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

[Tavern-Talk]

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

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The Links
High Grounds
BANGALORE (undated, probably sometime in 1939)

My dearest Leyla,

Yes, you are right. I have not written to you for a very long time, but
then I have not written to anyone for some months past! Kimco, when I 
start writing again, will always come first. Why did not I write to 
Minta two days ago and today to you...

You speak truly and from deep experience when you say you can only 
learn through suffering and experience. Do you know these lines of 
Hafiz?

          He who would tread my Path, the thorn of grief will find
          What pilgrim hath in fear of this, his quest resigned.
          Thou knowest well, he who attains true perfect love
          Is he upon whose Soul grief as a lamp hath shin'd. 

It is the 'ego' which is the cause of this temporary suffering, but it 
is also the means to eternal happiness and bliss. In the unconscious 
state, there can be neither conscious suffering nor conscious bliss, 
but believe me when I say, that the real happiness which lies in store 
for you is well worth this present suffering and struggle. The greater 
the capacity to love - the greater the pangs of separation. These 
pangs of separation are felt, not only by those living physically 
apart from the Beloved but equally by those living near, - in fact the 
feeling of separation is greatly intensified when living close 
physically and whilst not having the conscious experience of union and 
oneness. The curtain, I purposely drew, hides this experience to 
enable you to do my work. You know it is all for my Circle, but for 
each of you to play your part you must take it seriously and so finish 
the work each came to do. Love  - work and obey me - each of you.

My work just now is heavy, apart from the Universal work for the 
upliftment of all I have the work of the Centre which entails much 
work and time, every detail of which I supervise personally, although 
allotting to each that particular side of the work to which each is 
suited. It is to be on a very large scale, consisting of many 
different sections, but all under the one guidance! ...

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Jai Beloved Baba!
Archives Team
Avatar Meher Baba P.P.C. Trust

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Heart Talk, Letter 248, 7 August 2008
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