DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

PLANETS  &  STARS

23 April, 1924

That night, after dinner when all were sitting around Baba, Ramjoo asked him, "What are the stars?"

The Master explained:

Stars, like planets, are spheres; but many of the planets are inhabited by human beings. They resemble the earth in culture, science and in every way materially, but from the spiritual point of view, our earth is the most advanced, for the Perfect Masters are born on this planet.

These other planets seem far off from one another but, in reality, they are close. After Realization a man finds them issuing from himself in the millions — like tiny bubbles. He finds himself to be the source of everything — the Maker of all! Although the gross spheres of the universes are different, the spiritual planes from beginning to end are one.

In later years, Baba explained that there exist in the physical cosmos 18,000 planets with human life forms, and millions of planets with evolutionary life forms, along with millions and millions of universes which are in a state of cosmic evolution. But he clarified that earth is the only planet where the process of involution occurs — that only on earth do human beings experience the planes of spiritual consciousness. And he further explained that not only were the five Perfect Masters on earth, but also the entire 7,000-member spiritual hierarchy of saints and advanced souls.

For an explanation of Meher Baba's cosmology refer to God Speaks, pg. 244 and 271–274.

Lord Meher On-line page 504-5

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