ONE'S HEART WILL TAKE HIM TO BE ONE'S OWN

 
Every time the Avatar comes in our midst He wants us to be rigid about only one thing — our love for Him. And just as often He tries to dissolve the universal feeling for rites, rituals and ceremonies.

Even at Baba's Tomb I have noticed a flavour of rigidity which to some extent may be necessary. However it should not ever lapse into total rigidity so that any person should fear to conform to a perceived pattern of devotion. Baba did not like rites, rituals and ceremonies and He kept reminding us to beware of getting into that rut, and we are trying our best and we struggle to keep Meherazad as home-like as possible, free from rites, rituals and ceremonies.

Now wherever there are people, there are hearts and minds and some minds may be led into believing that unless and until there is a rigid discipline, there's no chance of the heart dominating the mind, the belief being that through disciplining the mind the heart will have its free flow towards love for Baba. But for that to take place, there should be a real balance between the heart and the mind. Meher Baba's place is in the heart, not on some pedestal and where there is no pedestal, one's heart will take Him to be one's own.