Baba’s Teaching is Unique

Baba lovers don't 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 Vedanta) 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, Rao returned to Meherabad, 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 has roots in Buddhism, no Buddhist or Hindu had ever developed Baba’s system. I told someone this and he refused to believe me, literally saying Baba only said that he explained these things “better” than others in the past. That’s not what Baba said. Here is what Baba actually said and I’ve highlighted the pertinent parts.

The very foundation of all my explanations is sanskaras, which no religion has explained. (Lord Meher, 1986 print edition, p. 835)

I will give you some very new facts concerning sanskaras; truly, no philosophical books explain the term properly. (Lord Meher, 1986 print edition, p. 2250)

Where does Baba say he only explained the concept better! Or that he only clarified a few things. He literally said he gave “very new facts.”

What is unique in Baba’s teaching is that it is a system of psychic emergence. The way he explains the emergence of the Universe is psychically and in terms of sanskaras. In the past, Dharmic philosophers only related sanskaras to action. But Baba relates sanskaras to experience. They are responsible both for physical evolution and the evolution of consciousness. I have written and written about the uniqueness of this concept. And yet I’ve only reached deaf ears.