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

[Tavern-Talk]

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

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The Links, Bangalore
February 10 1940

Dearest Leyla,

I was indeed happy to receive, on the same day, two letters from
you and also your two articles for the magazine, which I know
were written for Me and came straight from the heart. I like both
and especially the one on Love.

When you feel this urge to express yourself on paper, never check
it. As you try to put these thoughts down they will become clearer
and give you a deep understanding. Much that is within is often in
such a chaotic state that to separate one idea from another is not
easy.

I know you better than you know yourself and I will teach you in
My own way all the things concerning your Real Self. Seek and
strive to know Me - your Beloved - and bit by bit you will know
your real Self, for am I not your real self. 

Realize me and you will know God. No other pursuit is
worthwhile when you have met the Beloved. Everything then
centres around Him. You see all beauty through Him be it
expressed through poetry, art, or music, or through life itself. All
work whether of your hands or academic is done for Him and
your only attachment is to your Beloved. All service then
becomes selfless whether done for friend, family or stranger. All
are one and toward this "One" the motive too is one - to please
Him, whom to please is to know. There is no other knowing.
Feeling is not knowing.

To please Me is to do, but doing what? That which your Beloved
commands you. This is My way, My path. "My yoke is easy and
My burden is light." My way with you all is the shortest way to
Union which I long for infinitely more than you can ever long.
Although the game is of My own making, still I must suffer to
enjoy the game of realizing Myself consciously in all creation.
But it is up to you, My beloved ones, who know Me in the flesh
as none other can, to lessen this suffering and give Me all the
happiness you are capable of. Will you do this for Me? Help Me
in thought, word, and action. Let your thoughts be always of Me -
your work spring always from love, and your action be expressive
of one who seeks in all she does to please Him who is ever
present in the heart of His Beloved Leyla. This thought will give
you eternal happiness and bliss in the midst of the sad times
through which the world is now passing and must face up to. The
suffering of all will be terrible, but remember that underneath are
the "Everlasting Arms" to keep you happy in your faith and love
to the very end. I will never fail you and will never leave you.

I am writing shortly to Minta. My love and blessings to your dear
mother and to all your family.

All My love to dearest Leyla.    

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 249, 14 August 2008
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