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Our 2018 Spring Sahavas guests are Jenny and Ross Keating.

Spring Sahavas 2018
Memorial Day Weekend,   May 25th-28th

About our guests:
​JENNY KEATING (nee Le Page) first met Meher Baba in 1956 at Meher House in Sydney when she was two years old; then again in 1958 at Avatar's Abode; and in 1962 in India at the East-West Gathering. She grew up in Meher House and knew the mandali, especially Mehera, Mani and Eruch as family. Francis was also like an uncle, living with the family off and on until his departure for India in 1959. From there he sent a lot of his early songs to Jenny's mum Joan and along with Jenny's sister Maree they were the first to learn them. A tape recording of Jenny singing along with Maree was heard by Baba in 1967 and again in 1968. Jenny now lives next door to Meher House with Ross and cares for the flower gardens around Meher House. She also oversees the preservation and documentation of her father, Bill Le Page's archives. Jenny is a columnist for "All (Baba) Things Considered", the online series by Sheriar Books. Click here to read her Articles.

ROSS KEATING heard of Meher Baba in 1969 and travelled to India throughout the 70's and 80's and got to know the mandali and hear firsthand of their life with Baba. He was also one of a small group who spent weekends with Francis Brabazon at Avatar's Abode during the 70's. He completed a doctorate on Francis's life and poetry which was later published, Francis Brabazon Poet of the Silent Word: a Modern Hafiz (2002). He has also published a book of poems, A First Act (2015) and a fictional work Reading Stay With God (2017). In 1978 he married Jenny Le Page and they have two daughters, Roshan and Nadya. Both Ross and Jenny are singer songwriters and are planning to release a CD of their original songs.

Study Course 2018
with Ward Parks, September 15th-23rd
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Meher Baba's Early Working  with His Inner Circle of Close Male Disciples​

Just released in 2017 after twenty years of editorial preparation, Tiffin Lectures occupies a unique position in the literature of this Avataric advent. Unlike Discourses, God Speaks, and other books of Baba's authorship, which were composed by Him with the greater humanity in prospect as their audience, these early talks from 1926 and 1927 were addressed and intended specifically as part of the spiritual education of His earlier men disciples. Recorded in note form by Framroze Dadachanji, Meher Baba's secretary and close disciple, and compiled and edited under the auspices of the Avatar Meher Baba Trust, Tiffin Lectures gives us today the opportunity to become "flies on the wall" in early  Meherabad, sitting in on these intimate sessions in one of the foundational phases of the Avatar's work.

​More than any of the previous six Meherana study programs, the 2018 edition will devote itself to close readings of the words of Baba's talks. The fifty-two talks in Tiffin Lectures, delivered by Baba mostly at Meherabad between 29th April 1926 and 30th August 1927, will very much comprise our focal text. At the same time, following up on our study of Meher Baba's "darshana" in the 2017 program, we will bring in other messages and discourses from later years when and as they bear on what Baba was explaining to these young men at Meherabad. The new esoteric information that Baba gave on the structure of the Sadguru's circle, for example, will be related to the discourses on that subject that He gave in the 1940s. Baba's illuminations on the original significance of some of the central Zoroastrian and Hindu and Muslim rituals, or His warnings about the dangers of fourth plane, or anecdotes illustrating the ways of the Sadguru, will be brought into relation with these topics and Baba discussed them over the decades following.
2018 New Life Sahavas —a special time dedicated to pleasing Beloved Baba.

 New Life Sahavas 2018
October 5th- 7th​

Our New Life Sahavas theme is “Entertaining Baba.” All are welcome to come dance, and sing and anything to make Baba smile. Look for more details to come.

2017 Spring Sahavas

2016 New Life Sahavas

2016 Spring Sahavas

2015 New Life Sahavas

Please check our calendar for additional activities such as work weekends, reading and discussion groups, visiting guests, and business meetings.