9902 Sulphur Mountain Road
Ojai, CA 93023-9375
Phone: 805-640-0000
Email: info@mehermount.org
Wednesday-Sunday: Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Monday & Tuesday: Closed
Buzz & Ginger Glasky
Sam Ervin, Preident
Ron Holsey, Vice President
Ursula Reinhart, Treasurer
Jim Whitson, Director
Richard Mannis, Director
Margaret Magnus, Secretary
Anecdotes, activities and stories about Meher Mount - past, present and future.
Every year since Meher Mount’s founding in 1946, volunteers are tasked with making sure that brush is cleared away from all buildings to help protect Meher Mount and the environment from the threat of wildfires.
In May 2015, there was an extra effort to make the meadow – the Prasad Orchard – below Avatar’s Point more accessible to mowing equipment.
Read MoreMeher Mount, this sacred place that Meher Baba visited on August 2, 1956, is vibrant with His love and presence, but it is a bit remote.
Yet, it seems to attract more guests that have never heard of Meher Baba than any other center. Some visitors want to know more about Him, but most just seem to fall in love with the "feeling" of His place.
Read MoreAnn Conlon met Avatar Meher Baba two times, both in India. In May 1961, Meher Baba cracked open the door of His very strict seclusion and invited anyone to come to Guruprasad in Pune, India, and see Him for only one hour. Ann jumped at this opportunity and flew from New York to India. Her one hour turned into five precious days of seeing Meher Baba.
Ann returned to Pune in November 1962 to attend the East-West Gathering.
In recalling both visits, Ann contrasts the moment she had to say goodbye to Meher Baba in 1961 and 1962, describing Meher Baba's reaction each time, and what it ultimately came to mean in her life.
Ann first describes her goodbye with Meher Baba in 1961:
Read MoreTo a devotee, Avatar Meher Baba gave these two spiritual secrets.
Read MoreThe following story covers several conversations between Avatar Meher Baba and Jean Adriel, where she is lamenting her despair to Him.
Jean, author of the book Avatar and a co-founder of Meher Mount, was among a group of Eastern and Western disciples with Meher Baba in Cannes, France, in the summer and fall of 1937.
Read More“Why do we suffer? Meher Baba replied: “To take birth means to suffer. When suffering leads to real eternal happiness, we should not attach importance to this suffering. It is to eliminate suffering that suffering has to come.
“This suffering is unnecessary and self-inflicted; ninety-nine percent of the world's suffering is self-inflicted; and then people ask, ‘Why must we suffer?’ Great suffering means great liberation."
Read MoreAbout spirituality, Avatar Meher Baba said, spirituality does not "necessarily imply the renunciation of worldly activities. "Mere external renunciation - asceticism - does not lead to spirituality."
Read MoreAt Guruprasad, Meher Baba used to enjoy playing a card game called La Risque, an occasion of much merriment. He liked a lively and amusing atmosphere around Him, so this was the perfect pastime.
It eased the burden of Meher Baba's universal work and allowed the players' minds to focus on Him in a natural manner.
Read MoreBunty Kelley Bernstein was one of the dancers trained by ballet professional and instructor Margaret Craske, a close disciple (mandali) of Avatar Meher Baba. In the Winter 2014 issue of Glow International: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba, Bunty shared her own stories of being with Meher Baba.
The following excerpt is about her time in 1956 when Meher Baba visited Meher Mount during His three-day trip to Southern California. He stayed at at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and went to Meher Mount on August 2, 1956.
Read MoreIn 1949, Avatar Meher Baba asked His mandali (close disciples) in Meherazad, Ahmednagar and Meherabad, India, as well as His close lovers and followers everywhere in the world to keep silence for the entire month of July. Meher Baba had been silent since July 10, 1925.
One of Meher Baba’s followers in the West, Marguerite Poley wrote about observing that month of silence at Meher Mount. The following is her account reprinted with permission from “Meher Mount Memories: The Month of Silence, July 1949,” by Marguerite Poley, Love Street Lamp Post, January 2006 (1st Quarter 2006), pp. 43-44. ©Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California.
Read MoreThe Unstruck Music of Meher Baba has quotes about and by Avatar Meher Baba - one for every day of the year. It was compiled by Maude Kennedy and was a favorite of Meher Mount co-founder and lifetime caretaker, Agnes Baron (1907-1994.)
Read MoreIn honor of "Get Caught Reading" month in May 2015, Meher Mount asked for reading recommendations related to Avatar Meher Baba. Margaret Magnus chose The Real Treasure: Life of A Resident with Avatar Meher Baba’s Mandali, by Rustom B. Falahati. She selected the passage on "Divine Will and Free Will" as an example of a "treasure" contained in the series.
Read MoreThe following is excerpted with permission from “Musings on the Young Adult Sahavas,” by Ryan Brown, Love Steet Lamp Post, October-January, 2001 (1st Quarter 2001), pp.4-5. ©Avatar Meher Baba Center of Southern California.
The Young Adult Sahavas at Meher Mount from June 23-27, 2000, was a time of fellowship, service, and remembrance of Avatar Meher Baba.
Read MoreThe first Young Adult Sahavas (for ages 18-35) was held August 7-9, 1998 at Meher Mount.
Organizers pulled the Sahavas together in three weeks after close-Meher-Baba-disciple Bhau Kalchuri told them, “Enough talk, talk, talk – it is time to do, do, do!”
Read MoreIn honor of "Get Caught Reading" month in May 2015, Meher Mount asked for reading recommendations related to Avatar Meher Baba. Wayne Myers chose The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba.
Although long out-of-print, every issue of the The Awakener Magazine: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba is available online in its original format.
Published from 1953 to 1986, The Awakener is a treasure source of Meher Baba’s direct messages and aspects of His work during the last two decades of His physical lifetime.
Read MorePhotos from the early days of Meher Mount are few and precious. This is the story of the 2014 discovery of photos from November 1956, just months after Meher Baba's August 2, 1956 visit.
Read MoreJust as the October 2014 board meeting at Meher Mount was winding up, contributing writer for The Ojai Valley Visitors Guide Perry Van Houten arrived to find out more about Baba’s Tree for an article he was writing. Board President Sam Ervin took him on a tour and provided background information along with a number of photos.
What follows is the section about Baba’s Tree from the article “Ojai’s Trees” by Perry Van Houten published in the Winter 2014 edition of the The Ojai Valley Visitors Guide and used with permission from the publisher, Ojai Valley News.
Read MoreSeveral times before Avatar Meher Baba dropped His body on January 31, 1969, He asked his close disciples, mandali, to have "Begin the Beguine" played when He did leave His physical form.
Read MoreOn January 31, 1969, Avatar Meher Baba dropped His physical body. His close disciple and night watchman at the time, Bhau Kalchuri, shared the following.
Read MoreAgnes Baron (1907-1994) is remembered because of her dedication to Avatar Meher Baba, for her role as a founder and lifetime caretaker of Meher Mount, for her fiery nature and no-holds barred approach to life, for her selfless service, and for the many lives she touched.
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