Baba’s Teaching is Unique
Many Baba lovers do not believe me when I tell them that Baba gave a teaching that no religion ever gave. They are sure it was said before by Buddha and is in the Buddhist canons or that Adi Shankara (the 8th century founder of Hindu Advaita) said it. But they are wrong. In 1956 (a year after God Speaks was published in English) Baba asked a disciple Thirumala Rao to translate God Speaks into Telugu – a major South Indian language. Two years later in Meherabad Rao came and laid his completed translation at Baba’s feet and gave a short speech. In his speech Rao reported: This book cannot be coordinated with any accepted tenets of philosophy in all its aspects. ( Lord Meher , Online Version, p. 4329) Yet Baba’s lovers refuse to believe this, so conditioned are they to think the Dharmic religions already knew what Baba came to teach. Baba had a unique system of sanskaras. While the concept of a sanskara (mental impression) has roots in Buddhism, no Buddhist other than Hindu had eve...