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This is a list of followers of Meher Baba who met him.

Followers of Meher Baba who met him
Name	Notable for	Place of birth
Mehera Jehangir Irani – "Radha"	Meher Baba's chief woman disciple
Shireen Sheriar Irani – "Memo"	Meher Baba's mother	Bombay
Sheriar Mundegar Irani – "Bobo"	Meher Baba's father	Iran
Manija Sheriar Irani - "Mani"	Meher Baba's sister	Pune
Beheram F. Irani - "Behramji", "Buasaheb" or "Barrister"	Meher Baba's first disciple
Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff – "Ghani"	Baba's boyhood friend	Pune
Feramroz Hormsuji Dadachanji – "Chanji"	Baba's first secretary
Moreshwar Ramchandra Dhakephalkar - "Dhake"	Began as teacher in Hazrat Babajan School
Rustom Irani – "Masaji")	Pendu's and Naja's father
Sanjeevani Moreshwar Dhakephalkar	Dhake's wife
Munshi Rahim – "Munshiji")	Devout Muslim	Kasba Peth
Naval C. Talati	Influential person in Bombay
Khak Saheb	Manzil-e-Meem and Poona
Jamshed Sheriar Irani	Baba's elder brother, died in 1927	Pune
Walter and Hedi Mertens		Switzerland
Khodadad Farhad Irani – "Nervous"	Manzil-e-Meem
Sampath Aiyangar	Devount Hindu, circle member	Madras
Swamiji	Vedic Pandit
Arjun Supekar	Owned paan–tobacco shop in Kasba Peth	Kasba Peth
Kondiram	Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem
Sayyed Jamadar	Poona and Manzil-e-Meem
Kaikhushru Keki Irani – "Lattoos"	Boyhood friend
Faredoon Masa	Uncle, married to Shirinmai's sister Dowla
Khan Saheb Kaikhushru Irani (donated all Meherabad land)
Biharilal (lived in Meherabad as mandali, late 1920s)
Kaikhushru Masa	Soonamasi's husband	Bombay
Kunjbihari Choubey	Translated Baba's Discourses into Hindi
Manek Ranji	Old devotee in Rahuri, near Nasik, India
Sadhu Christian Leik	Meherabad disciple, 1920s	Estonia
Nadirsha N. Dastur	Lived in Meherabad as mandali late 1920s
Chowdhari	A cook in Manzil-e-Meem	Kasba Peth
Abdur Rehman (Manzil-e-Meem – "Barsoap")
Dowlat Padir (Meher Ashram student 1927)
Lewis Charles Nelhams (first Christian mandali, died 1925)
Garrett Elsden Fort	Hollywood screenwriter – suicide 1937
Jamboo Mama	Beheramji's maternal uncle	Poona
Quentin Tod	London actor, died of malnutrition in 1947	London
Sohrabji M. Desai	Gujarati literary scholar	Navsari, India
Gangaram Pawar – "Ajoba"	Hindu disciple in Manzil-e-Meem
Ahmed Khan Gavai (Muslim disciple in Manzil-e-Meem)
Tehemtan	Eldest son of Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji
Khodadad Moondegar Irani	Sheriar's elder brother	Iran
Shah Khodadad (Baba's cousin, 1st son of uncle Khodadad)
Pulad Khodadad (Baba's cousin, 2nd son of uncle Khodadad)
Swami Bhabhanand (suicide in 1941 from guilt for murder)
Nusserwan Kerawala (Banu Satha's husband)
Dr. Y. G. Karkal (medical physician who worked with the poor in hospital at Meherabad, 1920s; died in Meherabad, 1927)
Genu Chambhar (Prem Ashram boy, liberated in 1929)
John (Meher Ashram student – Christian)
Ram Nath (Meher Ashram student – Hindu)
Bala Supekar	Brother of Arjun Supekar	Lonavla
Ali Akbar Jr. - "Majnun"	Persian Prem Ashram Boy
Abdulla Pakrawan – "Chhota Baba"	Prem Ashram boy
Sohrabji Vakil	Parsi devotee from Surat	Surat
Faredoon Irani (Baidul's son – Meher Ashram student)
Beheram Irani (Baidul's son – died young in Iran, 1930s)
Hormazdiar Irani	Baidul's son – died young in Iran, 1930s
Bapu Ghante	Brahmin in Poona and Manzil-e-Meem
Kashinath – "Kashiya"	The laundryman at Manzil-e-Meem
Lala Pathan	Watchman in Ranchi, Nasik and Meherabad
Chintaman Rao	devotee from Ahmednagar	Ahmednagar
Beheram M. Desai	Mansari's father	Navsari
Ardeshir N. Desai	Keki Desai's father	Delhi
Manekji Confectioner	Kaka Baria's sister's husband
N. Namdar Dastur	Parsi – worked in Meher Ashram school
Rustom Dinyar	Lived as mandali at Meherabad, late 1920s
Bhausaheb	Dattu Mehendarge's father
Rashid Khusroo Irani	Meher Ashram boy	Jaffrabad, Iran
Jamshed Beheram Sheermard	Baidul's father–in–law	Iran
Sheermard Khorband Irani	Prem Ashram boy	Iran
Esfandiar Vesali	Prem Ashram boy	Iran
Sohrab Jehangir Irani	Parsi	Iran
Khan Bahadur Pudumji	Influential person in Bombay	Bombay
Palanji Motiwala	Close friend of Eruch's father, Papa Jessawala	Jabalpur
Motabava Khajotia	Elderly Jessawala family friend	Nagpur
Naoroji R. Satha	Gaimai Jessawala's saintly father	Nagpur
Merwan Kaikhushru Irani	Member of Kaikhushru family
Golvadwala Sohrabji Irani – "the Old Man")	Masaji's cousin
Golvadwala's son	Died young
Dhunjibhoy Kerawala	Jal Kerawala's father	Nagpur
Sakkur	Faithful servant in Prem Ashram
Beheram Rustom Salengi	Baba's personal servant
Ardeshir Khodaram Irani	Meher Ashram schoolboy
Rustom B. Irani	Bomanji's brother	Karachi
Kaikhusroo	Owner of an ice cream shop Baba frequented
Hormuzd Boman Irani	Pilamai's husband	Karachi
Kasam	Ramjoo Abdulla's son – died young
Faredoon Irani	Dowla Mondi's son	Poona
Otto Billo	Father of Irene Billo	Switzerland
Behli Jehangir Irani (Baba's boyhood friend, worked in "mad ashram," Poona. Spelled his name "Baily")
Rustom Jehangir Irani (Baily's brother – Poona)
Sohrab Rustom Irani (Sailor's brother – Poona)
Bejanji Ramji (friend of Soma Desai – Navsari, India)
Dr. K. Daruwala (medical physician in Meher Ashram)
Jamshed Mehta (friend of Mahatma Gandhi – Karachi)
Sadashiv Patel's uncle (Hindu in Poona)
Jaka Seth (Ramjoo Abdulla's father–in–law – Lonavla, India)
Jamshed Irani (one of Baba's several cousins – Bombay)
Khodadad Masa (Uncle, married to Shireenmai's sister, Banu)
Arjun Supekar's father (Hindu in Kasba Peth)
Jal Kerawala (Papa Jessawala's friend – influential in Nagpur, India)
Jehangir Damania (Shireen Satha's husband – Ahmednagar)
Rustom L. Elavia (Gustadji Hansotia's cousin – Gujarat, India)
Sohrab Mavali (Parsi devotee)
Rashid Irani (Baba's cousin, son of Khodadad and Banu)
Hormusdiar Beheram Irani (Zoroastrian – Khooramshar, Iran)
Faredoon Irani (nicknamed by Baba – "Pedroo")
Babu (Anna 104's brother-in-law – Ahmednagar)
Dinshaw (Baba's Uncle, Shireenmai's brother – Poona)
Nonny Gayley (mother of Rano Gayley – New York)
Countess Nadine Tolstoy (Russia – married to Leo Tolstoy's son Ilya)
Mabel Ryan (ballet friend of Margaret Craske – London – "Firozeh")
Dowla Masi F. Irani (Shireenmai's sister – Lonavla, India)
Pilamasi R. Irani (Pendu's and Naja's mother – Poona)
Kakubai Deorukhar (Vishnu's mother – Poona)
Naja B. Irani (Sailor's first wife – Kasba Peth – "Najudi")
Jibboo Irshad (Ramjoo Abdulla's daughter – died young)
Freny Masi N. Driver (Padri's mother – Daulatmai's sister)
Yeshoda Gadekar (Gadekar's mother – Ahmednagar)
Kamlabai Dhakephalkar (Dhake's first wife – Ahmednagar)
Mrs. Kalemama (wife of Kalemama – Ahmednagar)
Christine McNaughton (Scottish girl, came to India in 1933. Killed during a German air raid on London in 1941)
Shanti (daughter of Kaka Shahane – Ahmednagar)
Gita S. Patel (Sadashiv's wife – Poona)
Banubai M. Confectioner (Kaka Baria's sister – very devout)
Banubai Lakdawala (Nargis Kotwal's paternal aunt – Bombay)
Khorshed Pastakia (devoted Parsi – Karachi, Pakistan)
Banu Irani (Baidul's daughter – died young)
Zohra Pirzade (Sayyed Saheb's wife – Nasik, India)
Daughter of Sayyed Saheb (died young)
Mrs. Burjor Dahiwala (neighbor near Manzil-e-Meem ashram)
Dhakubai (Arangaon villager – willed her property to Baba)
Khodabad Circlewala's daughter (Dairyman's wife – Bombay)
Mehera Khodaram Irani (wife of cinema owner – Nasik, India)
C. D. Deshmukh's mother (devout Hindu – Nagpur, India)
Shirinbai Sohrab Irani (Mehera J. Irani and Padri's saintly maternal grandmother – Poona)
Bhikaiji N. Hansotia (Gustadji's mother – Gujarat, India)
Dhondibai (Baba's nanny when he was infant – Poona)
Sita (worked as cook at Meherabad – Arangaon villager)
Helena Davy (mother of Herbert and Kitty Davy – London)
Dinamai Satha (wife of Jemi Satha – Ahmednagar)
Shanta (Meherabad servant, wife of Kashiya – laundryman)
Sunder Bhagaji (loyal servant at Meherabad)
Bhikaiji Desai (member of large Parsi family – Navsari)
Baijimai Boman Desai (Soma Desai's sister – Navsari)
Jagannath Gangaram Jakkal – "Anna 104"
Anna Jakkal (wife of Anna 104 – Ahmednagar)
Rawatmani (Aunt, wife of Shireenmai's brother, Dinshaw)
Chingutai (Kalemama's daughter – Ahmednagar)
Pila Homi (Homi Satha's wife – Ahmednagar)
Khorshed Jehangir Damania or Khorshedmai (nicknamed "Fuimai" which means "Father's sister." Was betrothed to Eruch Jessawala by Baba. However, although married, they never lived together and Baba later ended all contact with her for following a man Baba said was a false saint named Mangharam Mirchandani)
Maina Patel (Sadashiv's daughter – died young)
Jeejabai (Sadashiv Patel's mother–in–law – Poona)
Gustadji (or Gustadjee) Hansotia (Baba's best friend and "Shadow" – God-realized upon death in 1958 at Meherazad)
Daulatmai (Mehera J. and Freiny J. Irani's saintly mother)
Gulmai K. Irani (Baba's "Spiritual mother" – Ahmednagar)
Rustom K. Irani (Adi K. Irani's elder brother, hermit in Rishikesh)
Dr. Nilu Godse (killed in Udtara auto accident, 1956 – died in Baba's physical presence, as he wished)
Vishnu Deorukhar (under Baba's guidance since teenager – reincarnation of the French Emperor Napoleon I)
Rustom Jafrabadi – "Baidul"
Khodadad K. Irani – "Asthma"
Khodadad Rustom Irani, (boyhood friend of Baba, nicknamed "Khodu," then "Sailor")
Kim Tolhurst – "Ayisha"
Gabriel Pascal (Hollywood film producer - "Phoenix" and "Panther")
Margaret Scott (New York)
Malcolm Schloss (author and poet)
Princess Norina Matchabelli (co–founder with Elizabeth Patterson of the Meher Spiritual Center – "Noorjehan" meaning "light of the world")
Terry Duce (Ivy O. Duce's husband – big oil businessman)
Will and Mary Backett (Baba's "Archangels" – England)
Charles Purdom	British literary scholar, biographer, and editor
Douglas Eve (friend of Charles Purdom in London)
Warren Healey	Printed literature about Baba in America
Beryl Williams	Distributed Baba's photographs in America sent from India by sister Mani	New York
Elizabeth Chapin Patterson – "Dilruba"	Co-founder of the Meher Spiritual Center with Princess Norina Matchabelli
Kitty Davy – "Saroja"	On the Blue Bus tours in India in the late 1930s	London
Zillah Brown – "Mumtaz"	Kitty Davy's niece
Margaret Craske – "Zulekha"		England
Delia DeLeon – "Leyla"		England
Carrie Ben Shammai		Israel
Ruth White - "Old Soldier")	Lived to be 100	United States
Jane Barry Haynes (U.S.A.)	Head of Meher Spiritual Center in 1980s and 90s
Dr. Charles C. Haynes)	Doctor of Divinity and senior scholar at Vanderbilt University's First Amendment Center	Myrtle Beach
Wendy Haynes		Myrtle Beach
John Haynes		United States
Ann Conlon	At East West Gathering, 1962	United States
Darwin and Jean Shaw	Very early American followers	United States
Phyllis and Lyn Ott (– "Phylyn")	Artists who met Baba in 1965. Established residence on Meher Spiritual Center in 1966.	Boston and Pennsylvania
Tom and Yvonne Riley	Met Meher Baba in Myrtle Beach, 1958	Woodstock, New York
Fred and Ella Winterfeldt – "Fredella")		New York City
Frank Eaton	Original caretaker at the Meher Spiritual Center	Myrtle Beach
Harold and Virginia Rudd		New York
Ralph and Stella Hernandez		Florida
Kecha & Henry Kashouty		Virginia
Erwin and Edward Luck - "Baba's Divine Idiots"		New York
Rick Chapman - "Moochewalla," which means "the man with the mustache"	Harvard graduate. Met Meher Baba at Meherazad in 1966, one of Baba's drug apostles assigned by Baba to spread his message on drugs	California
Robert Dreyfuss	Hitchhiked to India and met Baba at Meherazad in 1965	United States
Dana Field	Eccentric dietician, slept on the floor with Baba's pictures on his bed	California
John Bass		New York
Irene Billo		Switzerland
Murshida Rabia Martin-never met Baba, but wrote to Him, recognized Him, was too ill to go to India and meet Him, so she sent her successor, Ivy Duce in her place, and turned her Sufi Order over to Him.	First Murshida of Sufism in America, appointed by Hazrat Inayat Khan, brought the Sufis to Baba
Don E. Stevens	Standard Oil of California (later Chevron) executive and Sufi under Murshida Rabia Martin. After Baba "reoriented" Sufism, Don was asked by Baba to edit God Speaks (with Ivy Duce) and also asked to write the introduction. Later Baba asked Don to create a new book, entitled Listen, Humanity, for which Baba gave Don original material and detailed instructions. Later still (1960s) Baba asked Don to edit his Discourses, resulting in a 6th edition of the same. Baba also asked Don to film spiritual sites around India particular to His work, and some that are national treasures.	Imlay, Nevada
Murshida Ivy Oneita Duce	First Murshida of Sufism Reoriented	San Francisco
Charmian Duce Knowles	Daughter of Ivy Duce	U.S.A.
Filis Frederick – "Filadele" (with Filis Frederick)	Editor of Awakener Magazine
Adele Wolkin – "Filadele" (with Filis Frederick)		California
Agnes Baron	Lived at Meher Mount in Ojai, California
Ludwig H. Dimpfl	Wrote glossary for God Speaks
Herbert Davy	Brother of Kitty Davy	London
Jeanne Robinson Adriel	Wrote the book, Avatar
Alexander Markey	Co–founder with Jean Adriel of Meher Mount in Ojai, California in 1948
Dr. Goher Rustom Irani - "Dr. Goher"
Arnavaz N. Dadachanji
Mani Beheram Desai – "Mansari"
Meheru Rustom Irani
Naja Rustom Irani
Khorshed Kaikhushru Irani
Katie Rustom Irani	Goher's sister
Madeleine E. Gayley - "Rano Gayley"	Artist. Painted Theme of Creation chart for God Speaks	United States
Anita De Caro Vieillard (Zurich, Switzerland – "Chuchulu")
Roger Viellard	Chuchulu's husband
Faredoon Nawrosjee Driver – "Padri"
Eruch Byramshaw Jessawala - "Eruch"
Byramshaw Jessawala – "Papa Jessawala")	Eruch's father
Gaimai Byramshaw Jessawala	Eruch's mother
Meherwan Byramshaw Jessawala	Eruch's brother
Manu Byramshaw Jessawala (Eruch's sister)
Meheru Jessawala (Eruch's sister)
Sam and Roshan Kerawalla
Adi Kaikhushru Irani (Baba's second secretary, known as Adi K. Irani)
Adi Sheriar Irani (Baba's brother "Adi, Jr.")
Gulu A. Irani (Adi Jr.'s first wife and Viloo's younger sister, who died after giving birth to Adi's son and Baba's nephew Dara Irani)
Freni Irani (Adi Jr.s second wife - Ahmednagar)
Ali Akbar Shapurzaman – "Aloba"
Aspandiar Rustom Irani – "Pendu"
Chintaman Vishnu Natu - "Bal"
Jal Sheriar Irani (Baba's brother)
Dolly and Jal Dastoor
Dr. C. D. Deshmukh or Chakradkar Dharnidharr Deshmukh (Indian professor of philosophy and original editor of Meher Baba's Discourses)
Francis Brabazon (Australian poet, founded Avatar's Abode)
Dr. Harry Kenmore (Baba's chiropractor)
Bhau Kalchuri, born Vir Singh Kalchuri – "Bhauji")	Baba's night watchman, author, principle biographer, and chairman of Avatar Meher Baba Trust
Dr. William Donkin (Medical doctor who wrote The Wayfarers about Baba's work with the masts)
Ramjoo Abdulla (Author of Ramjoo's Diaries)
A. R. Abdulla	Ramjoo Abdulla's son
Tukaram Chawan - "Mohammed Mast"
Sarosh and Viloo Irani	Elected mayor of Ahmednagar in 1952
Dara and Amrit Irani	Dara is Baba's nephew and Meher Baba performed their wedding in 1968
Rustom and Sorab Irani (Baba's twin nephews)
Nariman Dadachanji
Will & Mary Backett
Graham and Lettice Stokes	Baba stayed in their house in Greenwich Village in 1932
Keki and Freiny Nalavala
Naosherwan Nalavala (– "Anzar"	Editor of Glow International
Parmeshwari Dayal Nigam, – "Pukar"		Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh)
Keshav Narayan Nigam		Hamirpur
Dr. Ram Gundo Ginde	Famous Bombay surgeon who wrote Baba's death certificate in 1969
Minoo Kharas
Eruchshaw – "Pesu"
Ruano Bogislav - "The Eagle")		Paris
Marion Florsheim – "Energy"
Charles ("Tex") Hightower	Dance student of Margaret Craske	United States
Bili Eaton		New York
Sylvia Gaines
Mildred Kyle	Buried near Baba's Samadhi
Laura and Lee Delavigne – Baba's "Neighbors"	Sufis	United States
Kaikobad Feram Dastur (Parsi priest, God-realized at time of death)
Andy and Peggy Muir
Kaikhushru J. Pleader	Kept in a room for two and a half years only on milk. God-realized at time of death
Savak and Nargis Kotwal
Savak and Nargis Kotwal's family, Hilla, Najoo and Adi
Soli Kotwal	Brother of Savak Kotwal	Bombay
Venkoba Rao
Kaka Baria
Kaka Shahane
Valu Pawar
Slamson	Gustadji's brother
Krishna Nair	Baba's night watchmen during the 1940s and early 1950s
Amrathlal K. Deshi
Jim and Rhoda Mistry
Adi and Rhoda Dubash
Anna Kale
Murli Kale	(Ahmednagar - Meher Baba's Mandali and New Life Companion)
Sittaram Dattatrey Deshmukh (Ahmednagar, Mandali from very early days to end – "Chhagan")
Pandurang S. Deshmukh ("Pandoba")
Feram B. Workingboxwala
Bhagubai (Jamadar's wife)
Dowla (Baidul's daughter)
Kakubai Deorukhar
Jangle Master
Muktabai (Jangle's wife)
Naggu (Meheru's sister)
Nargis (Savak's wife)
Pilamai Hormuzd
Radhabai (Sidhu's wife)
Sarwar (Baidul's daughter)
Shantabai (Chhagan's wife)
Silla (Pilamai's daughter)
Soltoon (Baidul's wife)
Soonamasi Engineer (Mother of Dolly Dastur)
Soonamasi Irani (Mother of Small Khorshed)
Small Khorshed
Bala Tambat
Ramchandra Bapu Kale – "Kalemama"	(Meher Baba's Mandali)
Kuppuswami
Lala Kamble
Ramchander Gaikwad
Sidhu Kamble
Rama, Sheela, and Mehernath Kalchuri
Shatrugna Kumar
Edward (Ned) and Dorothea (Dottie) Foote
Elizabeth Sacalis
Deirdre Eaton
Virginia Gloor Sadowsky
Donald Mahler
Viola Slayton Farber
Peter Saul
Mik & Uschi (Ursula Reinhart) Hamilton (met Baba in 1966 after traveling for years on the road)
Gulnar and Jehangu Sukhadwalla (Baba's niece and her husband)
Sam Cohen
Edith Bradbury (U.S.A.)
Fred Marks
Robert and Yvonne Antoni
Andreé Aron
Alfredo and Consuella de Sides
Bunty Kelly Bernstein
Bernice Ivory
Leatrice Shaw Johnston
Hoshang Bharucha
Cowas Vesuna
Phillipe Dupuis (New York)
Fred Frey (California)
John Ballantyne (Australia)
Ben Hayman (Texas)
Max Haefliger (Switzerland)
Frank S. Hendrick (Pacific Coast of U.S.A.)
Tom Sharpley
Dorothy and Tom Hopkinson (London, co-authored Much Silence)
Nana Kher (attendant at Meher Baba's Samadhi)
Madhusudan
Yeshwant Rao
Narendra and Sheila Thade
Bal Kishan Bakhshi and his wife, Meher Kanta (established Meher Dham centre in Dehra Dun)
Elcha Mistry
Jagannath N. Hellan (known generally as Hellan)
Was Deo Kain and his wife, Harjiwan Lal and family
Keki and Dhun Desai
Ader Ardeshir Desai
Dhun Satha (crippled with muscular dystrophy)
Trailokya Nath Dhar (Often named simply T. N. Dhar, Delhi)
P. H. Ganjoo		Delhi
Kishan Singh		Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Prakashwati Sharma	Mistress of Kishan Singh
Adi and Dolly Arjani		Karachi, Pakistan
Denis and Joan O'Brien		Australia
Meheru Damania (Eruch Jessawala's younger sister, cooked on Blue Bus travels 1938-39, died of cancer at age 32. Marriage to Savak Damania was arranged by Baba)
Burjor and Sheroo Chacha (Opened their home to Baba's companions in "The New Life" phase of Baba's life. Secretly took two photographs of Baba and the men begging in their white kafnis, green turbans and white canvas shoes.)
Enid Corfe (Italy)
Harish Chander Kochar (Lawyer)
Curshed Talati (Died in London at 21 of heart failure taking Baba's name. Ashes buried at Mehrabad)
Naval and Dina Talati (parents of Curshed and his sisters Jeroo and Perviz)
Naoroji and Bachamai Dadachanji and their children Tehemtan, Arnavaz, Nargis, Rhoda. and Soona. (Bombay family)
Rustom and Freny Dadachanji
Joseph Harb (California)
G. S. N. Moorty, his wife Saviti, and their baby that they brought to Baba		Calcutta
Stan and Clarice Adams and their children Noel, Cynthia and Colin	Cynthia made a trip of her own to India and met Baba again in 1964	Australia
Ena Lemmon		Australia
Elsie Smart		Australia
John and Joan Bruford and their son Bernard		Australia
Reg Paffle		Australia
Lorna and Robert Rouse		Australia
Oswald and Betty Hall		Australia
Bill and Joan Le Page and their children Michael, Jenny, and Ruthie (Australia)
Pophali Pleader (Lawyer and big Baba worker)
Sadashiv Patel
Shivnath Vibhuti Gademali (known as Vibhuti, very early long time disciple)
Vithal Bhokre
Madhusudan and Subhadra Bundellu	Married bhajan singers from Poona. Baba blessed and attended their wedding at Guruprasad
Matra Dutta Shastri		Hamirpur
Bachoobhai Jairam Soni	Bhajan singer	Navsari
Maharani Shantadevi	Maharani of Baroda, Owned a palace called Guruprasad in Pune that she frequently put at Baba's disposal and later became a close follower. Cut ribbon for Mehersthan center built by Kodury Krishna Rao in Kovvur.
Yogi Shuddhanand Bharati	Author of Meher Mahima. Seen in orange robes seated on the Dais near Baba in films of the 1962 East-West darshan
Kutumba Sastry Tadimeti (Baba nominated him as First Chairman of Trust - 'K'in "KDRM", a team babad jointly named)
Dhanapati Rao Naidu Tota	'D' in KDRM
Ranga Rao Yarremsetty	'R' in KDRM
Malllikarjuna Rao Chaganti	'M' in KDRM
Manikyal Rao -	Vijaywada-baba calls him 'Manik' - a Gem
Rammohan Rao Majeti	In first contact- baba identified him as his Host, without any one's introduction, at Vijayawada Railway station in 2nd Andhra tour
Raghavulu A.V	Now, President; Adhra Centre
Subba Rao Katta (Host at Eluru. Baba stayed and gave darshan at his farm during two Andhra tours)
Uschi (Ursula) & Mik Hamilton	Met Baba in 1966 at Meherazad	United States

This is an article about the term "perfect master" as used by Meher Baba.

Perfect Master is the English term that the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba used since 1926 to denote what he syncretized in his system with sadguru (Vedanta) and qutub (Sufism). A Perfect Master, according to Baba, is a God-realized person (one whose limited individualized consciousness has merged with God) who can use his Divine attributes of Infinite Power, Knowledge and Bliss for the spiritual upliftment of others. In describing Meher Baba's use of the term C. B. Purdom writes "The title ‘Perfect Master’...means one who has himself reached the goal to which he directs others: one who, pointing to God, has himself realized God."

States of God-realized souls

Meher Baba stated in his book God Speaks that when a spiritually advanced soul loses its consciousness as a separate being, it merges in God in one of three distinct states:

• The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and enjoys eternally His divine attributes of Infinite Power, Knowledge and Bliss, but remains completely unconscious of Creation.
• The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and retains consciousness of Creation but does not use His divine attributes in it.
• The soul becomes conscious of itself as God and uses His divine attributes for the spiritual advancement of othes.

Meher Baba calls people who are in the third state Perfect Masters or Mukammil. He distinguishes the second state from "Perfect Masters," calling them "Perfect Ones" or Kamil. One of the aspects that he says demarcates the Perfect Master from the Perfect One is that the Perfect Master has disciples, while the Perfect One does not. Also Baba says that a Perfect Master can make like himself any number of souls or even the whole of creation, while the Perfect One can only make one soul like himself. However, Meher Baba makes it clear in his system as outlined in God Speaks that the consciousness of these souls is absolutely One and the same. To explain this apparent contradiction he likens the difference between these two classifications of God realized souls to a difference in the 'office' of the God Realized person.

Meher Baba says that at all times on Earth there are fifty six incarnate God-realized souls, but that of these only five are deemed the five Perfect Masters of their era. When one of the five Perfect Masters 'drops' his physical body, Baba says, another God-realized soul among the 56 incarnate at that time replaces him by taking up that office in that moment. Thus, Meher Baba says there are fifty six God-realized souls on Earth at all times, but only and exactly five hold the office of Perfect Master.

In addition, Baba says there is one very rare type of God-realized person who has no disciples but who has duties included in his office. These he says are called Most Perfect Ones or Akmal.

The Five Perfect Masters

Meher Baba is unique among Indian teachers in that he said that the number of perfect masters on the Earth is exactly five at all times. He said further that at the time of his own God-realization the five perfect masters were Sai Baba of Shirdi, Upasni Maharaj, Hazrat Babajan, Hazrat Tajuddin Baba and Narayan Maharaj and that these five brought him down to human consciousness as that avatar on Earth in this cycle of time. "During the Avataric period, the five Perfect Masters make God incarnate as man." He also said, "What I am, what I was, and what I will be as the Ancient One is always due to the five Perfect Masters of the Age. Sai Baba, Upasni Maharaj, Babajan, Tajuddin Baba and Narayan Maharaj - these are the five Perfect Masters of this age for me." All of these have since died and Meher Baba did not say who their replacements were, except to indicate that for the time being they will incarnate in the East.

Meher Baba also said on more than one occassion that while there are numerous planets in the Universe with human life on them, Earth is the only planet where God realization is possible and where the five perfect masters take birth.

The Avatar

Meher Baba asserts that beyond the five Perfect Masters of the age, (distinguished as those God-realized souls which fulfill the office of Perfect Master temporarily until they drop their physical bodies), there is also the Avatar. "The number of God-Realized souls on earth is eternally fixed at fifty-six and is never altered, except during Avataric ages when God directly descends as a man." The Avatar, according to Meher Baba, is a special Perfect Master who was the original Perfect Master, or the Ancient One, who never ceases to incarnate in spite of his original attainment of God-realization. Baba says that this particular soul personifies the state of God which in Hinduism is called Vishnu and in Sufism is called Parvardigar, i.e. the sustainer or preserver state of God. In Baba's system he syncretizes the concept of Avatar with terms from numerous diverse traditions, e.g. The Rasool, The Messiah, The Christ, The Maitreya, The Savior, The Redeemer, etc. According to Meher Baba the Avatar appears on Earth every 700-1400 years, and is 'brought down' into human form by the five Perfect Masters of that age to aid in the process of moving creation in its never ending journey toward Godhood. He said that in other ages this role was fulfilled by Zoroaster, Rama, Krishna, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, and lastly by Muhammad. "Of the most recognized and much worshiped manifestations of God as Avatar, that of Zarathustra is the earliest – having been before Ram, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad."

See also

• Satguru
• Jivanmukta
• Qutub (Sufism)

External links

• Meher Baba on Perfect Masters
• Photos of Meher Baba's five Perfect Masters