' Enlightenment '...

"On May 14th, (1926) Meher Baba revealed to the mandali [circle of disciples]:

'Before the veil was torn asunder and I became God conscious, I experienced the greatest electric-like shock that created for some time severe vibrations, which are indescribable.

This was followed by intense darkness and finally there was Light.

The greatest imagination fails to conceive of the idea of this Effulgence, before which the light of the worldly sun is like a shadow of a drop of the infinite ocean of dazzling Light.

Similarly, the darkness I experienced when I had my Realization cannot be described.

'The world experiences light and darkness, but what I am explaining bears no similarity to these.

Very few persons can see the Real Darkness and the Real Light.'"



-Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba
Myrtle Beach, SC: MANifetation, 1st edition, 1988, Vol. 3, p. 794
Revised Online Edition, p.652