Hurray, Meher Baba Center of Northern California drew a line in the pharaonic sand! At a meeting last night of the board of directors and interested membership, the board passed a motion to address the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust, based in India, that it would host its own venue, separate from Sufism Reoriented of Walnut Creek, for a presentation of the Trust’s long range infrastructure plan.
This fracas was occasioned by Merwan Dubash, a trustee of AMBPPCT and Daniel Stone, the leader of this focus group and president of the Meher Center, insisting that there be one venue because “the Baba world is one family”. MBCNC was compelled to remind AMBPPCT that this is not the case, and for excellent reasons.
Evidently, only MBCNC insists that Meher Baba’s “Last Warning” and Eruch’s “Bell of Warning” of 1980 are still in effect. It’s as if the Trust, in honor of the great and late chairman of “Jai Ho” infamy, Bhau Kalchuri, has decided for fund raising purposes that money is more important than the master’s command that no golden calf distract his devotees.
MBCNC acknowledges that there are pyramids to be built and idols to be cherished- but that it will have nothing to do with it. We have a covenant to keep.
MBCNC awaits the Trust’s response.
Congratulations. We eagerly anticipate the response. I trust you will let us know, Darvish?
Yes.
Great. The group has spoken. Now it is time for the group to take back control from those who consider the group their own personal kingdom.
Is there a video available or transcript of the meeting?
I think it is important to put as much of this out there as possible
so that everyone in the baba world knows the facts.
As Clive has said as time goes on and more new people come along
much of this will be forgotten.
The minutes of every board meeting are typed up and sent out as an email. The recent meeting was not recorded, to my knowledge. There were about 20-25 present.