in each of the great Ways. Baba’s mission is to awaken man to that realization through the age-old message of love.
Baba also provides the ready example when one is faced by a puzzling decision. In essence, however, one does not know how Baba achieves the results he so clearly elicits from the human instrument. All that the individual senses is a powerful force sweeping through the snarls of life, simplifying and freeing the inner being in a manner that he instinctively trusts.
One of the great wonders of contact with Baba is acceptance. “He invites people to look at themselves, to accept their egotistic selves not as good or bad, clever or stupid, successful or unsuccessful, but as illusions of their true selves, and to cease to identify themselves with the illusion.”
The history of man’s search for his soul has produced few works dealing with the technique for the soul’s discovery. Meher Baba’s Discourses are a major contribution to that small body of literature. In this work, given to his close disciples in the period 1938-1943, he describes the means for incorporating daily life into one’s spiritual ongoing. He also outlines the structure of Creation, but only to clarify the relationship of the aspirant to the Master. In his classic later work, God Speaks,* Meher Baba describes in detail the vertical system of God, His will to know Himself consciously, and the purpose of Creation in that will-to-consciousness. The Discourses on the other hand are the practical guide for the aspirant as he slowly finds his way back to Oneness, after having developed consciousness through the deeps of evolution.
While the Discourses provide detailed descriptions of the Path and its disciplines, the reader will discover
* Dodd, Mead and Co., New York, N. Y. 1955.
