Meher Baba says, "Life often. presents enigmas which cannot be unravelled by ordinary persons; It

seems to them to be full of questions, which are

unanswerable. Unrestrained, chaos appears to be the law of the world; and there appears to be no Justice or significance in the march of its events. Even those who believe in God get puzzled and waver in their faith."

It is the ignorance of the Law of Truth that governs the life of all men and creatures in existence, which is the cause of miseries mankind experiences. This Law or the essence of Truth was and is .constantly unfolded to humanity in one form or another, directly or indirectly by the Perfect Masters through the ages and by the Avatar; of the age in every cycle of time

Meher Baba began his Universal Message (1958) thus:

"I have come not to teach but to awaken. Understand therefore that I lay down no precepts. Through eternity I have laid down principles and precepts, but mankind has ignored them . Man's inability to live God's words makes the avatar's teaching a mockery. Instead of practising the compassion he taught, man has waged crusades in his name. Instead of living the humility, purity and. truth of his

words, man has given way to hatred, greed and violence. Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present avataric form I observe silence. You have asked for and been given enough words-it is now time to live ,them."

'It is thus dear that by understanding the truth of God's words and living them in our moment to moment life that man may find peace on earth and happi­ness in life. And it seems that self-giving love for God and self-effacing service for the Cause of Truth alone can open up the avenues of understanding God's truth which unfolds ,life in its wholeness.

Meher Baba says, "The whole universe with all its laws is subject to the supreme Law of truth. It is ever being administered impersonally as well as through the Spiritual Hierarchy. To the superficial observer; it may seem that there is no reign of Truth in the

universe. The truth does reign and reigns unceasingly and unfailingly.

"This vast universe, with all the multitudinous occurrences within It, is subject to a self-justifying law­

the Law of Truth. Sometimes it does appear as if sincere toil is lost or the virtuous are condemned to suffering and the vicious are enthroned with power or endowed with success. But all this is either a fractional

view of the realities or an illusion in the garb of judgment.

"To one, who can take a complete and unclouded view of occurrences, the inexorable reign of Truth in all happenings, great or small, individual or

collective, is a dear and unchallengeable fact. Reign of Truth may be described indifferent ways as the Law of God or the Law of Justice or the Law of Karma. lit is the Law of Cause and effect or the Law of

Divine Rove, according to the angle of vision or the limiting perspective, given by the particular stand-point of the intellect. But the important fact is that what­ever may be the manner in which the Law of Truth is apprehended by the intellect it unchallengeably exists. It is a supreme and self-justifying power, that unfailingly and irresistibly reigns in the universe and it has no exceptions. All seers have announced the reign of this Law of Truth. It operates both impersonally and through the conscious working ,of 1!he Divine Hierarchy of Masters and their Agents. "

. Meher Baba revealed tkat there is in each age a Hierarchy consisting of 7000 spiritual beings-either advanced or perfect--headed by 5 Perfect Masters, one of whom acting as an overall Chief controlling in the

affairs ,of all the worlds, all men and creatures in existence. Babajan of iPoona,Narayan Maharaj of

Kedgaon,Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur, Upasani Maharaj of Sakori and Sai Baba of Shiridi, Baba told us, were the Five Perfect Masters who heralded this avatarie age and Sai,baba, who passed away, in 1918 was the Chief of the Hierarchy.

It was Sai Baba who made Upasani Maharaj perfect and handed over his charge. It was Upasani Maharaj who gave Meherwan S. Irani (Meher Baba) knowledge of his infinite state and integrated his God consciousness with the consciousness of the gross world preparing him thus for his role as the Avatar of the Age. And Meher Baba began his avataric work in the year 1922, becoming the chargeman of all the five Perfect Masters, in Poona living in a hut built for him by Sadashiv Govind Shelke Patil on the Fergusson College Road, near the popular temple of Chatrusingi.

Meher Baba further explained, "Though dwelling in the universal mind with its seat as the universal body, the Truth-realised Masters do not neglect the co-ordinative and organised working required for the execution of the Divine Plan. Their plans for the world are made far in advance of the times, sometimes centuries before the time when they are intended to be executed. They dwell in eternity; and they have in their view, the past, the present and future. They were the custodians of God's process of self-fulfillment working itself out through the march of the variegated incidents in time.

" The co-operative and organized working of the Perfect Masters expresses itself through the functioning of the Spiritual Hierarchy. The Masters as one with the supreme God-Head, . convey the Divine will and Impulse to the Advanced Souls or Maha-yogis or Pirs of the mental world. The Advanced Souls catch

the impulse originating in the shoreless ocean of Truth

and pass it on from the mental world to those who control the subtle world. In the gross world, it may manifest itself through many natural upheavals, i. e., earthquakes and volcanic erruptions, floods, changes in the structure of the earth and 'of the ocean-bed. It may also manifest itself through the upheavals in the life of the mankind (e. g., rise and downfall of the empires, wars, epidemics, births, deaths, catastrophies and other major episodes in the history of humanity.)

" The causes of what becomes patently manifest

in the gross world are to be found in the commotion' in the subtle world. And the causes of the commotion in the subtle world are to be found in the directives

that obtain from the mental world. And the origin of the directives of the mental world is seen as being

none other than the Will of God, as released by the Masters who are consciously one with God. Thus,

the Masters are indirectly in charge of the execution of

the Divine Plan. They make use of the infinite power and understanding to further the plan in all the three worlds. All their working gets particularly accelerated and co-ordinated during the Avataric Periods, when the Avatar as the inspiring force of the Divine Hierarchy, assumes the principal directive role in the divine task Qf giving spiritual push to humanity."

One should have a clear concept of what is being called God and an unclouded perception of one's

relation with him. God who is infinite power, know­ledge and bliss and is all-pervading resides in every heart. Means what? It means that everyone is indivisibly and unceasingly one with God. Every man or woman is an embodied triune attributes of God. The human body is an enformed infinite-bliss-aspect of what one may call God, energized and activated by his infinite-power-aspect and is enformed by the infinite-knowledge-aspect. Most men are not aware of this unceasing and ever living relation of man with God. Hence all conflicts and confusion in his mind and chaos and turmoil in society.

The sound sleep state everyone experiences every day illustrates the indivisible unity of man with God. Exhausted by a days labour, when one retires to sleep,

what one is trying to do? One literally unites with God .in his original, infinite and eternal state though unconsciously. All ideas of separative existence ceases. The ego-centred individuality is immersed into the indivisible infinitude of God's unfathomable existence. It is this union with the infinite-bliss-aspect of God, though unconsciously, that refreshes man every

morning and infuses him with renewed vigour and

vitality to continue his journey of life. If one can refresh and revitalize oneself by being united with God unconsciously. can we not derive the same benifit through constant conscious communion with God. It is a question worth pondering on.

We are all so to say drops in the ocean of God's

infinite, indivisible existence. Just as each drop in the ocean is one with the ocean and one with every other drop in the ocean and is ocean itself, every man is not

only one with what we all call God at all times, but is also one with every other man or woman and is God.

We are all one in God's Love. The highest Law of life is love. This is the Law of God's Truth.

" Meher Baba says, "God's Truth cannot be ignored; and thus, 'by mankind's ignorance and weakness, a tremendous adverse reaction is produced­and the world finds itself in a cauldron of suffering

through wars, hate, conflicting ideologies, and Nature's: rebellion in the form of floods, famines, earthquakes

and other disasters. Ultimately, when the apex is reached, God manifests anew in human form to guide mankind in the destruction of its self-created evil, that it may be re-established in the Divine Truth.

"The time has come for the pre-ordained destru­ction of multiple separateness which keeps man from

experiencing the feeling of unity and brotherhood.

This destruction which will take place very soon, will  cause three-fourths of the world to be destroyed. The remaining one-fourth will be brought together to live a life of concord and mutual understanding, thus.

establishing a feeling of oneness in all fellow-beings leading ,them towards lasting happiness.

" All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame. What has to happen has happened; what has to happen will happen. There:

was and is no way out except through my coming in your midst. 1 had to come, and I have come. I AM THE ANCIENT ,ONE.

"I have come to sow the seed of love in your .hearts so that in spite of aU superficial diversity which

your life in illusion must experience and endure, the feeling of oneness, through love, is brought about amongst all the nations, creeds, sects and castes of the world.

"I am not limited by this form. I use it like .a garment to make myself visible to you; and I communicate with you. Don't try to understand me. My ,depth is unfathomable. .Just love me. I AM THE ETERNAL .BELOVED WHO RESIDES IN EVERY HEART AND WHO LOVES YOU MORE THAN YOU CAN EVER LOVE YOURSELF.

" I have come to remind all people that they should live on earth as the children of the one Father

until my Grace awakens them to the realization that they are all one without a second, and that all division and conflict and hatred are but a shadow play

of their own ignorance.                    

        God Who infinite love has enformed as Man

and lived amongst us as one of us in the person of Meher Baba. through his noble life of self-giving love for all, he has demonstrated how man could love

God by loving his fellow beings, because God resides in every heart. Through his self-withering service to

mankind he demonstrated that true service is that true  service where there is no thought of self. His only teaching (if at all he can be called a teacher) was,

'I AM THE ANCIENT ONE WHO RESIDES IN EVERY HEART." His only message was, "LOVE. ME IN EVERY ONE AND SERVE ME IN EACH OTHER,"

May Meher Baba, God, the Absolute, the Merciful Father of all, the In dweller of every heart, whom those who have realized' know as their own Self and

believer believe to All-pervading, All-'knowing, All-powerful, All-loving and All-merciful, whom the Muslims call Allah, whom the Zoroastrians call Ahurmazd,

whom the Hindus call Ishwar Paramatman and

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whom many others can by many other names, may

he whose union the lovers seek in self-annihilation,

whom the seers see as the only Reality, may this. supreme Conscious Being, this Conscious Soul of souls, who eternally manifests as Avatar and Perfect Master, may he through his all merci£ul act bestow on us his grace, and bless us  all  with his infinite love so that we

may be inspired to imbibe  the rnessages of Love and

truth  he unfolded to our understanding and to endeavour every moment to make our lives living

messages of his love and truth, thus enriching this earth and, ennobling life on this earth.