Meher Baba Quotes
If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
Baba, Meher. Listen, Humanity. Narrated and edited by D. E. Stevens, Dodd, Mead, 1967, p. 177.
She even thought that Gandhi was sometimes too violent verbally. There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who claimed to be his era's Avatar, or God in human form. A major spiritual figure of the 20th century, he was the central figure around the "Meher Baba Movement", and estimates of his following range from the hundreds of thousands to the millions. His followers were concentrated in India, but with a significant number in the United States, Europe and Australia.
