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By the time of their first of two gigs at The Festival Hall, Melbourne, during an Australian tour, Pete Townshend of The Who and Ronnie Lane of The Small Faces have become almost constant companions.
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Ronnie Lane : I was reading a couple of Sufi books, and he was reading this book about a guy called Meher Baba, that had this thing called Sufism Reoriented. So I started to learn about Baba, and he seemed like an all right guy, and Pete and I had fun.
Pete Townshend : Every time I came up with a worldwide theory that had taken me years to get clear, [a friend of mine] would say, "That's such a coincidence, man, this guy Meher Baba said something similar in this book The God Man." I just had to look at this book. What I saw, apart from a photo in the front cover of a strange and elderly man, was shattering.
Sure enough, each theory I expounded, many to do with reincarnation and its inevitability when considered in the light of the law of averages, were summed up in one sentence...
What was so sneaky about the whole affair was the way Baba crept into my life. At first his words were encouraging, his state of consciousness and his claims to be the Christ exciting and daring; later they became scary. I began to read of his astoundingly simple relationship with his disciples and of his silence for forty years. It became clear that the party was over. If I read any more lines like, "What I want from my lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done," I would have to decide once and for all whether the whole thing was really for me or not.
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Pete Townshend : Every time I came up with a worldwide theory that had taken me years to get clear, [a friend of mine] would say, "That's such a coincidence, man, this guy Meher Baba said something similar in this book The God Man." I just had to look at this book. What I saw, apart from a photo in the front cover of a strange and elderly man, was shattering.
Sure enough, each theory I expounded, many to do with reincarnation and its inevitability when considered in the light of the law of averages, were summed up in one sentence...
What was so sneaky about the whole affair was the way Baba crept into my life. At first his words were encouraging, his state of consciousness and his claims to be the Christ exciting and daring; later they became scary. I began to read of his astoundingly simple relationship with his disciples and of his silence for forty years. It became clear that the party was over. If I read any more lines like, "What I want from my lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done," I would have to decide once and for all whether the whole thing was really for me or not.
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