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Discourses
The practical exposition of his teaching: the *sanskaras* or mental impressions that bind consciousness, maya, the ego, reincarnation and karma, violence and non-violence, meditation, love, discipleship and God-realisation. It alternates doctrinal explanation with stories from Indian and Sufi tradition, such as that of Majnun and Layla, and prefers explaining why some actions bind and others free over laying down moral rules. It is the work most read by his followers and the one that best shows the editorial problem of a silent teacher: between dictation and printed text stand several hands and several revisions.
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Authorship note
Sixty-nine discourses dictated on the alphabet board and prepared for the Meher Baba Journal (1938-1942) by Professor Chakradhar D. Deshmukh, with other members of the editorial committee; collected in five volumes (1939-1943) published by Adi K. Irani. Mani Irani wrote in 1955 that Deshmukh had 'embellished and worked up' the dictated points. Sixth edition in three volumes (Sufism Reoriented, 1967), re-edited with Meher Baba's approval by Ivy O. Duce and Don E. Stevens; seventh edition in one volume (Sheriar Press, 1987), by Eruch Jessawala, Bal Natu and J. Flagg Kris; revised sixth edition (Sheriar Foundation, 2007) with a study of its publishing history.
Editions and translations
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English
Meher Baba
Discourses (6.ª ed. revisada, 4 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryDiscourses (6.ª ed. revisada, 4 vols.)
Sheriar Foundation, 2007
ISBN 9781880619346
Incluye «A History of the Discourses».
Discourses (7.ª ed., 3.ª reimpr.)
Sheriar Foundation, 1995
ISBN 9781880619094
Discourses (7.ª ed. revisada)
Sheriar Press, Myrtle Beach, 1987
ISBN 9780913078570
Ed. Eruch Jessawala, Bal Natu y J. Flagg Kris.
Meher Baba
Discourses (6.ª ed., 3 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryDiscourses (6.ª ed., 3 vols.)
Sufism Reoriented, San Francisco, 1967
Ed. Ivy O. Duce y Don E. Stevens.
Meher Baba
Discourses (5 vols.)
The Conscious LibraryDiscourses (5 vols.)
Adi K. Irani / Meher Publications, Ahmednagar, 1939
Primera edición, 1939-1943; texto en la biblioteca en línea del Trust.
Français
Discours
Companion Enterprises, 1988
Translation: Françoise Lemétais
ISBN 9782950114952
Español
Deutsch
Meher Baba
Darlegungen
The Conscious Library
Other works by Meher Baba
- God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose · 1955
- The Everything and the Nothing · 1963
- Tiffin Lectures · 2017
- Infinite Intelligence · 2005
- In God's Hand · 1925
- Listen, Humanity · 1957
- Beams from Meher Baba on the Spiritual Panorama · 1958
- Life at Its Best · 1957
- God to Man and Man to God · 1955
- The Path of Love · 1976
- The Sayings of Shri Meher Baba · 1933
- Shri Meher Baba, the Perfect Master: Questions and Answers · 1933
- Divine Theme · 1943
- Messages of Meher Baba Delivered in the East and West · 1945
- Gems from the Discourses · 1945
- God in a Pill? · 1966
- Sparks from Meher Baba · 1962
- The New Life Circulars · 1949
- The Life Circulars · 1952
- On the Fiery Free Life · 1952
- Be True to Your Duty · 1954
- 6 Messages · 1955
- Final Declaration · 1954
- The Universal Message · 1958
- Meher Baba Journal · 1938
- Early Messages to the West · 2009
- Youthful ghazals signed 'Huma'
- Posthumous thematic pamphlets · 1969
- Lord Meher (biography by Bhau Kalchuri) · 1986
- The God-Man (biography by C. B. Purdom) · 1964
Sources
- Meher Baba. Discourses. 7.ª ed. revisada, ed. Eruch Jessawala, Bal Natu y J. Flagg Kris. Myrtle Beach: Sheriar Press, 1987 (3.ª reimpr. 1995), «Foreword» (historia editorial y carta de Mani Irani en The Awakener 3, n.º 1, 1955). Edición en línea del Avatar Meher Baba Trust.
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