are my home All I will ever know. I wanna be with You. With You, with You, with You. So show me Your eyes. Show me Your eyes I want to see. All that You see All You hear and all You feel. I wanna be, with You. With You, with You, with You. With You, with You with You.
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I MY EVERYTHING For fifty years I have been living with Meher Baba as my intimate companion; He has been my total source of meaning and inspiration; I have struggled to live my life according to His Wish; I have tried to remember Him constantly; His beauty His suffering His Love His humour; I have read just about everything written by Him, about Him, for Him, and I have been touched by what they reveal; I have held on tight to His Damaan when Life got difficult; I have organised many a group so that we may be together in His fragrant Presence; I have made many a Pilgrimage to His Tomb/Shrine at Meherabad, and to His Home in the West at Myrtle Beach; I have sat at the feet of His beloved Mandali, listening to tales of love and devotion; and I have travelled the world with my poems and songs, giving performances to entertain His Lovers; In short for fifty years MEHER BABA has been my Lord my Master my Beloved, my everything I cannot say that this has been easy; it has involved conscious effort every step of the way; not for liberation or realisation, but as an opportunity to live my life in ways that may please Him and make Him smile. II FALLING AND DISSOLVING on the 4th January, 2018 on my way to Meherabad I fell down some steps, cracked a rib or two, and had to return home. over the weeks that followed, as I was recovering from the fall, I gradually became aware that something profound was happening; I was losing my focus on Baba!! my resolve to keep Him at the heart of all that I think and say and do seemed to be ...dissolving... as if a file was being quietly deleted, by an unseen hand, while I was merely a detached witness, unable - or even unwilling - to prevent it happening. And so it happened... all my Baba ways, my constant efforts, the studying of His life and His work, the meetings and earnest discussions, the prayers, the pilgrimages, the songs... ...everything... Slipped silently into the past, and were gone. It felt as if Baba was saying:- your efforts have brought you this far, now it is time for change; it had become too habitual, almost religious, a hindrance to progress, so you had to fall; then with a smile He gently blew them all away. and I knew with a quiet certainty there could be no returning to how things were. III MY NOTHING now my everything had become my nothing, leaving me naked in the presence of the Lord, helpless and lost, crying out well what do I do now? how will I ever find my way home? and from out of the heart of my nothing came this silent response... all you have to do now is surrender surrender yourself wholeheartedly to My Will accept without question everything that IS And Trust Me Completely I will never ever let you down. IV MY NEW LIFE so here I am going about my usual daily business, and in spite of a stubborn ego which does not surrender gladly, and a questioning mind which does not easily accept or trust, I am finding myself unexpectedly at peace, content to remain under the veil, happy to follow wherever He may lead, facing whatever may come, as I live each eternal moment in the glow of His Grace... in the glory of His Love... and so I wait... listening... with an ear to the wind... God is speaking I do not wish to miss a whisper
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SEASONS Maria Radoje Seasons, how they come and go, Seasons, I have come to know The reason why you kept me near, The reason why I held you dear... Freedom, now the seeds are sown, Freedom, when they’re fully grown The sun will rise to greet the dawn, To shine upon a life transformed Praises, how they softly sing, Praises, to Meher the King, I long for you eternally, So just one glimpse, please grant to me Seasons, how they come and go, Seasons, I have come to know The reason why you kept me near, The reason why I held you dear...
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God is Love and love must love.
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OUT OF YOUR LOVE FOR US Marlais Pritchard What is this pact You’ve made with Him, sweet one, out of Your love for us, that lets You in again and again? To always come back this way, to quicken our hearts with joy and love and lift us back into You. Sweet one, I had thought He’d asked it of You, but now, now I’m not too sure, that it wasn’t You who pleaded with Him out of Your love for us... Beloved Meher Baba, Compassionate Father, not for nothing You have been named.
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THE PATH OF LOVE Biddu / Susie Biddu Baba You were always near us, You can always hear us on our Path of Love. Baba though we stumble and fall, help us always recall Your Loving Name. Even in our moments of deep despair, You’re still there Holding us with hands Divine, You’re there to help us every time, To have and hold, the truth that You told, Only with Your Grace, do we ever see Your Face. Baba though the journey is long You undo so much wrong On our Path of Love. Baba the world has many distractions, but the only attraction is being with You You had come here not to teach but to awaken each and every one, Though Your form has gone, the power of that love still lingers on. To live My words, unspoken yet heard, Baba we pray help us love You more each day. Baba You are always near us, You can always hear us on our Path of Love. Oh Baba though we stumble and fall Help us always recall Your loving name... Baba... Baba...
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THE 101 NAMES OF GOD Traditional Zoroastrian prayer 1. Yazad Worthy of Worship 2. Harvesp-tawan All-Powerful 3. Harvesp-Agah All-Knowing 4. Harvesp-Khoda Lord of All 5. Abadeh Without Beginning 6. Abi-Anjam Without End 7. Bun-e-stiha Root of Creation 8. Frakhtan-taih Endless Bliss 9. Jamaga Primal Cause 10. Prajatarah Exalted One 11. Tum-afik Purest of the Pure 12. Abaravand Detached from All 13. Paravandeh In touch with All 14. An-ayafeh Unattainable 15. Hama-Ayafeh Attainer of All 16. Adro Most Righteous 17. Gira Upholder of All 18. A-chem Beyond Reason 19. Chamana Sovereign Reason 20. Safana Bountiful One 21. Afza Ever Prolific 22. Nasha Reaching Equally to All 23. Parwara Nourisher 24. Ianaha Protector of the World 25. Ain-aenah Never Changing 26. An-aenah Formless 27. Kharoshid-tum Most Steadfast Among the Steadfast 28. Mino-tum Lord Invisible 29. Vasna All-Pervading 30. Harvastum All in All 31. Hu-sepas Worthy of our Profound Thanks 32. Har-Hamid All-Embracing Goodness 33. Har-naik faraih All-Embracing Holy light 34. Baish-tarana Remover of Affliction 35. Taronish Beyond Affliction 36. Anah-aoshaka Immortal 37. Farasaka Fulfiller of Holy Desires 38. Pajohdehad Creator of Holy Attributes 39. Khwafar Compassionate Judge 40. Avakhshiaea Merciful Giver 41. Abaraja Bountiful Giver 42. A-satoha Unconquerable 43. Rakhoha Freest of the Free 44. Varun Deliverer from Evil 45. A-farefah Never Deceiving 46. Be-fareftah Never Deceived 47. A-dui One Without a Second 48. Kam-rad Lord of Desire 49. Farman-kam Decreer of Sovereign Desire 50. Aekh Tan Soul Supreme 51. A-faremosh Never-forgetting 52. Hamarna Just Accountant 53. Sanaea Knowing All Things 54. A-tars Fearless 55. A-bish Devoid of Pain 56. A-frajdum Most Exalted One 57. Ham-chun Ever the Same 58. Mino-satihgar Invisible Creator of the Universe 59. A-minogar Creator of the Profoundly Spiritual 60. Mino-nahab Hidden Within the Spirit 61. Adar-bad-gar Transmuter of Fire into Air 62. Adar-nam-gar Transmuter of Fire into Dew 63. Bad-adar-gar Transmuter of Air into Fire 64. Bad-nam-gar Transmuter of Air into Dew 65. Bad-gail-garTransmuter of Air into Earth 66. Bad-gred-tum Supreme Transmuter of Air into Dust 67. Adar-kibritum Supreme Transmuter of Fire into Divine Sparks 68. Bad-gar-jae Spreading Air Everywhere 69. Ab-tum Creator of Life-giving Water 70. Gail-adar-gar Transmuter of Dust into Fire 71. Gail-vad-gar Transmuter of Dust into Air 72. Gail-nam-gar Transmuter of Dust into Water 73. Gar-gar Master Craftsman 74. Garo-gar Rewarder of Sincere Desires 75. Gar-a-gar Creator of all Humanity and its Actions 76. Gar-a-gar-gar Creator of all Humanity and Animal Life 77. A-gar-agar Creator of all the Four Elements 78. A-gar-a-gar-gar Creator of All the Planets and All Other Worlds 79. A-guman Never in Doubt 80. A-jaman Ageless 81. A-Khuan Eternally Awake 82. Amast Ever-Alert 83. Fashutana Ever-Protecting 84. Padmani Recorder of Man’s Actions 85. Firozgar Victorious 86. Khudawand Lord of the Universe 87. Ahuramazd Lord of Life and Wisdom 88. Abarin-kuhan-tawan Preserver of Creation 89. Abarin-nao-tawan Renewer of Creation 90. Vaspan Embracing All Creation 91. Vaaspar Giver of All Things 92. Khawar Infinitely Patient 93. Ahu Lord of Existence 94. Avakshidar Forgiver of Sins 95. Dadar Divine Creator 96. Raiyomand Rayed in Glory 97. Khorehmand Haloed in Light 98. Davar Lord of Justice 99. Kerfaigar Lord of Just Rewards 100. Bokhtar Liberator 101. Farsho-gar Awakener of Eternal Spring Ashem Vohu Vahishtem Ashti Ushta Ashti Ushta Ahemaye Yaa Dashai Vahishtai Ashem “Righteousness is the best good and it is happiness. Happiness is to him/her who is righteous for the sake of the best righteousness.”

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An offering of Love in Words and Music to mark the 50th Anniversary of Beloved Avatar Meher Baba dropping His physical form.

"BELOVED" was conceived when a group of Baba's lovers, some of whom had attended the 1969 Great Darshan, wanted to honour that momentous event, and also mark the midpoint of the Beloved's Manifestation period.

A collection of original songs and poetry (except for Cole Porter's "Begin The Beguine"), offered to Meher Baba and His lovers, as well as to any and all who sincerely love God, or who would do so, and anyone interested in Meher Baba.

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released June 11, 2020

1. Under One Banner - Billy Nichols

2. The Companions - Sarah McNeil / spoken by Paul Birchard

3. Beloved - Paul Birchard

4. Begin the Beguine - Malcolm Harrison (Cole Porter - Not Included For Copyright Reasons)

5. Letter to Mehera - Rosie Jackson

6. My Love, My Lord, My Life - Bo Holden

7. Yes, It Must Be Love - Lol Benbow

8. Take Me - David Lee

9. With You - Paul Smith

10. Fall - Michael Da Costa

11. Seasons - Maria Radoje / lead vocals by Wendy Halstead

12. Love Must Love - Simon & Carla Reece de Sousa

13. Out Of Your Love For Us - Marlais Pritchard

14. The Path of Love - Biddu / lyrics by Susie Biddu

15. Master's Peace - Richard Cork

16. The 101 Names of God - Prayer / spoken by Havovi Mahaluxmiwala

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