Religion:You Alone Exist
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You Alone Exist is a prayer poem describing the unlimited attributes of God. Dictated by Meher Baba during 1959-1962 to his close disciple Bhau Kalchuri, the prayer-poem expressively describes the all-pervading nature of God through many attributes, from simple to sublime.[1]
Text
The full text of the poem was written by Bhau Kalchuri under direction of Avatar Meher Baba.[2][3][4][5]
Music video
A 2005 collage film was directed and produced by Peter Nordeen with music composed and sung by Jim Meyer.[6][7][8] The stock footage is compiled and edited together from Meher Baba Newsreel Footage (1932), Three Incredible Weeks (1954), Meherabad (1955), Meher Baba's USA Tour (1956/1958), Pune-Meherabad (1960), East-West Gathering (1962) by Robert Fredericks in tandem to the rhythm of the musical prayer.[9]
References
- ↑ "You Alone Exist by Meher Baba, composed by Jim Meyer". https://meherbababooks.com/products/you-alone-exist-dvd-by-meher-baba-composed-by-jim-meyer.
- ↑ B.K.Pandey (2008). Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophers, You Alone Exist composition by Meher Baba and Bhau Kalchuri, Pg 167-180. Anmol Publications. ISBN 978-81-261-3524-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=NcVOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22You+Alone+Exist%22+-+meher+baba+google+books.
- ↑ "The Nothing and the Everything, You Alone Exist composition by Bhau Kalchuri, dictated by Meher Baba, Pg 17". https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/NandE.pdf.
- ↑ "Listen Humanity – "You Alone Exist" poem". https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ListenHumanity.pdf.
- ↑ "The Nothing and the Everything, You Alone Exist composition by Bhau Kalchuri, dictated by Meher Baba, Pg 18". https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/NandE.pdf.
- ↑ ""You Alone Exist" by Meher Filmworks". https://www.meherfilmworks.org/youaloneexist/home.html.
- ↑ "You Alone Exist". https://www.mehercenter.org/online-programing/you-alone-exist/.
- ↑ "Amartithi 2024, screening of "You Alone Exist" -Day 2". ambppct.org. https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Amartithi-2021-Online-Session-Schedule-for-ambppct.org_.pdf.
- ↑ Kerkhove, Ray (February 10, 2007). "Unstructured networking in a charisma-based new religious movement: the 'Baba lovers'". Australian Religion Studies Review 20 (2): 159. https://ixtheo.de/Record/169406588X.
Bibliography
- D. E. Stevens (1986). Listen Humanity. Crossroad Pub.
- Robbins Thomas and Anthony Dick (1972). Getting Straight with Meher Baba. JSTOR.
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