Meher Baba, in "How to Love God" (12 September 1954).He is the Creator, the Producer, the Actor and the Audience in His own Divine Play. It is He Who scoffs, and He Who responds. Again, it is He Who is tickled through some, and through others is shocked. Therefore it is God who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar. God does everything, and that nothing happens but by the Will of God. It is an unalterable and universally recognized fact since time immemorial that God knows everything. I know I am the Avatar in every sense of the word, and that each one of you is an Avatar in one sense or the other. The fact that God being One, Indivisible and equally in us all, we can be nought else but one, is too much for the duality-conscious mind to accept. If I were to say every one of you is an Avatar, a few would be tickled, and many would consider it a blasphemy or a joke. When I say I am the Avatar, there are a few who feel happy, some who feel shocked, and many who hearing me claim this, would take me for a hypocrite, a fraud, a supreme egoist, or just mad.Meher Baba, as quoted in The God-Man : The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an Interpretation of His Silence and Spiritual Teaching (1964) by Charles Benjamin Purdom, p.Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.Meher Baba, in statement before 1955, as quoted in God Speaks : The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose (1973), p.This has been going on cycle after cycle, and millions of such cycles must have passed by, and will continue to pass by, without affecting eternity in the least. The truth is that the Avatar is always one and the same, and that the five Sadgurus bring about the advent of the Avatar on earth. It matters very little to dispute whether there have been ten or twenty-six or a million Avatars. Whether there have been 26 Avatars since Adam, or 124,000 Prophets, as is sometimes claimed, or whether Jesus Christ was the last and only Messiah, or Muhammad the last Prophet, is all immaterial and insignificant when eternity and reality are under consideration.Meher Baba, in a statement of 1938, as quoted in Meher Baba On War : And Other Relevant Messages (1972) also Discourses (1987), p.As his appearance always coincides with the spiritual birth of man, so the period immediately preceding his manifestation is always one in which humanity suffers from the pangs of the approaching birth. The Avatar appears in different forms, under different names, at different times, in different parts of the world.
It is God who makes me say I am the Avatar, and that each one of you is an Avatar.