The Prophecies of Meher Baba

It's probably not a good idea for me to say much about Meher Baba. He was a 20th Century mystic from India who claimed to be the Avatar of the Age (that is, God in human form). I personally believe that He was who He said He was, primarily because of two traits He possessed: 1) He suffered voluntarily (and greatly), and 2) He did not sugar-coat reality. In my limited experience, these are two traits that virtually no holy man, or human, possesses. Reality is simply too painful for the vast majority of people, no matter how enlightened or well-intentioned, to meet head-on. That said, to mis-represent the Avatar is to bring about extreme karmic consequences - thus my reluctance to say much about Him. In spite of this, I recently went online to see if Baba discussed apocalypse, and found some notable quotes, which I have copied below.

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It seems that every personal ego has to come up to the surface and function, before it can be destroyed, so the national ego, the religious ego, etc., must undergo, in the same way, the same process of destruction. Love can then flow in to replace them. After the war, Baba told us this cleansing had by no means been fully accomplished, and that there was a choice of two ways to accomplish the rest.

One would be a third and devastating world war, and the other way would be through small wars, earthquakes, general physical upheaval, starvation for some groups, and religious groups vying with each other, their adherents killing each other to prove that their way was the only way to God.

Baba then looked around the group, and asked which we thought was the better way. For once unanimous, we said, ‘The second way.’ He made no indication as to the direction in which humanity would be swept, but certainly most of the things that he mentioned as the second way have already happened and are still, in many parts of the world, continuing to cause a general upheaval.

[1945?, India]

—Source: Margaret Craske, The Dance of Love, pp. 153-154

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“One day in the early forties, Baba called all of us and asked us ‘What will happen to this world? I’ll give you five minutes to narrate the worst scenario.’

“Each of us described the horror that the world would experience. After listening to all of us, he said,

“‘This is not even one percent of what will happen. The entire world will cry out. Food will not be available, and people will eat the cloth off their backs.

“‘I will give those who are mine a small amount to eat, but what will happen to the rest?’

“On another day, Baba told us, ‘I will close all the doors very slowly. Only then will suffocated humanity become conscious of fresh air.’

—Source: Mansari Desai, Glow International, February 1997, p. 9

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I spoke to Baba about someone who, in order to protect his family and himself from destruction foretold by Baba, wanted to establish a home way up in the mountains, and stock it with the necessary food.

Baba interrupted me and said, “No place will be safe, not even the top of the Himalayas. Only by the grace of God can one be saved.”

So I asked Baba if this destruction would be a man-made or a natural one.

Then Baba answered, “It will be both.”

[1950s]

—Source: Fred Winterfeldt, in The Awakener Magazine, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 40, http://www.theawakenermagazine.org

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