I have yet to meet a self-professed Baba follower who is not a hypocrite. A hypocrite is a person who professes to feel, believe, or be something he is not.
In fifty years I have not met a self-professed Baba follower that does not rabidly disagree with Meher Baba's core teachings - about creation, himself, God, nature, occult matters, and rights and wrongs. Faced with anything Baba said that goes against their own core convictions, political, moral, ideological or otherwise, they are quick to find an excuse for why they disagree with him on the point.
- His disciples told me to ignore his words on this; they all do
- A newly discovered hearsay rumor of a quote says otherwise
- The person Baba told was hysterical, and Baba told it to calm them
- Baba meant by that quote [fill in the blank with some fashionable Star Trek concept]
- There was probably an error in translation
- The author of the book made up the quote
- Baba spoke only in his own private language. By definition, a language that is private is not a language; it is baby talk or babble. Language: the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.
- We can't possibly fathom Baba's words with our mind, so in this case we are best ignoring them
- Baba said "understanding has no meaning." However, he also happened to say, "Love can be blind, selfish, greedy, ignorant, but love with understanding can be none of these things." The statement 'understanding has no meaning' is taken out of context.
- That was for those people in particular, not for us
- I had a dream or vision and he told me otherwise
- So and so said Baba actually said . . . (though it is not in writing, and the person who told the person who told me is dead)
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