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Our 2018 Spring Sahavas guests were Jenny and Ross Keating.

Spring Sahavas 2019
Memorial Day Weekend,   May 24th-27th

Guests and activities for the next Spring Sahavas are in the planning stages. We'll announce more at a later date.
Please check our calendar for additional activities such as work weekends, reading and discussion groups, visiting guests, and business meetings.

2018 Spring Sahavas

2017 Spring Sahavas

2016 New Life Sahavas

2016 Spring Sahavas

2015 New Life Sahavas

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​

Meher Baba  often asked of the people near Him for entertainment such as skits, games, stories, jokes, or programs of music and dance. It was a delightful diversion for all. Baba said that these moments helped in His Universal Work or lightened His suffering. Not only was it an important tool of Baba’s work, but an opportunity for His lovers to offer a joyous gift to the Beloved.

Join us in entertaining Baba at the New Life Sahavas with a variety of special performances and activities (expect some surprises!) featuring:
  • DEBORAH ASH & FRIENDS, present a concert of inspirational soul music
  • BUCK BUSFIELD & FRIENDS, members of the B Street Theatre in Sacramento
  • A FULLY DOG-REALIZED BEING, Swami Dog, will give darshan (and fleas) as he shares canine wisdom and poetry. Presented by Brian Narell
  • MEHERANA NEW LIFE COMMUNITY CHOIR with Raine Eastman-Gannett. All are welcome to participate in the joy of singing for the Beloved!
  • MANI'S TALES of ENTERTAINING BABA, a short play by Alisa Genovese & friends
  • BOLLYWOOD dance by Rabia Foreman & friends
  • MUSIC by AMINTA DUNN singer, songwriter
  • MORE MUSIC, COMEDY, DANCE, POETRY