Norina's Gift
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Messages from Meher Baba received by Princess Norina Matchabelli in the vibratory thought order of Light-Wave Projection
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[modifier] Do Not Stifle Your Heart
Meher Baba through Princess Norina Matchabelli
Ye Doctrinaires and Philosophers of the world !
Do not stifle your hearts with dry and highsounding theories.
Your loftiest theories are not worth one moment of Divine Love.
Leave your hair-splitting theories to take care of themselves.
Free yourself from the unending disputes about trifles.
All things appear in the right perspective in the final understanding of realisation.
When reflected in the intellect, the indivisible wholeness of Truth gets broken into many aspects or facets.
Attachment to one aspect makes you blind to other aspects.
Far beyond the creeds of the world is the simple perception of the Real.
Be no more distracted by words, phrases and slogans.
Collect yourself.
In the stillness of mind, there is unfathomable understanding.
[modifier] The False Must Go
Meher Baba through Norina Matchabelli
The false must go to make room for the real.
Those, who come to me for Light, have to be humble.
Pride is the stronghold of delusions.
The meek ones shall be bestowed with the power of my Light.
You can not be God before being truly human.
People should not come to me for mere solace or sterile instruction.
Only those, who invite themselves drastic changes, will have my Truth.
God is like the mighty wind that blows out all rubbish from every nook and corner.
He reaches out to all the darkened recesses of the heart and illumines them with His transforming Light.
Those, who are touched by his descending Grace, become new.
[modifier] Transformation Of A Princess
Christopher Wilson and Charles Haynes
After her arrival in New York, Norina attracted much media attention. The following is excerpted from the New York World Telegram of September 10, 1941. The article contains two pictures, one of Norina as the Madonna in The Miracle, the other a photo of her taken in 1941, in which she wears a simple black dress and a pearl necklace. The headline reads : « Princess Back to Teach World ‘to Give’ : Disciple of Meher Baba in India Learns to Put Aside Worldly Things — She’s a Different Person Now » :
Princess Norina Matchabelli, after spending five years in India as a disciple of Meher Baba, Parsee spiritual leader, has returned to America to spread the word of her teacher. New York will remember her as Maria Carmi, the exotic Italian actress who once played the role of the Madonna in The Miracle.
Park Avenue knew her as the beautiful and socially minded wife of the late Georges Matchabelli, Russian perfume manufacturer...
WENT TO INDIA
It was after her husband’s death that the Princess Matchabelli went to India to live at Ahmednagar, where Meher Baba has his main ashram.
She smiled. « I was still very worldly. I took along my 50 dresses, 60 pairs of shoes, 20 hats, my perfumes, and jewels. Everything I had here. Baba didn’t say don’t use these things. He put me in a luxurious ashram with other new followers. Finally, the day came when we were ashamed to have all these luxuries when all the others were living so simply. Baba’s hut had only a mattress on which he slept and a little carpet on which he received visitors. He’s truly poor, never accumulating, always sharing. Suddenly I became aware I was living like a crazy bourgeois. I gave away everything but this dress, » pointing to the one she had on, « and a simple change of clothes. »
The dress she had on was one bought eight years ago at Vionet’s. The pearls she found in a bag when she began to get ready to come back to New York.
DIFFERENT PERSON
« But I had no hat. I traveled bareheaded all the way from India. When I got here I bought a hat for
2.50. » She smiled. « I met a friend on the street a few days ago whom I hadn’t seen since 1936. She was elegant in the latest hat, the newest style dress. She asked me where I’d bought my hat. She said it looked so chic. »
Walking through the streets, the Princess wonders if it can be she. « I am an entirely different person, » she declared. « I am liberated. I am no more dependent on riches, social advancement, extraordinary foods. Once I couldn’t sleep on a bed unless it cost a certain price. Now, I turn as a flower toward the sun. I make my own breakfast of toast and tea and usually burn the toast because I am distracted. I buy my own food in the market. I carry it home in brown paper sacks. I do my own room, my own laundry. When I look back on my former life with all of its complications and worries I can see I was a crazy old fool. Through Meher Baba I have become an entirely different world citizen. I’m a young and happy woman. »
[modifier] Be Calm And Serene
Message received by Princess Norina Matchabelli in the vibratory thought order of light-wave projection September 1948, India
Be calm and serene.
Let your heart overflow with kindness and mercy.
In you, the desires to be useful come from me.
I descend in you to awaken in you the will to be God.
Man will inherit life spiritual.
Through good and evil, the self-relising function is ever advancing.
Whether you know it or not, you are all slowly coming to me.
Learn to love me more than your very selves.
Believe and you will be taken onwards.
In the ripeness of experience, all shall know me.
[modifier] Silent Reunion
Christopher Wilson and Charles Haynes
... Kitty, who took care of Norina in the last years of her life, once related a moving encounter that took place when Baba was recuperating from his injuries suffered in the 1952 acci- dent. That summer he visited Duke University Hospital, to have his cast removed and be examined by a doctor. Norina was hospitalized there at the same time. Her physician, believing that the excitement might aggravate her condition, advised that she not be told of Baba’s presence at Duke. The doctor realized how difficult it would be for Norina to know of the painful details of the automobile accident and the extent of Baba’s injuries. One day Norina was being pushed through the hospital in a wheel- chair when suddenly and unexpectedly she came face to face with Baba, also in a wheelchair. Kitty recalled that they each sat, looking at each other without speaking, once again having a silent reunion.
[modifier] The Intuition Of The Impersonal Self
Princess Norina Matchabelli
Group Talk Delivered in New York March 5, 1942
The external world does not realize the real meaning of « yoga » as the science by which men can understand their own spiritual structure.
The new age is utterly ignoring the spiritual Order within man. This is due to man’s high evolution of his rational mind. If men were less rationalistic, they would be easier in their own spiritual attainment to higher consciousness. There is no real objection in attaining higher understanding of the real values, which are to understand within the ordinary human being as the consciously understanding human being, what is the fact of the God-conscious Human Being.
The ordinary human being has no idea of this fact. He can not have a realized idea or experience of this fact, because he has no real desire to understand above that which the ordinary human being calls the intelligent order of thinking.
No human being nowadays has the right approach to this pure function within, which is the Intuition. It is misinterpreted in general and it is misinterpreted in particular by the psychoanalysts.
They all have the superstitious attitude to think that the Intuition is a false mental method to approach the inner or the spiritual side of man. I am here speaking a normal language because I can not talk a mystical language in this Western Hemisphere where the rationalistic approach has fixed a definite outlook against this Intuitional Awakening in this new cycle of evolution. This thought order transmission was received by Norina Matchabelli through the Grace of Meher Baba in the talks with the intimate group in the U.S.A.
This new cycle of evolution has a definite purpose to fulfil in man’s mental constitution. The new mental constitution of man will be to realize through Intuition what the intellect or the rational method can never make men understand, and through understanding transform them into a deeper consciousness of life.
The new consciousness of this age will be therefore that all men shall have a far deeper insight, such as Intuitive Understanding.
Intuition is a mental condition whereby man can understand the inner organic structure of his whole mind. When we say his whole mind, we must understand the Eastern viewpoint that the whole mind is all that is, was and ever will be the universally apparent world ; we cannot figure it out in any different way, because this is exactly what men will have to realize in this new evolutionary epoch through their insight, which is the equivalent term for Intuition.
All these terms will also have to be rectified in the future through the actual immediate experience of the individual who will be capable of feeling within through the intuitive sense the right term. Terms and names are superfluous viewed through criticism and diversion of opinion, when once the Experience is synonymous to any kind of a term. Those who can read mystical language are those who feel the inner meaning, of no matter what term or word the writer is using.
The mystical language altogether will in the future, be much more appreciated, as the human being will have the real feeling for whatever is the sense or meaning within the term or word.
The new age is apparently developing towards unification of thought creativeness and a pure feeling. These two diversive ways of understanding and knowledge will never be any more a matter of dispute, when once the head and the heart will have united in experience of the deeper meaning or sense which is a mystical fact that men of the intellectual type can not deal with.
The new age can no more be defined than by the new Awakening within the spiritual understanding ! This new awakening within can no more be consciously developed by man himself through study or the ordinary three-body- yoga science, and here is the point where enters... the new Avataric power of rhythm as the Awakener of the new spiritual side of man.
Whatever we may call yoga science, has its end when the fourth body, named the Ethereal body, is stirred, brought to awareness into the realm of the mind in the self-conscious individual.
This is namely what I call... Yoga of Truth.
The Yoga of Truth means the actual awareness of the spirit body as the Soul substance of man. This is the so-called fourth body, which is the Christ body. It is the only Form which the Avataric figure will use in this world, the Earth, in this new dispensation of realized Truth. It is not to be an uttered word in the ordinary sense that will be a Divine Personification of the Avataric Appearance ; it will be the Rhythm as Power, that will do the awakening appeal to the general world as mankind. The rhythm as power will have to be so strongly experienced that it will subdue the intellectual reaction, and make men realize within, through the intuitive awareness of the creative universal mind that it is endowed with Divine Light. Man shall therefore, then really and truly, become conscious of what he talks and thinks... the Divine Light. As I have said in my previous discourses, the Divine Light can not be realized by man until he has realized within himself the inherent fact of the awareness of the Soul.
The human being today is deluded through too much intellectual understanding and knowledge about his own inherent God-consciousness. Men have no idea of that which is the realization of the inherent God-conscious state. When men talk about it, they dispute about the best of themselves which is... the possibility of being really acceptant and humble.
To be acceptant and humble means... to abdicate to find through mental study, through intellectual research, through continuous borrowed knowledge... the true fact within, which is inherent, latent, but... far beyond the intellect and all its imaginary possibility to find through struggle of its own thinking process, that which never can be found intellectually.
The energy which is spent uselessly through mental research of that imaginary inherent God-consciousness is almost pitiful. But what is there to be done ? The intellectual seeker who comes to India to find Truth is naturally honest in his intention, but very childish in his pretense to find it ready-made. No man can find it ready-made. It is the most tedious, hard and difficult task to come up against... this finding of the Truth.
What is after all this Truth of which everyone is so curious nowadays ? The relativity of Truth is not to be avoided, and to understand this, is better than to be utterly agnostic and to deny the fact of Truth which is to be conscious within of one’s own inherent God.
Truth is nothing else but that. I come back to the term of Yoga of Truth and I state here for the general public of the Western world that it is... to have been awakened within by the Grace of the new Avatar.
The new Avatar is a Man. This Man must be recognized when He manifests in His full Power as the God Who is needed in Form of a Man. To be needed by man means, that man himself has not yet realized his own inherent God-state and has to be made wholly, holily happy to be able to become that God-Man.
For all human beings, it is a terrific task to attain to this higher state of consciousness, but when they once see with their own eyes, feel with their own heart, understand with their own intellectual discrimination, what is to be the fulfilled form of man, they shall not hesitate to go on and find the Path through which it only can be possible to attain this ultimate conscious state called God. Man is super-human being, as he is. Nothing is different in the inner structure of man... only the external structure differs and makes men appear separate human creatures with separate ways of interpretation, separate habits, separate desires and needs. The human being in itself is in its spiritual structure in tune with its Divine Being yet undetected God-conscious state. So, Yoga of Truth cannot be any further pursued, studied or found or bought or hired or borrowed... it is Grace from the Avataric figure. This fourth body is in all men the same substance and through this aware-conscious feeling of this substance... shall man come to greater inner understanding, of each other’s needs. Only through this awareness of the Ethereal form will man come to deeper understanding of what is meant by new world order. All men have an idea of this term, but how childishly they figure it out !
Nothing will be new in this earth. No one will invent a new machine to detect the God within. Nothing can be done to make men happy. Nothing more will be done to create a more religious outlook. All has been done in the past ages, or let us say years, since the appearance of the last Avatar who was Jesus for the Christians and Mohammed for the Eastern world. These two great Avatars have brought about a deep change of consciousness throughout all parts of the world. Men do not yet appreciate it. They will appreciate it after this world war is fought honestly and profoundly in all parts of the world. The deep changing consciousness which has come to its fullest fruition in this war shall progress during the new dispensation.
The new dispensation has to be understood as the fact-making, order-doing consciously experienced ethereal form in man which is awakened by the Avataric Figure. This Christ- conscious figure whose name is today Meher Baba will not be misinterpreted when It shall create the fact within man which is above described.
The new dispensation is the same old dispensation of all times when the Avataric Figure has been personified by the pure selfless human being. It is nothing more or less than the fulfilled form of the God-conscious Divine human being that has power to create in man what man as himself cannot create. All else is superfluous to be said on the fact of this new dispensation.
Three messages
5 Give no more attention to the distracting schools of thought. Have faith in me, and I will do the rest. I bring to you liberation from the anguish of petty achievements. I will free you from the fear of death. The path of those who seek the immutable Self in its impersonal aspect is long and winding. Those who come to me without the burden of prejudices will get the illimitable Truth.
29 I have come for all. Those who in their thoughtfulness seek the Path are dear to me. They will get into the Path. These chosen ones will come to me—the Truth. I do not allow them to linger any more in the wilderness. I am always by their side when they need my help.
Life for everyone is largely preordained by his past. Try to be utterly pure in thought, word and deed. Be serene and self-composed. God in you is pure joy. God in you is pure love. God in you is pure understanding. God in you is limitless in creative power. Everything comes from God and goes back to him.
30 You have come on earth to realise God. I do not ask you to go to the caves like the saints of the past. Remain in the world without being entangled therein. Do not renounce your duties with the hope of becoming spiritual. Do your duties, but have no desires for personal gain or reward. Let not your status or achievements fill your mind with false pride. When you offer your mind, in love and faith, I do everything through you. You will then be no more bound by what you do. You will be unattached, and yet in full action. You will remain free in the midst of your works. You will worry no more about what life brings to you. You will dwell in unshakeable peace, in spite of the tribulations in the world. You will be my torch-bearers.
[modifier] Message 12
My Love goes out to you in measureless abundance.
I have been waiting for you for aeons.
I know the ache of your heart.
I will wipe out your tears.
You will dwell in me, in life ever-lasting.
Take courage in your hands.
Smite with all your might; and your desire-self will meet its death.
Be your own Higher Self.
[modifier] All Shall Know Me
Be calm and serene.
Let your heart overflow with kindness and mercy. In you, the desires to be useful come from me.
I descend in you to awaken in you the will to be God. Man will inherit life spiritual.
Through good and evil, the self-realising function is ever advancing. Whether you know it or not, you are all slowly coming to me.
Learn to love me more than your very selves. Believe and you will be taken onwards.
In the ripeness of experience, all shall know me.
[modifier] Lines Of Energy
Adi K. Irani
Norina Matchabelli has explained that later in 1941, a definite call to speak about the Master, and his Mission to those in America, came to her from within and that, though the Master was at that time in India, thousands of miles away from America, she received the thought-order to move from the eastern coast to the western coast of the U.S.A. As a result of that, she took the holy name of Meher Baba to the centers of spiritual activities, applying herself to the spiritual mission of the Master. She had gone there with the Blessings of the Master; and since she was entirely in tune with the Master, her lectures to groups of spiritual aspirants were a source of great help to them. Many members of the audience had spiritual experiences of the highest order and they felt convinced that the Master was doing his spiritual work through her addresses. I am herewith reproducing extracts from letters from two important persons, who had the privilege to attend her lectures.
Mr. S. C. writes:
"When the Princess entered the room and started to speak, after a few moments, I was impressed with what Baba transmitted through her; but I was particularly impressed with what I actually saw. What I saw was a simple, very matter-of-fact material occurrence. I saw, coming through the Princess, lines of energy going in all directions, reaching into everyone present in the room, just in the same way as you would imagine electrical energy coming continually from a battery... The lines were solid and well defined (no hazy mirage or something intangible)... It was later, when I was at home and thought over what actually had taken place that I realized the great work that a powerful Master was actually accomplishing from such a great distance...
"I asked myself the question: 'What was the meaning of these lines of radiation?' A great Master like Baba does not do things just to show power. For the ten or more years that I have known Baba, one of the outstanding features that characterized him was WORK. Baba always works. And we, the human beings of the world are the objects of his work. God is always in servitude....I suddenly realized the purpose of these lines of electrical power-radiation (of course, they are more powerful and more subtle than electricity)....They were intended to cleanse the layers of our accumulated mind-impressions, which Baba calls 'Sanskaras.'"
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