Over Population

A RAY OF LIGHT ON THE
PRESENT PANICKY PROBLEM
OF OVER-POPULATION

Meher Baba

There are 18,000 worlds in Creation which are inhabited,
some by human beings with 100% intelligence, others with
lesser and varying degrees of it. But the value of our Earth,
where mind and heart balance, in inestimable. For it is here,
and here alone that one can go through the process of
Involution and experience the subtle and mental spheres;
here alone that God-realization can be attained. Thus it is
that souls (jiv-atmas) from other inhabited worlds finally
take birth on this earth for their emancipation, more so
during the Avataric advent when the highest spiritual benefit
is gained and most so when the Avataric manifestation is
greatest. Hence the present influx of population on Earth is
but the natural outcome of the rush of "migration" from other
worlds, and the ones migrating from the worlds of highest
intelligence are responsible for carrying science to the peak
it has reached today.

Baba said, “All this has been recurring since timeless ages,
in a never ending tide and ebb. Even this Earth expends itself
in time and another such earth takes its place. Science will
soon come to know a little of what I have said.

"I will break my Silence and manifest when on the one hand
science reaches its highest level and on the other hand
anti-God elements rise to their peak. Accordingly, my
spiritual Manifestation will also be of the highest. When I
break my Silence the world will be shaken into realization of
Who I Am. When I break my Silence the impact will jolt the
world out of its spiritual lethargy, and will push open the
hearts of all who love Me and are connected with Me.
What will happen when I break my Silence, is what has
never happened before."

Eternal Now

Meher Baba

Life is not meant to be rich in spiritual significance at some distant date, but it can be so at every moment if the mind is disburdened of illusions. Only through a clear and tranquil mind is the true nature of spiritual infinity grasped — not as something that is yet to be but that already has been, is, and ever will be eternal Self-fulfillment. When every moment is rich with eternal significance, there is neither the lingering clinging to the dead past nor a longing expectation for the future but an integral living in the eternal Now. Only through such living can the spiritual infinity of the Truth be realized in life.

It is not right to deprive the present of all importance by subordinating it to an end in the future. For this means the imaginary accumulation of all importance in the imagined future rather than the perception and realization of the true importance of everything that exists in the eternal Now. There cannot be an ebb and flow in eternity, no meaningless intervals between intermittent harvests, but a fullness of being that cannot suffer impoverishment for a single instant. When life seems to be idle or empty, it is not due to any curtailment of the infinity of the Truth but to one's own lack of capacity to enter into its full possession....

Spiritual life is not a matter of quantity but of inherent quality of living. Spiritual infinity includes in its scope all phases of life. It comprises acts that are great as well as acts that are small. Being greater than the greatest, spiritual infinity is also smaller than the smallest; and it can equally express itself through happenings irrespective of whether they are outwardly small or great. Thus a smile or a look stands on the same level as offering one's life for a cause, when the smile or the look springs from Truth-consciousness.

There are no gradations in spiritual importance when all life is lived in the shadow of Eternity. If life were to consist only of big things and if all the little things where to be omitted from its scope, it would not only be finite but would be extremely poor. The infinite Truth, which is latent in everything, can reveal itself only when life is seen and accepted in its totality.

DISCOURSES, pp. 118-119

Redeemed fronm Bondage

Listen Humanity

Meher Baba

Man can be redeemed from all types of bondage-physical, mental, spiritual, social, political and moral, sooner or later. But the redemption of man from the self-imposed shackles of intellectual self sufficiency, uncritically accepted ideals and dry religious heritage is a task which is well-nigh superhuman. Here is the real task of the aspirant: to pierce through his own layers of self-imposed self-sufficiency and insensitivity's so that he may expose a layer of vital awareness to the world about him,
which would teach him, if it could

The Cosmos is Within You

Meher Baba

It does not require a large eye to see a large mountain. Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Spirituality Covers the Whole of Life

Meher Baba
Discourses

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any “ism.” When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile. All creeds and cults have a tendency to emphasise some fragmentary aspect of life, but true spirituality is totalitarian in its outlook. The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.

The First Step

MEHER BABA

Remember that the first step in spirituality is not to speak ill of others. All human beings have weaknesses and faults. Yet they are all God in their being. Until they become Realized, they have their imperfections. Therefore, before trying to find faults in others and speaking ill of them, try to find your own weaknesses and correct those.

FREEING OF KARMIC ENTANGLEMENTS

Meher Baba

The spinning of the yarn of Karmic debts and dues would be
endless if there had been no provision for getting out of the
Karmic entanglements through the help of the Master. He can
not only initiate the aspirant into the supreme art of unbinding
Karma, but can become directly instrumental in freeing him
from his Karmic entanglements. *The Master has attained
unity with God, Whose cosmic and universal life includes all
persons. Being one with all life, he can become, in his
representative capacity for the sake of the aspirant, the
medium for the clearing up of all debts and dues which have
come into existence through the aspirant's dealings with
countless persons contacted in his incarnations.* If a person
must get bound to someone, it is best for him to get bound to
God or the Master, because this tie ultimately facilitates
emancipation from all other Karmic ties.

When the good Karma of past lives has secured for the
aspirant the benefit of having a Master, the best thing that he
can do is to surrender himself to the Master and to serve him.
Through surrenderance the aspirant throws the burden of his
Karma on the Master who has to think out ways and means
of freeing him from it. Through serving the Master he wins an
opportunity to get clear of his Karmic entanglements. The
relation between the Master and the disciple is often carried
on from one life to another for several reincarnations. Those
who have been connected with the Master in past lives are
drawn to him by an unconscious magnetism, not knowing why
they are thus drawn. There is usually a long history to the
apparently unaccountable devotion which the disciple feels for
his Master. The disciple is often beginning where he had left
off in the last incarnation.

DISCOURSES, Vol. III, pp. 93-94