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Meher Baba
There are several websites detailing the life and works of Meher Baba, one of which is www.meherbaba.co.uk, the website of the UK association. We came across Meher Baba through a series of strange coincidences 25 years ago. We'll put the full story on this website some time, but the gist of it is that Drew fired a stained glass portrait of Meher Baba as a favour for an American girl who was attending a stained glass course at the same college in London where he was studying in 1969. She didn't have a kiln. Drew did and offered to fire it for her. He didn't know whose portrait he was firing - and wasn't particularly interested. He didn't meet the girl again after returning the fired glass piece. By 1979 Drew had married Mara, and they were travelling in the USA, when they lost Drew's pouch, with their passports and all their money in it. This was in the wilds of California. Quite incredibly, the pouch was found, and returned, by the same girl for whom Drew had fired the stained glass portrait ten years before, and who happened to spot the pouch on the road whilst travelling on the way to a music gig along the same back country road some time after. As the population of the USA was then around 250 million it suggests that this was a 250 million to one chance! This had a lasting effect on us, and Drew changed from being a life long atheist to a believer in God.
Meher Baba stressed that all religions contain the same basic truths, and are all ways to God. The most important thing is to love God, and put other people's happiness before your own. He asked his followers to be honest and cheerful in their daily lives.
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