Your support is needed!
Donations to support the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust in India may be sent to Bob Ochtrup's attention and will be included in our grant to the AMBPPCT in Ahmednagar India. Besides sharing Meher Baba's message, Trust activities include:
• Meher Health Centre
• Pilgrim Centre Dispensary
• The Meher Hospital
• Laboratories
• Veterinary Aid Centre
• The Meher English School
• Physical Eduation Centre
• Spiritual Academy
The Meher Baba Center of The Twin Cities is qualified 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization in the State of Minnesota. Please send check payable to MBCTC, and note that it is for the AMBPPCT. Mail to:
Bob Ochrup
4300 W. River Parkway #141
Minneapolis, MN 55406
NEWS
Bhau wishes the following circular to be disseminated far and wide to Baba lovers everywhere. (Please note that donations to the Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly" should be sent directly to Bhau. Other AMBPPCT donations can be sent to Bob Ochtrup at the address above.)
Shri V. S. Kalchuri (Bhau)
CHAIRMAN
Date: 16th September 2006
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR DONORS
Dearest Baba Family,
Jai Baba!
The response of Beloved Baba's lovers around the world to the Trust's Development Plan which includes purchasing important lands around Meherabad and Meherazad is much appreciated by the Board of Trustees of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust. And we know that you will continue to help His Cause in this way. Because of your care and concern Beloved Baba's wishes as stated in the Trust Deed are being fulfilled.
However we need to inform you all dear ones that apart from helping Beloved Baba's Cause in this way, the Beneficiaries of Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly" need to maintain their livelihood which Beloved Baba made provision for through the Trust Deed. Now and again we have drawn your attention that donations for the Beneficiaries were low, and then you would help the Beneficiaries by sending donations to Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly." But this year such a negligible amount of donations have been received that we are unable to make the regular disbursement to them in September.
Therefore to help solve this problem that comes up now and again, we suggest that whatever you previously sent as smaller general (not Corpus) donations to Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust that you now please send these donations to: Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly". By doing this we feel sufficient funds will be donated to Avatar Meher Baba Trust Firstly to see to the Beneficiaries.
And concerning donations for Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust you may send only the larger donations either specifically for Corpus or for its Development Plan as you have been doing.
At present about 92% of what is donated to Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly" is utilized by Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust. This 92% is the share of the Beneficiaries who have passed away and it is automatically utilized for Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust according to the Trust Deed. Only the remaining 8% of donations to Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly" can be distributed to the surviving four Beneficiaries according to the percentages dictated by Beloved Baba in the Trust Deed.
Therefore, by donating to Avatar Meher Baba Trust "Firstly" you dear ones will be serving at the same time the needs of Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust and the Beneficiaries named by Beloved Baba.
How blessed you are Beloved Baba's dear ones that through your donations you are selflessly serving His Cause. There are only a few in the world that can understand and feel the importance of selfless service. No doubt many perform social service. But there is a vast difference between social service and selfless service. Social service can help others but you collect the good impressions of those whom you serve. Social service may take you to heaven but you have to come back again so you remain bound because both good and bad impressions are binding. While in selfless service you lessen the previous impressions collected by you and you are have a direct way to paradise. In selfless service you have to lose your self, that is your false self in service to God through love, honesty and sincerity which makes your false self weaker. In selfless service you serve through love and so you even forget that you have served because you never had time to think about your false self be cause love keeps the false self quiet. How fortunate and blessed you are. And because of your blessedness we do not hesitate to salute your love 1008 times.
Please share this new information with all Baba Lovers especially with Trustwallas and Group Heads
In Baba's Love and Service
V.S.Kalchuri
CHAIRMAN
Ps. All donations to the Trust should be addressed to:
The Chairman
Avatar Meher Baba Trust
P.O. Bag No. 31
King's Road,
Ahmednagar, MS, India 414 001
Along with the donation cheque, the donor's letter should include the donor's name and address, the amount of the donation, and the name of the Trust, Avatar Meher Baba Trust Firstly (or for the larger donations as you have specifically been doing, Avatar Meher Baba PPC Trust for Corpus or Development Plan).
And, your support is needed locally as well!
The MBCTC relies in part on your membership support to sustain our activities throughout the year and to make possible scholarships to support participation for any of us who may be invited to experience a "temporary" taste of the New Life.
Please send membership dues of $15 along with any additional charitable gift (payable to MBCTC) to:
Bob Ochrup
363 Lexington Parkway S
St. Paul, MN 55105
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