Bhau Kalchuri

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 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 (AMBPPCT). Today he is its chairman and oversees all operations at the trust office in Ahmednagar and the trust mandated developments at Meherabad near Arangaon, 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 various 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 publically accessible. Currently Kalchuri gives talks all around the world on the life and teachings of Avatar Meher Baba, and publishes an online periodical Manifestations. He has made several trips to the United States, traveling throughout the states and been interviewed in both press and radio.

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• 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.
• Avatar Meher Baba Manifesting (out of print)
• While the World Slept (out of print)
• 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)

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