"No one requires an introduction to me..." - Avatar Meher Baba
Meher Mount
Your Friday photo is in honor the construction of the Darshan Courtyard at Meher Mount…
Thank you to Jon Meyer and Scott Lesniewski of the In His Love group for the quote from Avatar Meher Baba. It seemed fitting for caretaker Ray Johnston’s photo of the “daily inspectors” at the Darshan Courtyard worksite.
“No one requires an introduction to me, for no one is a stranger to me. However, I am a stranger to most, and those coming and remaining in my presence do not do so without introduction.
As a matter of fact, they have come with many introductions - for many times in previous lives have they been introduced to me and have gone away and forgotten me and met me again.
All these introductions are their introduction to me this time.”
Darshan is a Vedanta concept meaning “to receive the grace of seeing the Divine.”
Those who met Avatar Meher Baba had His darshan — seeing Him, paying homage to Him, and receiving His blessings. Even after dropping His physical form, followers of Meher Baba still take His darshan.
The Darshan Courtyard is in the space of the Baba Room where Meher Baba gave darshan to His followers in 1956. That building burned to the ground in the 1985 New Life Fire.
All of Meher Mount’s guests — now and in the future — have the opportunity to take Meher Baba’s darshan in this space. They need no formal introduction to the Avatar.
Source
Meher Baba, The Everything and the Nothing, Avatar Meher Baba Trust eBook, June 2011, pg. 38. (c)1989 Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, Ahmednagar, India. (c) Meher House Publications, Beacon Hill, Australia.