[Tavern-Talk] Trust Talk - Early Editions of _Discourses_ Available on "Online Library"

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In January 2007, the Trust inaugurated its "Online Library," which at 
that time consisted of twelve books available in pdf format on the 
Trust's web site.

We're happy to be able to announce several significant new additions to 
the library "collection" that will be of special interest to students of 
the _Discourses_. Published by Adi K. Irani and the "Publication 
Committee" (as it was called) between 1939 and 1943, the "Five-volume 
set" represented the first complete compilation of Meher Baba's 
sixty-nine essays. Written up and edited mostly by C. D. Deshmukh, the 
discourses in this their original form have been out of print and 
unavailable for most of the last half-century.

A decade after its first publication, Charles Purdom, a close Western 
follower of Meher Baba, undertook the first major re-edit of the 
five-volume set; and the fruit of his labor was published in 1955 in 
London under the title _God to Man and Man to God_.

Pdf files of both of these early editions of the _Discourses_, along 
with the pdf file of the seventh edition (published in 1987 and still in 
print), can be found at: 
http://www.ambppct.org/meherbaba/Discourses.php. On this page, you will 
also find supplementary material providing an overview and concise 
histories of the various editions of the _Discourses_.

In the near future we plan to add the original (1967) sixth edition of 
the _Discourses_ to the Online Library collection. We hope that access 
to these early editions will be of use to Baba lovers who would like to 
read Baba's discourses in their earlier forms or study the development 
of the text of this masterpiece of practical spirituality.