The Story of Compassionate Love

Mehera J. Irani the eternal consort of Avatar Meher Baba picked the color of the cover of her autobiography Mehera to be a green like the green in the background of this website.

So in selecting the color green for this website, I also gladly and gratefully echo, affirm and honor Mehera's choice.

Mehera's name like the name Meher Baba, means the compassionate.

"She is my very breath without which I cannot live..." Meher Baba

Thich Nhat Hanh emphasizes the breath as the central practice of meditation. "Breathe." "Breathhing in, I am Buddha; breathing out, I am Buddha." Breath and the word Buddha. It is all here. Mehera and Meher manifested and demonstrated these possibilities of being. They successfully established themselves, were accepted and received as immortality symbols.

This is the love story of Compasionate Love.

Mehera, whose name shares a lineage and heritage with Sanskrit and Iranian-Persian deity and bodhisattva names Maitri, Metta, Mithra Maitreya, and now Meher, is the name also of Meher Baba, her consort, the human being who effused endless compassion and love, even if, and when, it hurt him to effuse that compassion and love. I call it "effusing" because it is the effervesence Durkheim discussed. Meher Baba especially conducts that transmission through his eyes, hands and heart.

These simulations of immortal, infinite, eternal divine love may be happening on a variety of levels. The Sufis call it nazar the gaze a very striking and powerful word. It's a little less than a stare, a little less than a strike. and the real total feeling is more like an ocean, a hot tub, a message. it is a message with a massage, a love envelope, a love-bubble.

Sometimes the transmission happens just by serving tea or feeding a student directly from the master's hand to the student's mouth, as in placing a morsel of food into the student's mouth to spiritually feed the student and to establish a deeper heart-connection.

And the Hindus and Indian Zoroastrian exile community of Parsis call it darshan, auspicious seeing and being seen.

In the Qur'an, Moses has to persuade his teacher Khidr the Green One to take him on as a student. Part of the contract challenge: the pedagogy was going to be active learning. Moses, or the Sufi student using this story to reflect on mysteries of his own master-disciple relationship, confronts questions of active learning and transmission. The transmission question means that Khidr has to make Moses confront his trust issues. And Khidr makes Moses' promise to follow a protocol for how you ask questions. The training began with a set of agreements. And the pedagogy is enacted in specific problem-solving context. Khidr presents Moses with three moral dilemmas. If Moses can trust and surrender he can receive this direct person-to-person, face-to-face transmission.

Mehera succeeded with Meher Baba in that he said she was his every breath. So these transmissions resemble the moment when Krishna discloses that the the real secret is that because Radhe is the perfect devotee, she is to him, the greatest object of devotion. Krishna admits thast one should worship Radhe, because he worships Radhe. That follows thjat story of Mahmud and Ayaz, where Ayaz the slave realizes and Mahmud the King his friend realize that their friendship shofts the valuation process and value of all the wsorldly goods the king possess. Thus Ayaz declines an offer to own all ocf the King's treasury, because, since he already through complete devotion and sedlfless service "poowns" the King through lkove, "possesses his heart," why would he wanrt something sol worthless, or whihc in a sense he alrfeady owns. Mehera recognized her jewel adn Meher Baba recxognized in her hisa jewel.


And Mehera provides a direct face-to-face confrontation with Meher Baba. One learns by looking at the way Mehera looks at Meher Baba and how Meher Baba lookis at her ande how differnet nhe sometimes looks when he's with her and the way that one can feel that the difference shows up because Meher Baba is present to her and she is present to Meher Baba.

And Mehera and Meher's story is the eternal love story of Radha and Krishna, of Sitas and Rama, of Mary Magdala and Jesus, of 'Aisha' and Muhammad, of Kasterbhai and Mahatma Gandhi. There is a womamn companion, a fellow traveler who has this special connection and role or set of inter-related roles.

It is very important to highlight, illuminate and reflect omn Meher's way of speaking the praise of Meher Baba:

BELOVED AVATAR M EHER BABA KI JAI !

Mehera's adding of "BELOVED" to articulate "BELOVED AVATAR MEHER BABA" adds sufficient syllables of beauty in lyric and rhythm to evoke an entire musical phrase.