Bananawalas as per Meher Baba..Correction on the 2 previous https

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Friends,

 

The information on the two https that I presented in my previous post

were incorrect, please note correction:

 

http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/glossa.html

 

and,

 

http://www.meherbabatheavatar.com/inc1.htm

(not it is a "1" and not an "l" in the inc1. section)

 

In the 2nd http, the story "Baba and the Scientist" is presented with

Meher Baba's answering a devotee's questions about infinite

consciousness in a finite form.

 

I was very thrilled to find this glossary, as I feel a deep

resonation in my own inner being to both sufism and hindu/vendanta,

and this Glossary (above first http mentioned) gives definitions and

terms for both traditions and explains much. Also very fascinating

to me was the information in the Glossary under "Sheriar (properly:

Shahr-Yar) Moondegar Inrani, who was the father of Meher Baba and

what he went through in his desire/quest for having the vision of

God/Oneness and the term "chilla-nashini", and as it says in the

Glossary: "Chilla-nashini is known to both Sufi and Vedantic

ascetics, but few ever dare to attempt it, since failure in the

penance has grave dangers. Refer to pay 78 of THE NOTHING AND THE

EVERYTHING for an explanation. Mystics refer to the forty days and

nights of Jesus' fast outside Jerusalem when he encountered Satan or

faced the powers of temptation."

 

The Glossary says this: "As a last resort, Shahr-yar wandered to an

isolated forest in Gujarat where he decided to perform what is known

as the chilla -- the forty-day and night-fast within a secluded

circle. The spiritual practice is also called chilla-nashini

(nashini is the person who does the forty-day fast and remains seated

in the circle of seclusion). Those who try it but do not succeed

usually die or suffer madness."

 

 

Blessings,

 

Kathy

 

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-- In , celestial_saraswati <no_reply> wrote:

> Dear Friends,

>

> Satish has kindly brought to my attention/consciousness, Meher

Baba.

> In looking up the glossary presented by Frank Davis on the

following

> website: http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/glossa.html, I found

a

> term with the following definition:

>

> walla (or wala): Used as a suffix to indicate one's trade or

role.

> Literally means' men".

>

> A suffix denoting an agent, doer, owner, posessor, keeper, or

> inhabitant.

>

> *as in guy or gal in the context of: A txi guy (a tongawalla),

that

> blonde gal, the motivated one, etc. Right now you're a

> readingwalla. It has been said by Bhau that this generation just

> after Baba's dropping the physical form who've been drawn to Baba

> are "Bananawal"; i.e., reincarnations of those many who had

received

> Baba's banan prasad from the numerous mass darshan programs in the

> last life.

>

>

> Satish: can you tell me who or what is "Bhau"? Can you give me a

> definition for this word?

>

> I found the above VERY interesting about bananawalas, as one of the

> things I bake a LOT of is banana bread...one friend recently told

me

> that it was the best that she had ever tasted!!! Oftentimes I pray

> (chant the Mruthanjaya (healing) Mantra as suggested by Sri

> Karunamayi) while putting together the ingredients for the bread.

> Like She says, when one chants a mantra while cooking, those sacred

> vibrations go into the food and it is very good/auspicious.

>

> Also, there is a *very* good story/explanation given on:

> http://www.meherbabatheavatar.com/incl.htm where in a scientist

asks

> Baba how it could be that the infinite can be in a finite form.

> The story is entitled, "Baba and the Scientist", source: Panj Pyare

> by D. V. Balakrishna Meher)

>

> Blessings,

>

> Kathy

>

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>

> Note: In the above definition given by Davis, I did not print out

all

> the reference books that his glossary key gives.