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

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

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Panchgani
May 29, 1938

Dearest Leyla,

Your letter, received yesterday, in answer to My last, made Me so happy. It struck a much happier note 
than the previous one.

You have grown so much in your understanding and realize that all I do and all I make each of you 
suffer is only to draw you closer in love to Me - your Beloved. Could I bear to see you all suffer if it were 
not that the goal to which it is leading is “the pearl of great price”, “the love that passeth 
understanding.”

Why are you one of the Circle? Because you have within you the very thing you now so earnestly desire 
- the capacity to love - and to love to the very end. And when this power to love has reached its 
perfected state, i.e., without any thought of self, then you will experience a happiness beyond anything 
you have as yet experienced. This is Union. Love for the Beloved, free from self.

It is in the effort you are making to control your moods and emotions and to get above these dark 
periods that has made you feel Me so near. You are right when you say “I haunt you”, so that your 
longing and desire for Me have become increasingly intensified. Why? Is it not I who all the time am this 
desire and longing? You are Mine and it is Myself in you I love. Is not the struggle worthwhile? To see 
ever more and more of Myself in My faithful Leyla to love?

And I promise you what you ask. As you struggle for this control so too you will grow calmer and more 
balanced.

I am happy that you are doing all you can to make your mother happy. She is all you say she is and 
much more besides.

I know you are ready to come to me whenever I send for you. In the meantime, you are doing all I told 
you to do. Get strong and keep well and fit. Eat well, sleep well, and above all let nothing worry you. Am 
I not always with you?

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 246, 24 July 2008
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