Bhau Kalchuri

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other_names = Vir Singh Kalchuri


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Bhau Kalchuri (January 13, 1926 - ), born Vir Singh Kalchuri, is an Indian author, poet, trust administrator, and one of Meher Baba's mandali (close disciples). Bhau Kalchuri is also the principle biographer of Meher Baba's life.

Bhau Kalchuri was born one of seven children to well-to-do parents in a northern Indian village. When Bhau was ten, his father sent him to a district school for a better education, and from then on Bhau excelled in all his studies, completing master’s degrees in public administration, law, and chemistry. Bhau Kalchuri was a relative latecomer to Meher Baba's circle, meeting Meher Baba in 1952 and joining him permanently in 1953 at the age of 27. He served Baba in various capacities including as his night watchman. Meher Baba gave Bhau several writing assignments, many of which he completed only after Meher Baba died in 1969. In 1973 Bhau became a trustee of the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust. [ [http://www.ambppct.org/trust/trust-history.php Avatar Meher Baba Trust History] ] Today he is its chairman and oversees all operations at the trust office in Ahmednagar and the trust mandated developments at Meherabad, India.

Kalchuri is best known for his exhaustive biography of Meher Baba, "Lord Meher" (also known as "Meher Prabu"), a twenty volume 6,472 page chronicle based on diaries kept by Baba's followers from as early as 1922, as well as recorded interviews. He is also author of "Avatar Meher Baba Manifesting" and "The Nothing and The Everything", a book on spiritual mechanics based on notes given to him by Meher Baba. He has also written several plays and books of verse. Bhau writes in Hindi and English.

Of all of Meher Baba's still living mandali, Bhau Kalchuri is today one of the most publicly accessible. Currently Kalchuri gives talks all around the world on the life and teachings of Avatar Meher Baba, and publishes an online periodical "Awakenings". Starting in 1985, he has made extensive speaking tours both inside and outside of India (predominantly the United States but also many trips to Europe and Australia). He has been interviewed in both press and radio. [ [http://www.jaibaba.com/mandali/bhau/2004-Tour-West-Final.html Jaibaba.com] ]

Publications

English published

* "Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher, The Biography of the Avatar of the Age, Meher Baba." Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation, Inc. 1986. 20-volume biography taken from numerous journals and interviews.
* "Meher Baba's New Life"
* "Avatar Meher Baba Manifesting" (out of print)
* "While the World Slept"
* "The Nothing and the Everything" (out of print)
* "Let's Go To Meherabad
* "Mastery in Servitude
* "Meher Gheetika
* "Meher Roshani
* "Meher Sarod
* "Ocean Waves, Volume I and II
* "The Spiritual Training Program
* "Sun Rays
* "You Alone Exist" (prayer)

English to be published

* "The Everything and The Nothing" (translation and expansion of the Hindi edition)
* "Supplement to The Wayfarers
* "Stories for Children, Mischievous and Otherwise
* "The Human Way of God
* "Questions and Answers
* "Awakenings
* "Autobiography
* "Songbook [Title TBD]

Hindi

* "Divya Leela" (play)
* "Jai Meher" (Play performed in Sarosh Cinema, men and lady Mandali in attendance)
* "Meher Darshan
* "Meher Jyoti (Flame)" (songs)
* "Meher Leela" (biography of Meher Baba up until 1965 in verse)
* "Prem Mahima (The Glory of Love)" (play)
* "Vishvas (Faith)" (play)
* "You Alone Exist" (prayer)

DVDs

* "Bhau Kalchuri: Meher Baba's Lion" (dir. David Hammer. Interviews, audience Q&A plus two music videos, one of a song written by Kalchuri)

References

External links

*youtube|wG_1YJ-NreQ|Bhau Kalchuri
* [http://www.jaibaba.com/mandali/bhau/bhau.html Bhau Kalchuri "Awakenings" website]
* [http://www.lordmeher.org/index.jsp Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher] (Online searchable version)
* [http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/bhau.html Bhau Kalchuri excerpts]
* [http://www.avatarmeherbaba.org/erics/youalone.html You Alone Exist] (Poem by Bhau Kalchuri in collaboration with Meher Baba)
* [http://www.jaibaba.com/mandali/bhauji/book/intro.html "Tales for Children, Mischievous and Otherwise"] (with illustrations by Nadia Wolinska)

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NAME = Kalchuri, Bhau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Vir Singh Kalchuri
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Author
DATE OF BIRTH = January 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH = North India
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