To: All Dear Ones
By email:
Date: December 20, 2001
Subject: Bhau’s Message for This Christmas and New Year

BELOVED AVATAR MEHER BABA KI JAI!

The following was sent to Emery and Susan Ayers and Nancy Marx (CPD), who wish to share it with all of Bhau’s dear ones.

From Bhau:

"In fact, Christmas continues every day, every hour, and every moment in our life, but because we remain involved with the world, we forget this fact. Once a year we celebrate Christmas with pomp and show, thus rendering it into a ritual and a ceremony.

Lord Jesus is always present in our heart, and because we forget Him, He comes down on earth age after age in order to make us aware of Divinity.

In this age, He came again as Meher Baba to awaken our love towards the Lord, Who He Himself is, so that we may celebrate Christmas wholeheartedly, with all love, and long and long to embrace Eternity, which is Here and Now. If we do this, we are celebrating both Christmas and the New Year simultaneously.

May Beloved Avatar Meher Baba bless us all with His love, so that we find Christmas and the New Year in the Eternal Here and Now and thus be free from the Dream of Illusion."*

With all love and Jai Babas to you, all dear ones.

In His Love and Service,
Bhau
Trust Office
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
December 20, 2001

* A note from Bhau: “The Dream of Illusion, the original Maya, is in the state of Nirvana, so when the Dream of Illusion spreads in different aspects, each aspect is small but still