The Path of Love Paperback – November 1, 2000

Avatar Meher Baba's mission is all about spreading the purest form of spiritual love, this book is simply an expression of what He is all about - pure and simple. I pray every day that Baba will help me remove the obstacles in my mind and heart lust, greed and anger that prevent me from continuously experiencing this divine love. "For those who have eyes let them see. For those who have ears let them hear." “You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free”. Avatar Jesus Christ

I love this book so very much. It is full of small but shining diamonds of wisdom. Meher Baba had deep insights into the whole creation of the universe and makes that wisdom available to us. Thank you so very much.

Wonderful read; as are all Meher baba books.

This is a fabulous read if you want to learn anything about either love or the spiritual path. Get It!

It was my second trip to India, the year was 1978. I had arranged to stay in a small private guest house on the property of an American lawyer. I am a very private person, and of late have become almost reclusive beyond approach at times. This guest house where I was going to stay, and arranged months in advance, I found out would not be available until the following day, but I was offered a cot to sleep in ... in the hallway of the main house where there was a lot of noise and traffic; people would literally pass right by my bed. This cot -- and me being on public display as it were -- was about as opposite to my nature as I could endure for a night; but I thought, it is only for one night. Something extraordinary though happened that early morning, extraordinary: About three in the morning I awoke; I was sitting up in bed, I was not dreaming -- the roof of the house was not there. In the distance I could see a remarkably beautiful star, it may have only been a couple of miles away, and thus appeared very large. I was fascinated by the splendor of this luminous sphere, enchanted; who would not be under the circumstances described. My fascination all of a sudden increased many fold when this star started coming toward me. At one point it seemed a few hundred yards away, and my experince then was: that even if an atheist was to be witnessing what I was there is no doubt whatsoever they too would say, I AM LOOKING AT GOD. This experience started to become so overwhelming that I began to feel -- this Immaculate Light will never and could ever now leave me. I thought I will just start to lose my mind staring at this; for I do not know how such TRUTH can not always now be visible to me. Then the impossible began to happen, at least that is what I felt -- "God" started to recede from its "closeness" to me. This "Sun" began to move back. But then it stopped. And then some different awareness came into play which was. I now saw this Light above a tomb. A shrine I had come to visit, and seeing this Effulgence in some kind of relation to form gave me some equilibrium. But then again the impossible was staged: This Light that I thought was really incapable of having any kind of personal identity, or "name" or even form besides its Magnificently Sovereign Radiance then descended into this tomb I had come to visit. And this divine Thing/Being I was calling God took on a name and took on a form. And that form and name was -- Meher Baba.I have been chipping away at this God thing -- and Meher Baba thing -- for over 40 years now. I know who he says he is: The Christ, the Buddha, the Prophet come again. How objective could I be about all that after spending some six years living in India. Probably not too. And I very much do lean to not disbelieving that one day history will support Meher Baba's claim. I did, by the way, not move into the guest house the next day; I just stayed on that cot for nearly three months after that experience. I just thought I had to to honor such a profound happening, if I really believed in it, as I did, and do.If there is a God, a real God with infinite power, then it is possible for God to do anything, ANYTHING. God could then descend into a human body and live amongst us ... for God's own "reasons," maybe HE/SHE/IT just wants to polish up our dance floor every few centuries, and help us to laugh -- and love more. To me that is what happened with Jesus and Buddha and Mohammad, Krishna, Rama and Zoraster; they just --basically -- showed up one day to be amongst us, to be our companions & friends, and to reveal to us our own sacred potential, destiny. And of course they were a GIANT HIT, or at least now are. Oldies but Goldies; I couldn't resist saying that.What the hell do we really know about anything, anyway? We got peanut brains. Everyone is really just guessing, especially about God. How many eyes reflect any knowledge of this wonderland where we move, even as crazy as all gets. Existence is a stunning knockout when we begin to see.Daniel Ladinskybest selling Penguin author

To Neal Pollock ,Please read the book "god speaks" by meher baba which is far more elaborate and covers much more holistically the whole philosophy .I will guarantee you it will be one of the best books you would have read.Also it brings lot more love and peace into ones own personal life .

This small book is primarily about Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of love & devotion though it also speaks briefly about Karma Yoga, the yoga of action. It seems more Feeler oriented than Vivekananda's book on Bhakti Yoga. While the author refers to several other religions (esp. Sufism), the book appears more Hinduism oriented to me. It has some truth & wisdom but mostly of a common variety (platitudes galore) available in many other works including New Age books. However, the author says he is God (see p. 21 diagram), "the ancient one" & has "divine authority:" pp. 109-110: "Baba is the Avatar of the Age & the greatest work anyone can do is to love Baba as Baba ought to be loved. He alone who can love Baba does Baba's work." He clearly states on p. 30 that he is not a yogi, saint, etc. & criticizes p. 87: "opiumized" saints. I think Namkhai Norbu's "The Supreme Source" is a better description of the nature of God, such as it can be described, but of course as a Buddhist work it's not anthropomorphic as are Hinduism books.Some of this book is devoted to occult matters such as the stated differences (a chart is provided on pp. 72-3) between auras & halos. The author uses numerous unfamiliar foreign terms--but no Glossary or Index is provided. Some of the assertions seem nonsensical to me; his argument p. 10: "omnipresence means omnipotence & omniscience" is scientifically invalid. His statement that, p. 64: "No harm can come where there is no thought of any harm," brings to mind the road to hell. He doesn't directly address free will, but it seems to be lacking in his philosophy. Indeed, some of his comments seem obsessive or neurotic. I cannot determine from this one book (the only one of Meher Baba's I've read) whether he was a legitimate teacher or a charlatan (or maybe a jokester?), but I am not impressed with this book.