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Original Title:	God Speaks
ISBN:	0915828022 (ISBN13: 9780915828029)
Edition Language:	English

God Speaks Hardcover | Pages: 348 pages

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Title	:	God Speaks
Author	:	Meher Baba
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 348 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1997 by Dodd Mead (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Religion. Spirituality. Nonfiction

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My daughter called this book "epic." That's a good way to start to intimate what kind of work this is: a clear look at "the big picture." Meher Baba's "God Speaks" is the description of the journey of the soul throughout all the realms of the cosmos, told as simply and directly as such can be done. This is the book that inspires the idea of Pete Townshend's song from "Tommy," the "Amazing Journey."

Avatar Meher Baba describes God as a limitless, shoreless ocean and each soul as a "drop soul" of that ocean. Each soul passes through the experiences of all beings: emerging in the gaseous state, and proceeding through the mineral; plant; fish; insect reptile and bird; animal; and human states. This is evolution guided by the soul's growth according to the patterns of experience (impressions, _sanskaras_) that the soul acquires. Evolution is driven by consciousness. At the human level we have the opportunity to engage in spiritual evolution, which Meher Baba calls "involution."

In human involution one enters on the spiritual path of seven planes. The first subtle planes are the basic practices of spirituality. The fourth plane is a transitional point between planes three and five in that at this level soul's acquire psychic and magical abilities which one must renounce in order to advance. Plane five and six are the mental planes. Plane five is the plane of the mind; plane six is the heart's mental dimension. The struggle of the soul in plane 5 is to conquer lust; in plane six, to conquer greed, in plane seven, to subdue anger. Saints dwell in the fifth, sixth, and seventh planes. Beyond that is the total return, the re-emerging into Godhood with its infinite power, knowledge, and bliss. This is the ultimate goal of life: to reenter the one Oversoul and re-unite with God. In this vision, heaven and hell are not places, but states of being.

Put more simply, the path is love. God created according to His own "whim," the whim to know Himself. This "whim" is an act of God seeking to love Himself and to be known by humankind loving God.

This is not a lonely journey as many spiritual masters -- and especially the Avatar -- are available for contact, support, and guidance, including power to give a spiritual push to the aspirant.

Although all together the book consists of 313 pages, it's just the first 153 pages that include Meher Baba's text. The supplements including notes from Baba's teachings and footnotes explaining many of the concepts in terms of Sufism, especially the poetry of 14th-century Sufi master Hafiz.

As indicated on page 30, in many ways Meher Baba's text explicates Jelaluddin Rumi's famous poem titled "The Ascending Soul:"

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet, once more, I shall die as man to soar
With angels blessed; but even from angelhood
I must pass on; all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, :et me not exist! For Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, 'To Him we shall return!'

"God Speaks" also offers 11 charts diagramming the details of the journey and correlating terminologies from Christian mysticism with Hindu Vedanta and Sufism, the three registers in which the book is set.

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My daughter called this book "epic." That's a good way to start to intimate what kind of work this is: a clear look at "the big picture." Meher Baba's "God Speaks" is the description of the journey of the soul throughout all the realms of the cosmos, told as simply and directly as such can be done. This is the book that inspires the idea of Pete Townshend's song from "Tommy," the "Amazing Journey."Avatar Meher Baba describes God as a limitless, shoreless ocean and each soul as a "drop soul" of

I have learned a little more about how God Speaks and how it has nothing to do with book and how many you read, nor is our purpose on earth to become trapped in the mind. I learned that I am not my body, I am not my Mind. And that God is love and Meher Baba is God.

True believer!, thank you.

Anti-intellectual solipsisticated chicanery.I tried to give the book a chance since it was recommended to me by a dear friend, but I couldnt even get past the Original whim chapter. I wouldn't say it is harmful or anything, its just that it promises too much greatness (after all, its the spiritual fruition of some Indian Sufi with a ridic mustache that claims to be a God) and yet it never delivers anything worthwhile. Right from the first chapters, God Speaks is eerily reminiscent of L. Ron

The only take away for this book is that it does not seem to be written to be simply read. It is very thick and yet at the same time very engaging. I started this book over three times and each time I gained a deeper understanding of the text. I will have to do the same with the entire book now!

Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, God in human form.From 10 July 1925 to the end of his life, Meher Baba maintained silence, communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. With his mandali (circle of disciples), he spent long periods in seclusion, during which time he often fasted. He also traveled widely, held public gatherings and

Bible-Geeta-Kuran-Upanishad and many more. If you can understand the meaning of love you don't need to read any of them.The God speaks is really fabulous to read.As the divine avatar of the century Meher baba is telling us things which is totally unthinkable by human.The science is trying to prove the existence of God. They have big bang theory, they have galaxies and trying to prove everything we have written in our ancient histories and BookS claimed by religion.But gOD SPEAKS IS NOT A