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Ordinary Life
– Juniper Downs
Baba Loved Us Too
– Wendy Connor
Feeling His Love
– Steve Klein
He is both Father and Mother
– Juniper Downs
A Leap of Faith
– Wendy Connor
Becoming His
– Steve Klein
Don't Worry, Be Happy
– Juniper Downs
A Life Worth Living
– Wendy Connor
Love The One You're With
– Steve Klein
What a Mighty Beloved our Beloved is
– Wendy Connor
To thine own self be true?
– Steve Klein
The Sweets of His Love
– Wendy Connor
Sickness and Health
– Juniper Downs
Giving Advice
– Steve Klein
"Garlic-Faced"
– Wendy Connor
To Love and Be Loved
– Juniper Downs
Talking About The Truth
– Steve Klein
The Script was Written Long Ago
– Wendy Connor
Excuse Me, Which Way to God?
– Steve Klein
Letting Go
– Juniper Downs
The Mosquitoes are Bad Today
– Wendy Connor
What If A Teaching Moment Never Comes?
– Steve Klein
Beads On One String
– Juniper Downs
Youth Sahavas '07
– Wendy Connor
Stop, You're Both Right!
– Steve Klein
God, Please Give me a Job
– Juniper Downs
"It Just Passes More Quickly"
– Wendy Connor
Multiple Meher Babas
– Steve Klein
The Treasure Within
– Wendy Connor
Winking Back
– Juniper Downs
Holding On, But Losing One's Grip
– Steve Klein
1969
– Ann Conlon
Obedience
– Ann Conlon
Meher Center – The Way It Was
– Ann Conlon
Armageddon, Anyone?
– Ann Conlon
What Does Baba Want Me to Do?
– Ann Conlon
Baba's 'Things'
– Ann Conlon
The Way It Was – Meherabad
– Ann Conlon
What Does THAT Mean?
– Ann Conlon
Doing "Baba Work"
– Ann Conlon
Broken Heads
– Ann Conlon
On Being Ill
– Ann Conlon
Enid
– Ann Conlon
To Each His Own
– Ann Conlon
Meherjee
– Ann Conlon
Youth Sahavas
– Ann Conlon
Kitty
– Ann Conlon
The Lonely Path
– Ann Conlon
Isn't He Enough?
– Ann Conlon
Goher
– Ann Conlon
He Said What?
– Ann Conlon
Seeking Suffering
– Ann Conlon
Taking a Dare
– Ann Conlon
Dreams
– Ann Conlon
Amartithi
– Ann Conlon
Margaret
– Ann Conlon
"The Disciple"
– Ann Conlon
I Wonder ...
– Ann Conlon
Backbiting, etc.
– Ann Conlon
Rites, Rituals and Ceremonies
– Ann Conlon
Hearing His Name
– Ann Conlon
"Baba's Group"
– Ann Conlon
His Promise
– Ann Conlon
Then and Now
– Ann Conlon
Middlemen Revisited
– Ann Conlon
Padri
– Ann Conlon
Gateway Days
– Ann Conlon
The New Life
– Ann Conlon
Books, Books and More Books
– Ann Conlon
His "Last Warning"
– Ann Conlon
Elizabeth Patterson
– Ann Conlon
Detachment
– Ann Conlon
Is That A Religion Coming?
– Ann Conlon
Manifestation: Did He Or Didn't He?
– Ann Conlon
A Country of Our Own?
– Ann Conlon
Remembering Mohammed
– Ann Conlon
Advice (Sort-Of) for Newcomers
– Ann Conlon
You're a Baba Lover If...
– Ann Conlon
Real Happiness
– Ann Conlon
Baba Lover, Baba Follower or Both?
– Ann Conlon
Meherazad – The Way It Was
– Ann Conlon
The Strongest Memories
– Ann Conlon
The New Life
The New Life quote is one of Meher Baba's most beautiful messages, and it holds out such extraordinary hope to everyone:
"But this New Life is endless, and even after my physical death will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust, and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor, nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving, who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward, who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies. This New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one to live it."
Do you think any of us are living it now? I doubt it. It's a nice thought but, aside from the mandali, I don't think any of us even come close. Believing it to be so is on a par, I think, with believing we're the New Humanity. The generations that will earn that name, I believe, are still to come.
As for the New Life, the criteria is certainly clear enough. If you sit down and look carefully at them, I think you'll see either you or someone you know may be meeting one or even several of those criteria. But all of them? Come on! And I don't think a partial New Life is what Meher Baba had in mind. It's all or nothing.
There's another theory out there that we all start living the New Life at the same time. That sort of thing hardly ever happens with Baba. I like my own theory, based on the last sentence of the message: "The New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one left to live it." That conjures up in my imagination a sort of bubble which is always there, hovering, waiting. And when we're ready, as individuals, we simply step into it.