Peter Nordeen - Miracles and the law of Karma / Begin the Beguine - Feb 23, 2025, live on Baba Zoom

Peter gave a Birthday message. He focused first on miracles. Though Beloved Baba never gave great significance to miracles, Peter discusses one major miraculous event that occurs every 700 to 1400 years, the birth of the Avatar. Then Peter explores the meaning of Baba's favorite song, "Begin the Beguine" through the lens of the Avatar taking birth once again, being called to duty by the five perfect masters of the Age.

Hosted by Diana Goodheart in NC

Sue Chapman's Poem:
Beloved’s Birthday (written Feb 8, 2021)

While the world continues to pray in churches, synagogues, and mosques
Performing pujas and rituals in temples, yearning for Your presence,
Imploring Your return as Ram, as Krishna, as Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed
You have already come, so very quietly….

Without fanfare of trumpets, or the sight of archangels or chariots in the sky,
You came in such an ordinary guise, as a brother, as a son, as friend.
You rode your bike around your neighbourhood, attended to your studies, played cricket,
Living in a modest town that did not know the jewel in its midst.

But the Masters of the Age knew You in an instant, recognised your Glory
Acknowledged your descent as Man,
And nurtured the agonising birthing of Your Divinity
In ways even your own mother, for so long, could not.

Answering the longing in our hearts you came, so very quietly
That almost the entire world failed to notice!
You scattered the seeds of your love in countless barren hearts
And stepped away like a trusting gardener, knowing their inevitable flourishing.

Your disguises were the flimsiest of foils,
A beret here, a fez there, a double-breasted suit, brogue shoes.
They might have turned their heads and wondered – who is that?
They might have known your glory, but most passed by unseeing,
And your silence could never cause offence.

Amidst the wildest mysteries of our most gorgeous planet earth
With all its myriad creatures and life forms,
However did it come to pass, that I, you, we are the few
Who, having caught the fragrance of your love on the wind
On this avenue or that, knew, just knew
We must track the source above all else?

And as extraordinary, having found the source
And realised it to be Truth, Beauty, Love Divine
The pinnacle of man’s desire, the goal, the glorious final resting place,
Discovered it was a gift we could not freely share,
And found, with pain, it could be rejected and reviled.

How can we adequately express gratitude to the One
Who, inhabiting eternal knowledge, power and bliss,
Surrendered unto the entrapment of a mere human form
Only to bear innumerable assaults and privations?
What mercy did the world provide, aside of One Supreme Woman,
And a small band of willing slaves?

There is no acknowledgment we few can express,
No Birthday Cake grand enough, no song sweet enough
No words to convey the depth of our thankfulness.

And so we stumble blindly on, surrendering what we can,
Regretting what we can’t, and hoping above all hope
That one day, one day, we will see you as you really are,
And ‘Happy Birthday Baba’ will become every day
You are reborn in me, and I am reborn in You!


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