Now he tells us!
Today’s e-mail from The Glow International Magazine describes this feature of the Spring 2012 issue of the magazine, soon to be available to subscribers: “Meher Baba Never Broke His Silence: In a Glow International exclusive, Bhau Kalchuri clarifies his earlier remarks about Meher Baba’s silence. “The words ‘Yaad Rakh’ were expressed in gestures.”
Bhauji’s original claim is described here. He specifically said:
“At 11:00 pm. [30th January 1969] He [Baba] used the Hindi words, ‘Yad Rakh.’ The phrase was audible only once, and it was at 11:00 pm.”
So now Bhau is saying that the words were not audible but were expressed in gestures? Is the Glow‘s exclusive journalistic scoop a “clarification” — or is it not a retraction of Bhau’s report that Meher Baba physically spoke the words Yad Rakh (“Remember this”) the day before dropping His body?
The Glow has us where it wants us: waiting at the mailbox or subscribing. But where is it that Bhau has us with this trickster-like announcement? We must delay judgment until the big scoop is received.
Baba is the Avatar think how many times he changed his plans, his mind, his instruction. But I don’t recall him ever expressing things and taking them back. At times out of anger he ordered someone to do things and then said he was wrong to do this or that. I think it is very healthy to have someone pull the rug out from under us. As the author mentions we don’t know the content of the article till we read it. I suppose at that time under the extreme pressure the mandali were under; no sleep; dying Baba, etc. the day before he expired- being sure of what he did might have been a tough thing to get right.