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Why have you not read God's book yet?

>> No.21005619

God Speaks is Meher Baba's major book and it is famously difficult. But not only is it Baba's major book, it is his only book. All other books by Meher Baba, such as the Discourses and Listen Humanity, are not written as books, as God Speaks is, but are collections of essays and messages.

>> No.21005626

in God Speaks Meher Baba goes deeper into the subject of metaphysics than other Indian spiritual masters. In his book Mastery of Consciousness, Allan Y. Cohen, Ph.D. writes that Meher Baba's "explanations of the creation, purpose, and evolution of the universe may be the most explicit ever written."

In a review of God Speaks, oriental scholar Walter Evans-Wentz, the original English translator of The Tibetan book of the dead, wrote: "No other Teacher in our own time or in any known past time has so minutely analyzed consciousness as Meher Baba has in God Speaks."

>> No.21005631

God Speaks takes a strictly nondualist approach in explaining the universe and its purpose, carefully clarifying and syncretising terms as it takes the reader through the spiritual journey of the atma (soul) through its imagined evolution, reincarnation, and involution, to its goal, its origin, of Paramatma (Over-soul). The journey winds up being one from God-unconscious ("Beyond Beyond State of God") to God-conscious ("Beyond State of God"). Cohen summarizes, "In elaborate detail he explains the universe is an arena where infinite existence, identifying with the apparently limited soul, becomes more and more conscious of its oneness with itself as the Over-Soul."

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>> No.21005910

>>21005573
The Bible is boring and doesn’t make sense

>> No.21005956

>>21005910
Uh...but this thread is not about the Bible little anon.

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>> No.21007344

>>21005573
Is Meher a Hindu or Muslim or Judaist?

>> No.21007351

>>21007344
None. he is God explaining the truth.

>> No.21007362

>>21007351
in his words... is he the only God? is he the first God? what's his deal? can we all be God?

>> No.21007372

>>21007362
We are all God at different stages of its development.

>> No.21007383

>>21007372
what does that make him? the final stage of godness on earth?

>> No.21007449

>>21007383
A God realized man

>> No.21007887

>>21007344
In certain locales throughout India and Central Asia, Islam and Hinduism have formed very close ties, to the point of saints arising who are revered by both Muslims and Hindus, and apparently seemed to work in both religions, drawing followers from both and using terminology and ideas from both, and continue to have their graves visited after death by followers of both religions. Even more specifically, this is often associated with Sufism, the fascinating phenomenon within Islam which spreads sometimes beyond its cultural borders and almost turns into its own unique entity.

In his young travels and spiritual quest, Baba learned from both Muslim Sufi saints and from Hindu gurus, and in the book uses both Sufic and Vedantic terminology and ideas.