Meher Baba: Young Adult Sahavas Quiz Notes

2011 Meherabad Young Adult Sahavas Quiz Notes

First Round

• Baba first met Babajan in 1913.
• Baba's three brothers: Adi Jr., Beheram, and Jal.
• Baba was 24 years older than His sister Mani.
• Baba's father, Sheriar, came from Yazd, Iran.
• Baba's favorite Sufi poet was Hafiz.
• Mehera's uncle who opposed Baba was Colonel Irani.
• Baba first came to the property later known as Meherabad on May 4, 1923.
• Meherabad means Compassion flourishing.
• Baba's first secretary was Chanji Dadachanji.
• Baba indicated Gulmai Irani (Adi Sr.'s mother) was His spiritual mother.
• Baba enjoyed playing marbles, cricket, flying kites, atya patya, seven tiles, and gilli danda.
• Baba's parents called Him Merog.
• The house in which Baba first lived in Pune was named Pumkin House.
• Baba's dog, Mastan, would not eat after Baba dropped His body.
• Upasni Maharaj's chief female disciple was Godavari Mai.
• The dhuni or sacred fire was first lit at Meherabad on November 10, 1925.
• Baba gave darshan to approximately 100,000 people in Ahmednagar's Wadia Park in 1954.
• Baba hit His head on a stone in His room in Pumpkin House in Poona to relieve Himself of the agony of coming back down to gross consciousness.
• The business started by the men mandali in the New Life was The New Life Ghee Company.
• Baba last appeared at Dara and Amrit Irani's wedding before dropping His body.

Round 2

• "The Family Letters" were circulars that Mani wrote about news of Baba during the 1960s.
• Before the start of the New Life, Baba sold almost all possessions, keeping only His future tomb and the land on which it stood.
• Baba dictated that “the New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one to live it."
• Baba had a mad and mast ashram starting in 1936 in Rahuri.
• Mohammed Mast called Baba Dada.
• In Baba's "Universal Message," He dictated, "When I break my Silence, the impact of my Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel, and receive of it."
• Baba's high school and college in Poona were St. Vincent's High School and Deccan College.
• Baba dictated about His sister Mani, "She is my true sister in My work."
• Baba dictated about His closest female disciple Mehera, "She is my very breath without which I cannot live."
• The free boy's school started at Meherabad in May 1927 was named Meher Ashram.
• In Baba's message, "Meher Baba's Call," He dictated, "I tell you all, with my Divine Authority, that you and I are not “WE,” but "One."
• Baba dictated, "The New Life is a life of hopelessness and helplessness...in which rely only on God."
• Eruch stated that Baba dictated to come to the Samadhi time and time again to imbibe the divine Sanskaras..
• After informing His disciples of His intention to keep silence, Baba said, "I have come not to teach but to awaken."
• Gustadji Hansotia's grave marker in Lower Meherabad is raised because Baba conveyed that Gustadji got God-realization when he dropped his body.
• Baba started His silence on 10 July 1925 and He started writing “The Book” on 13 July 1925, both in the Jhopdi.
• Francis Brabazon's book Stay with God was, according to Baba, second in importance to God Speaks ("a feast for the head and heart").
• In His early twenties, Baba worked as the manager of a theatrical company and in His father's toddy shop.
• Nariman and Arnavaz's apartment in Bombay, where Baba often stayed, was named Ashiana.
• Seclusion Hill at Meherazad was formerly called Tembi Hill.

Round 2 worth 100 points

• The "chilla-nashini" that Baba's father, Sheriarji, performed to try to attain God Realization was a forty-day and night fast within a secluded circle without eating, drinking, and sleeping.
• After Sheriarji performed thirty days of the "chilla-nashini" and was near death, a divine voice told him, “He whom you seek, He whom you wish to see, His attainment is not destined for you. Your son, it is your son who will attain it, and through your son – you."
• Hazrat Babajan said to Baba when she embraced Him the first time in May 1913, “Mera Pyara Beta... Mera Pyara Beta ...My Beloved Son."
• Gadge Maharaj was the saint who took Baba to Pandharpur in November 1954 to give moonlit darshan to 70,000 people.
• In Baba's message "Highest of the High," He dictated, "[B]lessed is Knowledge that is gained through the experience of Ignorance."
• The East-West Gathering took place at Guruprasad Poona from 1st – 4th November 1962.
• In Baba's message, "Meher Baba's Call," He dictated, "Live not in ignorance. Do not waste your precious life-span in differentiating and judging your fellowmen, but learn to long for Love of God."
• Baba had car accidents in 1952 in Prague, Oklahoma, USA and 1956 in Udtara, Satara, India.
• Nana Kher used to greet visitors to the samadhi with the words, "Welcome home."
• The 1954 sahavas with Baba at Meherabad became known as "Three Incredible Weeks". About 20 Western men attended, and Baba released His message "Meher Baba's Call" while giving darshan to approximately 100,000 at Wadia Park in Ahmednagar.
• A quotation on the board in Baba's bedroom that He had read out shortly before He dropped His body: “Befitting a fortunate slave, carry out every command of the Master without any question of why or what. About what you hear from the Master, never say it is wrong, because, my dear, the fault lies in your own incapacity to understand him. I am the slave of the Master Who has released me from ignorance. Whatever my Master does is of the highest benefit to all concerned."
• The colors at the bottom and top of Baba's flag are red (at the bottom, representing lustful sanskaras) and blue (at the top, representing God-realization).
• Baba declared His Avatarhood on 10th February 1954 in Meherastana hut in Hamirpur.
• Baba released His Universal Message in Lower Meherabad's Mandali Hall on 10th July 1958.
• At the Prem Ashram, “Chotta Baba” had a special experience where Baba temporarily brought him up to the sixth plane so he could see Baba in everyone and everything.

Round 4 questions

• Kaikobad would repeat Baba's name 100,000 times a day at Meherabad by Baba's order.
• At the Imampur Mosque near Meherazad, Baba asked Eruch to put out a baby bird into the night, then repented by having the mandali hit Him with their chappals.
• Upasni Maharaj threw a stone at Baba at the Khandoba's Temple in Shirdi.
• The period from March to May 1923 during which Baba and the mandali worked hard to renovate Meherabad's property is called The “Ghamela Yoga" period.
• Upasni Maharaj performed Baba's Arti at Khushru Quarters in Ahmednagar on Baba's birthday in 1936.
• Elizabeth Patterson and Norina Matchibelli searched throughout America to locate land suitable for Baba's center in America.
• The Jessawalas' house in Nagpur that Baba would visit was Bindra House.
• Raja Gopichand was the name of the play enacted by Baba's order by the inmates of the mad ashram in 1938.
• Baba's Blue Bus Tours began in 1938.
• Baba's Universal Spiritual Centre was planned to be built in Byramangala, India, 22 miles from Bangalore.
• Baba last met Upasni Maharaj about two months before Upasni Maharaj dropped the body in Dahegaon in October 1941.
• Bhau Kalchuri's real name is Vir Singh, which means "lion hearted." Baba dictated that Bhauji would be lion hearted in his work for Baba.
• Baba met Gandhi three times in 1931 on the ship Rajputana, during which time Gandhi read part of Baba's secret book.
• God's "lahar" is defined as God's whim to know Himself which set into motion the beginning of creation.
• The state immediately following the vacuum state of Nirvana is Nirvakalpa Samadhi, the “I am God" state.
• After Baba completed a 5 1½ month fast in 1927 on the future site of His Samadhi, He criticized the women mandali because the delivery boy, who was supposed to be delivering a flask full of coffee to Baba every day during the fast, would actually drink half of the flask before delivering it to Baba.
• Eruch joined Baba in 1938 and Bhauji in 1953.
• The Maharani of Baroda owned Guruprasad palace in Poona, where Baba would stay and give darshan during the summer months during the 1960s.
• Sobs and Throbs is the book that Ramjoo Abdullah wrote about Ali, one of the Prem Ashram boys who kept running away from home to see Baba.
• An Irani boy in the Prem Ashram: Aloba, Esphandiar Vesali, Babahusrow
• Baba said that He sowed the seed of His Manifestation in Meheshad, Iran.
• Baba held a meeting with the spiritual hierarchy in a cave associated with St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, where He planned the spiritual evolution of humanity for the next 2,000 years.
• Baba's ashram when His Western women disciples came to live with Him was in Nasik.
• The Cosmopolitan Club was formed by Baba as a boy, whose members could not gamble, tell lies, drink alcohol, etc.
• In Baba's message, "Meher Baba's Call," He dictated, "The time is come. I repeat the Call, and bid all come unto me."

Additional Questions

• Parvardigar Prayer and Universal Prayer are other names for the Master's Prayer.
• In Baba's message "Highest of the High," He said, "If I am the Highest of the High my Will is Law, my Wish governs the Law, and my Love sustains the Universe."
• Doctors who looked after Baba's health: Dr. Goher, Dr. Nilu, Dr. Donkin, Dr. Ginde, Dr. Grant, etc.
• Baba dictated, "If you love me as St. Francis loved Jesus, you will not only realize Me, you will please Me."
• Keshava Nigam wrote “Meher Chalisa,” the poem of forty couplets about Baba that was read out to Him, after which He embraced the author.

Round 1 (more rapid fire)

• Both Hazrat Babajan kissed Baba, giving Him God-Realization, and Upasni Maharaj threw a rock at Baba, helping to bring Him back down to normal human consciousness? between His eyebrows
• Baba attended (St. Vincent's High School and Deccan College)
• Baba used to give darshan in Poona during the 1960s at (Guruprasad)
• Baba dictated that He has come to “bring all religions together like (beads on one string)
• Trips that Baba took around India with His female disciples starting in 1938 called : (The Blue Bus Tours)
• Baba's parents? (Sheriar and Shireen)
• Hazrat Babajan born? (Baluchistan in northern India)
• Darshan programme in Poona in 1962 that brought together Baba's disciples from all over the world? (the East-West Gathering)
• One female disciple of Baba who had visited or lived near Upasni Maharaj before coming to Baba? (Gulmai, Gulmai's sister Soonamasi, Mehera, Mehera's mother Daulatmai)
• Year Baba first come to the property later known as Meherabad? (1923)
• God-intoxicated people that Baba often visited to give them a spiritual push and for them to help in His Universal Work? (masts)
• Where did Baba begin His great silence? (in His Jhopdi at Meherabad)
• Where did Baba's women mandali first stay at Meherabad? (in the Post Office)
• To relieve the agony of coming down to normal human consciousness after gaining God-Realization from Hazrat Babajan, what did Baba do? (He hit His head until it became bloody in His room in Poona.)
• For how many years after the Avatar's Manifestation did Baba say that the five Perfect Masters would not be in the limelight or publicly known? (100 years)

Round 2 worth 50 points (More questions)

• Name Baba's five Perfect Masters and the cities in which they were based? (Sai Baba of Shirdi, Upasni Maharaj of Sakori, Hazrat Babajan of Poona, Tajuddin Baba of Nagpur, and Narayan Maharaj of Kedgaon)
• What was Baba doing when Babajan beckoned Baba over to her to give the kiss that gave Him God-Realization? (bicycling to Deccan College)
• Who wrote the Family Letters, which would inform Baba's worldwide lovers about His activities (Baba's sister Mani)
• What silent disciple of Baba had been a disciple of Sai Baba and Upasni Maharaj before he came to Baba? (Gustadji)
• What is the meaning of name of the house “Manzil-e-Meem” that Baba and His men mandali stayed at in 1922 in Bombay? (House of the Master)
• Give the names and types of two animals that Baba owned or were around Him during His life? (Mehera's horse Sheba, Pegu the cat, Mani's dog Peter, Mastan the dog, Lucky the monkey, Elizabeth's dog Cracker, Sufi the horse, Saint the ox, etc.)
• Baba dictated, “The more you think of Me, the more you will realize [blank] (“My love for you")
• What did Baba dictate about the visit Hazrat Babajan paid to Him at Meherabad in 1928? (It was the “most significant and eventful day of my life" / greatest day of my life)
• Although Baba stressed the need for a living Perfect Master, Who did He say is “the eternal living Perfect Master”? (Himself / the Avatar)
• What was the name of the structure that Upasni Maharaj stayed in near Sai Baba at Shirdi? (Khandoba Temple)
• Name two of the things that Baba said one must renounce or give up in order to live the New Life? (falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed, and lust)
• About Mehera Irani, Baba's closest female disciple, Baba said, “Mehera loves Me [blank] (as I should be loved)
• What was the name of the annihilation-of-the-mind phase that Baba went through at the end of the New Life? (Manonash)
• Who did Baba say controlled the events of World Word I? (Sai Baba of Shirdi)
• What type of business did Baba's father Sheriar open in Poona, at which Baba also worked? (A toddy shop)

Round 3 questions worth 100 Points

• Baba said that Hazrat Babajan gave Him infinite [blank], Sai Baba gave Him infinite [blank], and Upasni Maharaj gave Him infinite [blank]. (Hazrat Babajan gave Him infinite bliss, Sai Baba gave Him infinite power, and Upasni Maharaj gave infinite knowledge.)

• What is the name of the piece of clothing that Baba used to wear almost continuously from 1921-1929 that He dictated “is the most sacred of my possessions”? (the kamli coat)

• What is one thing that happened when Baba and Upasni Maharaj met for the last time in Dahigaon on 17th October, 1941? (Baba took darshan of His Master, Upasni cried, Upasni said, “I leave everything to you,” and Baba gave him a box of His lockets.)

• Meher Baba gave six wishes of the Beloved. (1. Do not shirk your responsibilities. 2. Attend faithfully to your worldly duties, but keep always at the back of your mind that all this is Baba's. 3. When you feel happy, think: "Baba wants me to be happy." When you suffer, think: "Baba wants me to suffer." 4. Be resigned to every situation and think honestly and sincerely: "Baba has placed me in this situation." 5. With the understanding that Baba is in everyone, try to help and serve others. 6. I say with my Divine Authority to each and all that whosoever takes my name at the time of breathing his last comes to me; so do not forget to remember me in your last moments. Unless you start remembering me from now on, it will be difficult to remember me when your end approaches. You should start practising from now on. Even if you take my name only once every day, you will not forget to remember me in your dying moments.)

• When Baba made a mistake in the New Life, name two things He would have His companions do to Him to show His repentance? (twist His ear, hit Him with their chappals, spit on Him, slap Him)

• What did Upasni Maharaj say to Baba to indicate He is the Avatar? (“You are Adi Shakti [Primal Power].")

• Although Upasni Maharaj dressed in a [blank], Narayan Maharaj lived like a [blank]. (gunny sack / loin cloth and prince / rich man)

• What did Hazrat Babajan call Baba? (mera baccha or mera piarra beta / my child or my beloved son)

• In what type of institution did Tajuddin Baba live for sixteen years? (an insane asylym / mental institution)

• What is the name of the head Perfect Master? (Qutub-e-Irshad)

• To what events was Baba referring to when He indicated, "I got my physical bones broken so as to break the backbone of the material aspect of the Machine Age, keeping intact its spiritual aspect." (His car accidents in America in 1952 and India in 1956)

• What was the name of Upasni Maharaj's closest female disciple? (Godavri Mai)

• What do the light blue and red colors represent in Baba's flag? (light blue, the highest color, represents God-realization; red, the lowest color, represents lust)

• What did Upasni Maharaj do when he visited Khushru Quarters in Ahmednagar in 1936? (He performed arti before Baba's photograph.)

• What is the name of the whim God had to create the universe so that He could fully know or realize Himself as infinite power, knowledge, and bliss? (lahar)

• Where in Ahmednagar did Baba give darshan to 1 lakh (100,000) people? (Wadia Park)

• Who was the Prem Ashram boy who said he saw Baba everywhere? (Chota Baba)

• • What year did Baba stop using His alphabet board? (1954)

• What do the light blue and red colors represent in Baba's flag? (light blue, the highest color, represents God-realization; red, the lowest color, represents lust)

• Lessness and lessness - in which we rely on ( hopelessness and helplessness, God)

• Life of complete of Falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust (renunciation)

• Baba was neither God or master but a (companion, Elder Brother, Friend)

• Baba said he expressed perfect during the new life. (Humillity)

• Two of the rules of the new life were to appear -cheerfully/ happy and to never express.

• The new life will live by itself (even if -eternally Was named Manonosh - the mind that baba went through

• Baba where to do the Manonosh (seclusion hill) Property that Baba sold before the new life (Samadhi the place) Four types of animals that travel . (bullock, donkey, camel, horse)

• Baba Who was westerner to accompany bab in new life (DD. Donkin)

• Who was. The youngest woman to accompany mama through new life

• Life-Meheru at age 22 Who did baba spend,majority that is his great seclusion which proceeded the New Life-the blue bis Where did baba meet his followers August to tell the, about ew life.

In what buildings Did mama during the nw life -Guruprasad Which has children companions, to Suffer

Ahmadnagarstation-the companions walk, from the new life Wheer did she take the new life- Belgaum

• How many people take the new life with .Menra, manu, Giza, Goher four men that made a ew life -Eric - ,Gustandi, Banula, Pandu

5. Baba bowed ,how,many - 10,000

6. What,was Kaisoba’s job -repeat,the lords amr Who,wrote the- dr. Which was one of ,baba,s prayers Repentance

7. What was the men’s clothing at - white robe and green turban 10.what were,the ,mistakes new life.

Throw paper In fire at -All Rites 12 After walking what would women