Meher
Baba traveled to the West thirteen times, and six times to the United
States. In Love Personified, the photographic account of Meher
Baba’s life, one can see a profound record of how he made everyone
who hosted him feel at home in his presence as he traveled, sowing seeds
of love in hearts throughout the world. In 1952, 1956, and again during
his last visit to the United States, in 1958, he and his mandali stayed
at the Meher Spiritual Center in Myrtle Beach. He called this his home
in the West, and said, “I never leave.” It was during his
visit in 1952 that he had the first of two severe automobile accidents,
the other one four years later in India. He explained that these two
accidents, one shattering the left side of his body, the other the right
side, were a modern-day equivalent of Christ’s crucifixion, and
that this gross exchange in his own body would result in the East and
West finally being united and "benefit to the whole world."
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