' Self-Interest '...

"Self-interest, caused by low selfish desire, is the root cause of contemporary world chaos and individual misery.

"My manifestation will embrace the economic, social and religious aspects of life. It will spiritualize all human activities in art, science, music, politics and drama. In the near future a great universal drama will be enacted, the theme of which will be pure love, selfless service. I will play the leading part in this world-awakening drama.

"The unfoldment of life and consciousness for the whole Avataric cycle, which has been mapped out in the creative world before the Avatar took form, is endorsed and fixed in the formative and material worlds during the Avatar's life on earth."



-Meher Baba
in Treasures from the Meher Baba Journals
Compiled & Edited by Jane Barry Haynes
Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press, 1980, p. 73