Don't Worry, Be Happy, Take LSD Timmy!

The most famous quote by Meher Baba is "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

These are the sole books Meher Baba ever wrote.

• God Speaks
• Beams from the Panorama
• The Everything and the Nothing
• Discourses
• Infinite Intelligence

The phrase "Don't worry, be happy" does not appear in any of them.

These are all of the messages Meher Baba gave in his lifetime:

• The Universal Message   
• The Highest of the High  
• Meher Baba's Call   
• The Final Declaration    
• Man-o-nash  
• High Roads to God  
• Twelve Ways of Realizing Me   
• How to Love God  
• Meher Baba's Last Warning    
• I Am Equally Approachable
• Baba's Sermon
• My Dear Children
• Word of My Love 
• My Dear Workers 
• My Wish
• Seven Realities 
• Universal Prayer & Repentance Prayer

The statement "Don't worry, be happy" doesn't appear in any of them.

While the phrase appears three times in the 6,742 page book Lord Meher, it only appeared in the 1990s. One example is on p. 4,136: "On 6 December [1956], Baba gave this personal message to his lovers: Don't worry, be happy. All will be well. Faithfully carry out the instructions given by me."

Apparently the phrase appeared at the end of some correspondences from Baba, akin to saying 'Best wishes.' And this was later appropriated from such correspondences and put on posters and inspiration cards in the late 1960s. And this is how the trope that this was Baba's main message began.

Having said all this, listen now to this recording of Timothy Leary responding to being confronted about Baba's message on drugs in 1967.



For the extended segment of the documentary that this interview was taken from go here.