What is Meher Baba?
{{Infobox philosopher | name = Meher Baba | image = Meher Baba 1945.jpg | image_size = 250px |caption =Meher Baba in 1945 | birth_name = Merwan Sheriar Irani | birth_date = {{birth date|1894|2|25|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Pune]], [[British Raj|British India]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1969|1|31|1894|2|25}} | death_place = [[Meherazad]], India | main_interests = [[Religion]], [[metaphysics]], [[aesthetics]], [[ethics]] | books = ''[[God Speaks]]'', ''[[Discourses (Meher Baba)|Discourses]]'' | influences = [[Hazrat Babajan]], [[Sai Baba of Shirdi]], [[Upasni Maharaj]], [[Tajuddin Muhammad Badruddin|Hazrat Tajuddin Baba]], [[Narayan Maharaj]] | signature = Meher Baba (signature).jpg | signature_size = | website = {{URL|http://www.ambppct.org/}} }} '''Meher Baba''' (25 February 1894 {{ndash}} 31 January 1969) referred to himself as the Avatar of the Age. His birth name was Merwan Irani and his parents' names were Sheriar and Shireen Irani. His family lived in Poona (Pune) India, but they were of [[Persia]]n descent. Today Persia is called [[Iran]]. They were not [[Hinduism|Hindu]]s or [[Islam|Muslim]]s, but were of the [[Zoroastrianism|Zoroastrian]] religion. Merwan had a normal childhood and liked poetry and sports, especially [[cricket]]. When he was thirteen years old he started a boy's club with his best school friends called ''The Cosmopolitan Club''. The boys in the club kept up on the news, practiced public speaking at their clubhouse, and raised money to give to the [[Poverty|poor]]. He graduated from St. Vincent's High School and attended Deccan College. In 1913, when Baba was nineteen, he was coming home from college riding a bicycle. A very old [[Islam|Muslim]] woman named [[Hazrat Babajan]], referred to as a Perfect Master (God Realized), was sitting under a [[Neem]] tree, called for him to come over to her, he said he was drawn to her like iron to a magnet. He began spending time visi