LIVE A NEW LIFE NOW

 
There is a beautiful story relating to a young woman in the 1930's. She came for the first time to meet Baba in America and immediately on seeing Him burst into anguished tears. She fell towards Him, weeping all the while. Meher Baba took her head and placed it on His lap and she continued to weep for some time. Then He gently raised her head and said, "What is it; why do you weep? You are so young, so healthy, so beautiful. What is it that troubles you?"

"Yes," she said, "I may be all that, and wealthy too, yet I am such a miserable, wretched person I feel like committing suicide."

Baba said, "That is a good idea. Do so this instant in My presence." And he took her head and placed it at His feet and said, "There, now you are dead."

Then after a while he lifted her up. "Now live again. Live a new life now. Completely forget the past and leave it aside. It has nothing to do with you. You are dead, and this is a new, fresh life."