"In different ways, I am taking out the dirty water from everyone." - Avatar Meher Baba
Meher Mount
To rejoice in finding a source of clean, drinkable water, Meher Mount is celebrating water in all its meaning and uses. One incident that happened in Meher Baba’s life feels reminiscent of the swimming pool-water reservoir situation at Meher Mount (before the new well) and the strong sulfur smell from the untreated water.
The original swimming pool on the property acted as a reservoir for the water pumped up from the old Canyon Well. Periodically, the pool needed to be drained, cleaned, and then filled with clean water again.
“What did you have to do to fill the Pool?”
It was 1944, and Meher Baba and some of His disciples traveled to Aurangabad, India. The women stayed in the Prem Basera bungalow.
There was a small tank-like pond in the Prem Basera compound, but no pipeline to fill it.
MARGARET CRASKE and Avatar Meher Baba in 1931 in East Challacombe, Devonshire, UK. (Meher Nazar Publications. Used with permission.)
Men were hired to carry water from a distant well to fill the tank. They would bring it in buffalo skins, by bullock cart and motor trolley.
Margaret Craske suggested that the women be allowed to swim in the tank, and for some days they did.
There was no filter, of course, and after a few days the water smelled. So, Meher Baba asked Margaret Craske to see that the water was changed.
It was summertime, and Margaret had to supervise the draining of the pool and its refilling in the hot sun.
It was tiring work, and, at times, she thought to herself what a bother.
Later, Baba asked her, “What did you have to do to fill the pool?”
AVATAR MEHER BABA in 1940 using the alphabet board. (Meher Nazar Publications. Used with permission.)
Margaret explained that she first took the dirty water out, and then refilled the pool with fresh water.
Meher Baba spelled out, “Within you is dirty water too, and I have also to take it out, to make room for the fresh water of my love. Thus, in different ways, I am taking out the dirty water from everyone. I am training you, so that you may one day dive deep into my Ocean and obtain the treasure.”
Source
Bhau Kalchuri, Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba, Online Edition, pg. 2400, accessed December 15, 2022. (c)Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust. Used with permission.
Thank you to Candy Bloeme for suggesting this story for “The Divine Gift of Water” film and the event celebrating the new well and finding drinkable water at Meher Mount.