Introduction

This extensive collection originates from Mehera's firsthand narrative gathered from over 200 hours of tape recordings made by David Fenster, from the years 1974 to 1982. These recordings feature Mehera, Mehera J. Irani, Avatar Meher Baba's foremost woman disciple, and several men and women mandali members. The recordings were made primarily at Meherazad, Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra, India. 


This extensive collection originates from Mehera's firsthand narrative gathered from over 200 hours of tape recordings made by David Fenster, from the years 1974 to 1982. These recordings feature Mehera, Mehera J. Irani, Avatar Meher Baba's foremost woman disciple, and several men and women mandali members. The recordings were made primarily at Meherazad, Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra, India. 

and pressed my cheek against his for quite a few seconds. Baba just sat there. I looked up in his eyes. He looked straight at me with such a tender, loving look in his eyes. There was a very sweet and tender expression in his eyes. It was very beautiful. Sometimes, when you felt that way, you wanted to kiss and embrace Baba. I still remember that. It has remained in my mind all this time.”

–– Mehera S. Irani, from Mehera-Meher

Notes: TRANSCRIPTS TBD

To access written transcriptions for each talk in pdf format, go to the Transcript column and click on the word “TEXT” to the right of each talk’s Contents information. If you don’t have a pdf reader already installed, you can download it here. Please also note that dates are displayed in conventional U.S.A. format, e.g. month-day-year. For example, 09-01-78 = September 1, 1978. Running time of talks is displayed in “hours:minutes:seconds format, for example: 01:30:42 = one hour, thirty minutes, forty-two seconds. Individual talks in the COLLECTION can be downloaded as mp3s by clicking the “Download” button displayed in the Audio file column.


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Content

Text

DF-144B: Margaret Craske
About Mehera (cont.)

TEXT

DF-145A: Margaret Craske
Baba’s spine; About Mehera (cont.)

TEXT

DF-145B: Margaret Craske; Gisella Haefliger
Margaret: (cont), Mehera vs. Jean Adriel
Gisella:

TEXT

DF-146A: Gisella Haefliger; Max Haefliger
Gisella: (cont.) About Mehera
Max:

TEXT

DF-146B: Max Haefliger; Irene Billo
Max: (cont.)
Irene:

TEXT

DF-147A: Irene Billo

TEXT

DF-147B: Irene Billo
Her father; Girnar; Sai Bala; New Life

TEXT

DF-148A: Irene Billo
Irene reading letters

TEXT

DF-148B: Irene Billo
Irene
: Reading letters
David: reading letters

TEXT

 

DF-149A: David Fenster
David: Reading letters

TEXT

DF-148iB2: David Fenster
David: Reading letters

TEXT

DF-149B-1: Mehera J. Irani
Her father; Girnar; Sat Bala; New Life

TEXT

DF-149B-2: Mehera J. Irani
Her father; Girnar; Sat Bala; New Life

TEXT

 
 
 

DF-150A: Khorshed Irani; Mehera J. Irani

TEXT

DF-150B: Mehera J. Irani; Bhau Kalchuri
Mehera:
Bhau:

TEXT

DF-151A: Bhau Kalchuri; Tom & Dorothy Hopkinson; Ken & Alice Lawton:
Bhau:
Tom & Dorothy:
Ken & Alice:

TEXT

DF-151B: Tom & Dorothy Hopkinson
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-152A: Unknown speaker

TEXT

DF-152B: Unknown speaker

TEXT

DF-153A: Unknown speaker; Darwin Shaw
Unknown:
Darwin:

TEXT

DF-153B: Darwin Shaw

TEXT

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DF-154A: Darwin Shaw; Agnes Baron; Bill LePage; Henry Kashouty
Darwin:
Agnes:
Bill:
Henry:

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DF-154B: Henry Kashouty
(cont.)

TEXT

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DF-155A: Henry Kashouty
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-155B; Henry Kashouty
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-156A: Jane Haynes
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-156A: Jane Haynes
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-157-1: Jane Haynes
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-158B Jane Haynes
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-158A (2-3519-A): Jane Haynes
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-158B (2-3519-2): William James Pitts

TEXT

DF-159A (2-3508):
•William James Pitts
(cont.)
John Haynes (start: 21:15; 1 of 4)

TEXT

DF-159B: John B. Haynes
(cont.) 2 of 4

TEXT

DF-160A: John B. Haynes
(cont.) 3 of 4

TEXT

DF-160B: John B. Haynes
(cont.) 4 of 4

TEXT

DF-161A: Alain Youell

TEXT

DF-162B: Alain Youell; Judith Garbett
Alain:
Judith:

TEXT

DF-162A: Darwin Shaw

TEXT

DF-162B: Darwin Shaw
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-163A: Bhau Kalchuri

TEXT

DF-163B: Bhau Kalchuri
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-164A: Mehera J. Irani; Mani S. Irani; Eruch B. Jessawala
Mehera:
Mani:
Eruch:

TEXT

DF-164B: Mehera J. Irani; Mani S. Irani; Eruch B. Jessawala
Mehera:
Mani:
Eruch:

TEXT

DF-165A: Mehera J. Irani; Mani S. Irani; Eruch B. Jessawala
Mehera:
Mani:
Eruch:

TEXT

DF-165B: Eruch B. Jessawala
Talks about the accident

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

DF-166A: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mani S. Irani
Bhau & oranges

TEXT

DF-166B: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mani S. Irani
Bhau & oranges (cont.)

TEXT

DF-167A: Mehera J. Irani
Meeting Alu Kambatta first time in 1938

TEXT

DF-167B: Mehera J. Irani
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-168A: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mani S. Irani
Eruch
: Speaks on Alu killing Peter.
Bill:

TEXT

DF-168B: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mani S. Irani; Bill LePage
Eruch & Mani:
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-169A: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-169B: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

 

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

DF-XXXA: Peter Saul

TEXT

DF-XXXB: Peter Saul

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

DF-XXXA: Dr. Goher Irani; Mehera J. Irani
Goher:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-XXXB: Dr. Goher Irani; Mehera J. Irani
Goher:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-XXXA: Padri (Faredoon Navroji Driver)

TEXT

DF-XXXB: Padri (Faredoon Navroji Driver)

TEXT

DFXXXA: Molly

TEXT

DF-XXXA: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mehera J. Irani
Eruch:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-XXXB: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mehera J. Irani
Eruch:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-XXXA-1: Eruch B. Jessawala

TEXT

DF-XXXA-2: Eruch B. Jessawala

TEXT

DF-XXXB-1: Eruch B. Jessawala

TEXT

DF-XXXB-2: Eruch B. Jessawala

TEXT

DF-XXX: Cynthia Adams

TEXT

DF-XXXA: Wendy Haynes

TEXT

DF-XXXB: Wendy Haynes

TEXT

DF-177A: Mani S. Irani; Irene Billo; Mehera J. Irani
Mani:
Irene:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-177B: Mani S. Irani; Irene Billo; Mehera J. Irani
Mani:
Irene:
Mehera:

TEXT

DF-178A: Mani S. Irani
(cont.)
Waves of purity coming off Meher Baba as she read to him.

TEXT

DF-178B: Mani S. Irani
(cont.)

TEXT

 

DF-179A: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-179B: Bernard Bruford

TEXT

TEXT

DF-180A: Bernard Bruford; Ramakrishnan*
Bernard:
(cont.)
David: Reads correspondence 1959-61 of Ramakrishnan, Poona Center

DF-180B: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-181A: Cynthia Borg; Mani S. Irani
Cynthia:
Speaks about Mehera
Mani:

TEXT

DF-181B: Eruch B. Jessawala; Mani S. Irani
Eruch:
On the women; rivalry
Mani:

TEXT

DF-182A: Mani S. Irani
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-182B: Anita Vieillard
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-182-B2: Anita Vieillard
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-183A: Anita Vieillard
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-183B: Anita Vieillard; Mani S. Irani
Anita:
Mani:
Speaking about Mehera

TEXT

DF-184A: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-184B: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-185A: Mani S. Irani
(cont.)

TEXT

DF-186A: Mani S. Irani; Bill LePage
Mani
: (cont.)
Bill
:

TEXT

DF-186B: Mani S. Irani
(cont.- copy of John’s recording, Meher Lahar)

TEXT

DF-187A: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

DF-187B: Mani S. Irani

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

 

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

File number, Title, Speaker(s)
Location(s) and Date(s) ––TBA

TEXT

 

DF-188A:
Amman’s tape to parents

TEXT

DF-188B:
Amman’s tape to parents

TEXT

DF-170A: Mehera J. Irani

TEXT

DF-170B: Mehera J. Irani

TEXT

DF-171A: Mehera J. Irani

TEXT

DF-171B: Irwin Luck

TEXT

DF-172A: Tex Hightower

TEXT

DF-173A: Tex Hightower

TEXT

DF-173A: Tex Hightower; Phyllis Ott
Tex:
Phyllis:

TEXT

DF-174A: Phyllis Ott

TEXT

DF-175A: Liz Sacalis

TEXT

DF-175B: Dedee Gloor; Irene Billo
Dedee:
Irene:

TEXT

DF-176A: Mani J. Irani

TEXT

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