Variations
Some printings of the prayer contain variations. The original 1964 printing of Charles Purdom's The God-Man (London: Allen & Unwin, 1964) reads "harm" (not "ruin"). Also, an editorial footnote in the first English text of Lord Meher: The Biography of the Avatar of the Age Meher Baba (printed and Web-based) notes that the last word "will" was originally "wish," but was unintentionally changed due to a printing error. However, this account is contradicted by Eruch Jessawala, the disciple who translated the prayer from its original Gujarati, the language it was given in by Meher Baba, who said he originally translated it as given. In an article on the topic in LoveStreet LampPost (2000) Ward Parks writes, "Eruch explained that Baba had originally dictated the prayer to him in Gujarati. In that language, the last word of the prayer was marji (marzi in Urdu), an etymon that does not differentiate between 'wish' and 'will' but encompasses both meanings." The prayer is recited as given above during arti ceremonies at Meherabad, and is as it is on the official Avatar Meher Baba Trust website.
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