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1949 |
June 22-July 31 Great Seclusion in Blue Bus set up at Meherabad – Aug. begins talking about “New Life” – Oct. 16 start of New Life – training period at Benares – new life in full starts Dec. 12 with caravan of animals heading north from Sarnath
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| 1950 |
New Life travels: Haridwar, Motichur, Rishikesh, Calcutta, Gudur, and Hyderabad – in Rishikesh contacting sadhus, saints, mahatmas in their places – Baba referred to only as “Elder Brother”
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| 1951 |
Feb. 100 days seclusion in Mahableshwar – Aug. start of four months Manonash phase of New Life – hill cave near Hyderabad then in two cabins on Seclusion Hill – then cabins moved down to Meherazad – Nov. at Khuldabad dictates Prayer of Repentance – Baba emerges from seclusion Feb. 1952
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| 1952 |
Free Life period – move permanently to Meherazad at Pimpalgaon – April first visit to Meher Center on the Lakes with 5 men mandali and 6 women mandali – May 24 auto accident in Prague, Oklahoma – recover at Myrtle Beach– “complicated free life up to July 10 – to New York: Sufism Re-oriented charter set up – Nov. returned to India – Nov. 15 start of “fiery free life” – travels to 36 towns and remote hamlets giving darshan, washing feet of the poor
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| 1953 |
Dehera Dun in seclusion from Feb. 16 for the rest of the year – intense universal work – composed Master’s Prayer – Sept. 7 declaration he is Avatar in “Highest of the High” discourse – first issue of Awakener journal
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| 1954 |
Jan. to Andhra Pradesh – mass darshans – February to Hamirpur – Feb. 9 at Mahewa, birthplace of Keshav Nigam, all-night sahavas - at 1am Feb. 10 Baba spells out on alphabet board: “Avatar Meher Baba Ki Jai” – assembled villagers begin shouting the acclaim in waves of adoration – Madras darshan for 150,000 – tour of South India until March 24 – September Meherabad Three Incredible Weeks – Oct. 7 gave up alphabet board began using finger signs
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| 1955 |
Jan. 9 ends 40 day fast – begins travels giving mass darshans around India – Nov.-Dec. Sahavas programs at Meherabad for invited devotees – 4 groups divided by language groups
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| 1956 |
Jan. 8-day darshan at Sakori for Godavari Mai – July to Europe (Switzerland, Paris, London) – then to New York and second visit to Meher Center on the Lakes in Myrtle Beach – continues on to San Francisco, Meher Mount – first trip to Australia, Avatar’s Abode – Sept. God Speaks published – Dec. 2 second auto accident near Satara
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| 1957 |
Feb. touches feet of 800 poor at Meherazad – visits Sakori and Poona giving darshan to thousands
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| 1958 |
Feb. Sahavas program for Eastern Lovers at Meherabad – May: Sahavas for Western lovers at Myrtle Beach Meher Center - June to Australia Avatar’s Abode – (last trip to the West) – July 10 Meherabad gives Universal Message – from July began seclusions that lasted on and off for 10 years until the end of his life – July 14 four and a half months “total seclusion” with all communication and contact cut off, correspondence banned – resident mandali kept separate and restricted – selected mandali participated in first 40 days intense period with fast , repetition of God’s name and other orders – works in seclusion with selected masts and Kaikobad – suffered numerous health problems – sends circular to all lovers asking them to reply by Nov. 20 if they are prepared to place full trust in him – concluded seclusion with 21 day fast – nearly 30,000 replies to circular received by end November from around the world – to Guruprasad December |
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