September 25, 1987
by Anita Vieillard
Meher Spiritual Center
Myrtle Beach, SC
TRANSCRIPTION INSTRUCTIONS
A.) Find the BOLDED title below to select and click to open the pdf transcript.
B.) On the right side of this webpage (below for mobile), select and play the talk with the same title.
C.) Read along as you listen to Anita’s talk.
Note: Only BOLDED titles have transcriptions.
1. Kashmir Journey and Early Disciplines
2. Baba's 1931 London Visit
3. Princess Norina Matchabelli
4. Meeting Baba and Western Connections
5. When I Met Baba
6. Journey to Portofino
7. Fasting, Silence, and Uncla Kaka
8. Finding Kitty and The Play
9. Zurich, Cannes, and the Mast
10. I have Come to Awaken
11. Europe and Marriage
12. Myrtle Beach and Aging
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Anita and Kitty recount traveling with Baba to Kashmir, discussing Jesus's burial near Mount Hermon, and encountering a delayed road mending after a landslide near Rawalpindi. They describe how Baba cancelled their planned onward trip to China, explaining his method of separating disciples from ingrained ties to mold them internally.
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Kitty recounts how an extended illness and reading Ramakrishna opened her strict Protestant perspective to Eastern spirituality, leading her to Meredith Starr's retreat. She describes Baba's October 1931 arrival in London, his stay in her family's house, asking her to mend his torn sadra, and traveling on to East Challacombe.
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Anita recounts her introduction to Meher Baba through Princess Norina Matchabelli and details the extraordinary aura surrounding Norina's high-society life. She describes running into Baba's arms at their first meeting and subsequently attempting to paint His constantly shifting portrait.
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Anita talks about staying with Baba in Harmon and New York, including an electric sign in Times Square Baba pointed to with humor. She then narrates traveling across France with Elizabeth and Norina in an overloaded Stutz car to Portofino, where she caused a cupboard full of china to collapse.
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Anita recounts a dangerous cliffside walk above the sea where companions were trapped until rescued, followed by her breathtaking vision of Baba radiant in the sunlight. She also shares memories of Baba's exhausting work trip to Rome, the group's first day of fasting and silence, and Norina's discomfort with the name Kaka
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Anita recounts how Baba’s role was to awaken spiritual sight through inner silence and describes the difficult adjustment she faced moving from a personal relationship to his impersonal nature during the 1962 India gathering. She then responds to audience questions by describing her early bedtime, her lighthearted interactions with Baba, and how she sneaked food from a party to share with him in his room.
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Anita describes visiting Sing-Sing prison with Baba, conversing with him in Portofino about being God and man, and managing strict instructions for the Eastern women in Paris not to look at men. She also shares her escape from Paris on the last train during the wartime invasion and explains Baba’s advice to rise in love rather than fall in love regarding her marriage.
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Anita recounts a profound, universe-stopping silence she experienced while holding an umbrella over Baba at the Center and discusses enjoying her old age while younger followers lead the work in France. She then reflects on her sorrow regarding Baba’s tomb, explains that true love carries no expectations, and shares a story about Baba repeatedly washing his hands to remove inner rather than physical dirt.