“Rays as Particles of the Sun”
(p. 216)

 

 

“Notes on the Figures” (p. 530)
The gap of several lines in TTL p. 96 is filled with a handwritten diagram in TTL/FF p. 96; another handwritten draft appears in TLD/FF: 5-8-26, p. 4. This appears to be derived from diary versions of this diagram in ChD 57: pp. 143 and 138 (the former evidently a fair-hand copy of the latter). The diagram in the present edited text has been developed from all this manuscript source material. The gap of several lines in TTL p. 96 is filled with a handwritten diagram in TTL/FF p. 96; another handwritten draft appears in TLD/FF: 5-8-26, p. 4. This appears to be derived from diary versions of this diagram in ChD 57: pp. 143 and 138 (the former evidently a fair-hand copy of the latter). The diagram in the present edited text has been developed from all this manuscript source material. The mandali names in the diary renderings are abbreviated and in some cases almost illegible. In ChD 57: p. 143, the more finished of the two diary diagrams, the abbreviations appear to be these: Moh., Bar., Dad., Nus., Rus., Beh., Khod., and Vish. ChD 57: p. 138 gives us four abbreviations: Moh., Bar., Dad., and a fourth that is illegible. TLD/FF: 5-8-26, p. 4 provides us with: Rust, Beh, Dad, Now, Vish, and Sail. In TTL/FF p. 96 we find: Rest (poor handwriting for “Rust”?), Beh, Dad, Now, Vish, Moh (or Mah), Arj, Sail, and Kar. Combining these lists, the men referred to appear to be: Mohan Rao, Abdur Rehman (nicknamed “Barsoap”), Dadachanji (known as “Chanji”), Nusserwan Satha, Rustom Irani, Beheramji, Khodu (nicknamed “Sailor”), Vishnu, Arjun, and Karim. “Now” may possibly abbreviate “Naoroji.” Chanji had a brother by this name, who was known to have visited Meherabad from as early as 13th September 1926; alternately, Naoroji was Nusserwan Satha’s middle name, though he is unlikely to have been referred to as such. Then again, “Now” could abbreviate the first syllable in “Nusserwan,” who was known to be in attendance at this talk. Most of these men numbered among the resident mandali at Meherabad at this time, and probably all of them were present at this particular Tiffin Lecture. In all three charts the named disciples are represented as rays (kiraṇ) of the Sun. While the abbreviated names begin on the left with the left-most rays and run to the right, the rays on the far right have no names associated but are given numbers that run from right to left. The idea seems clearly to be that the divine Sun emits rays, and that the named mandali are instances of this. No consistency appears in the number of ray-lines in the source diagrams: ChD 57: p. 143 has eleven, ChD 57: p. 138 has ten, and TTL/FF p. 96 has thirteen. This irregularity makes it unclear whether or how this diagram should be correlated with what Baba has said elsewhere about the circles of the Sadguru, and particularly with his comments on the numerologies associated with these circles (see esp. pp. 104–9, 118–20 and 489–99).

Source Diagrams

ChD 57: p. 143 ChD 57: p. 138 TLD/FF: 5-8-26, p. 4
TTL_096 TTL/FF p. 90