Links Across Lifetimes

Figure 1

I watched a short video of Filis Federick talking about the links the Avatar makes with people during his advent. Don Stevens, she said, had been told by Baba that the Avatar decides in his current advent who will meet him in his next. These links are most important in the spiritual advancement of individuals. 

This got me thinking about my own links to the Avatar. Initially, I came to Baba via his book, God Speaks. It was Don Steven's book, Listen Humanity, that led me to Avatar's Abode. Figure 1 shows that I was then amongst the "people who have heard of Baba via the Internet, books or contact with people who know about Baba". 

On my first visit to Avatar's Abode, I met Lorna Rouse who, again referencing Figure 1, was one of those people who "have met Baba in his physical form" and was a member of his outer circle who had been allowed by Baba to live at Avatar's Abode. Lorna met Baba in 1958 and it was about forty years later that I met her. After this I met several other people at Avatar's Abode who had met Baba. I should say that throughout this "voyage of discovery" I was accompanied by my wife at the time. We had met in late 1992 and separated in early 2000.

I was with my wife when we travelled to Meherabad in the late 90's. The first person we met at the Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar was Bhau Kalchuri who was working in the garden and smilingly met us as we approached. Naturally, we assumed he was the gardener. Little did we know at that moment that he was Baba's gardener whose business it was to plant Baba seeds around the world. A year or so later Bhau visited Singapore and we were fortunate to meet him there for a few hours on his way back to Meherabad. Thus the first person we met was a member of Baba's inner circle.

I consider myself to be most blessed to have had these contacts and all that I can hope for is that these links may lead me to meet the Avatar in person during his next advent. Of course, that's up to the Avatar. You can find out more about Fillis Federick (second from the left in Figure 2) and other Baba lovers by visiting this site.

Figure 2