Friday, July 5, 2019

The rags of sham

The rags of sham                                                                                    

Fake news – a term long ago coined by my Lord.
Articles chosen from a newspaper (say, perhaps,

the Times of India) read aloud  
by a mandali member and Meher Baba

would comment on them.  Bogus news, He called it.
A routine way to dissolve anger, fear and discord

in the purity of His blessed assurance. 
Our news today comes from the world’s elite –

the experts, anchors, pundits, pollsters, professors;
the New York Times, the Washington Post,

Fox News, NPR, the Networks, the wire services.
Still it is the same rags of sham –

fake news – for the very same reasons
declared so then by Meher Baba:

Because of the utter gross ignorance, the bias
and incapacity, the fundamental misconceptions

of the worldly people who gather,
read, write, distribute and advocate it.

O child of God, the only all-knowing source of truth
is your Real Self.  All else is bogus news.


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