SEVEN SAHAVAS SAYINGS
Meher Baba
- Desire for nothing except desirelessness.
- Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
- Want nothing and you will have everything.
- Seek not to possess anything but to surrender everything.
- Serve others with the understanding that in them you are serving me.
- Be resigned completely to my will and my will will be yours.
- Let nothing shake your faith in me and all your bindings will be shaken off.
- Real happiness lies in making others happy.
- The real desire is that which leads you to become perfect in order to make others perfect.
- The real aim is that which aims to make others become God by first attaining Godhood yourself.
- Be angry with none but your weakness.
- Hate none but your lustful self.
- Be greedy to own more and more wealth of tolerance and justice.
- Let your temptation be to tempt me with your love in order to receive my grace.
- Wage war against your desires and Godhood will be your victory.
- Love others as you would love yourself and all that is yours.
- Fortunate are they whose love is tested by misfortunes.
- Love demands that the lover sacrifice for the Beloved.
- Real living is dying for God.
- Live less for yourself and more for others.
- One must die to one's own self to be able to live in all other selves.
- One who dies for God lives forever.
- This period of sahavas is the period of my suffering and helplessness.
- My glorification will follow my humiliation.
THE PATH OF LOVE, pp. 101-102
1986 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust
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