[Tavern-Talk] HEART TALK - Baba's letters to Delia DeLeon and to her sister Minta: Fourth Letter

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HEART TALK - Baba's letters to Delia DeLeon and to her sister Minta: 
Fourth Letter

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Letter from Mount Abu 

July 25 1935

My darling Leyla,

I have all your loving letters giving news of yourself and also of 
things and affairs at your end - re your going to Spain and about 
Minta and other dear ones coming into your contact. 

You say you are all scattered about in different places, and feel 
concerned. Why, dearest? Anything that keeps one busy anywhere must be 
welcome. My mandali are scattered here too, and I am Myself away and 
aloof from all, on these mountains. And there is a purpose, dearest, 
behind everything, especially behind all I do, for My circle, mandali 
and others in general. It may make one look scared, at times, but 
later on when the outcome is seen or experienced and the object behind 
all this is revealed, all do understand. But all must wait for that. 
You will know, one day, everything. Meanwhile, just follow your right 
impulse wherein you will always be guided and helped by your beloved 
who looks after you as you can scarcely imagine! So, darling, go to 
Spain, spend your time in good work, keep cheerful all the while, and 
return when you feel your work there is finished, or before if you are 
needed elsewhere and informed. In short, dearest, learn to accept 
things as they come, quietly, without worrying and much of the anxiety 
that is unnecessary will disappear, and things will look easier than 
at first.

Yes, I might come by the end of the year if I see the necessity, and 
after finishing the picture, retire there for the rest of the period. 
For the present, I must be in seclusion and work. And if letters take 
longer than usual, it will be due to the importance of the work in 
hand, and should not be taken for anything else. You should never 
think that I love you the less for that, and should go on writing 
yourself, as you have been doing up till now, giving news about 
yourself and the dear ones of the group. 

And you are reading the life of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda and you 
think you like them better than Baba. But whether you like one or the 
other, it is all Baba. So even if you like Ramakrishna better, it 
makes no difference, for in Ramakrishna, too, I was; rather, I was he. 
But I know that Leyla, anyway, won't falter in her love. At least My 
Leyla won't.

And why think of grey hair and getting old and haggard? Does Love grow 
less for look and age? Why, it grows all the more ripe, intense, and 
deeper with age and experience. So, dearest, why worry about looks? 
Whatever you are - withered, shattered, weather-beaten, wishy-washy, 
pulled-down, or whatever you look, frail, fragile, flimsy, rickety, 
drooping, tottering and so on and so on - you will ever be the same 
"loving and lovely" Leyla in the eyes of your beloved, who looks to no 
outward form or appearance but to the inner being, the beauty of the 
heart, the depth of the soul. And besides, I know that whenever I 
come, you dearest look lovelier, fresher, livelier than ever, in the 
ecstasy of seeing and being with your beloved, whose dearest darling 
you are. Convey My love as ever, to dear Kim, to your dear mother, and 
also to all the dear ones of the group, and to others who need and 
seek, in Spain.

All my love

M.S. Irani [signed]
 

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Jai Beloved Baba!

Archives Team

Avatar Meher Baba P.P.C. Trust

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Heart Talk, Letter 244, 10 July 2008
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