The popular saint in India, Meher Baba was a strong advocate of universal love and devotion. He was born in Pune, Maharashtra on 25th February, 1894 and his real name was Merwan Shaharianji Irani. It was his father who imparted him the first spiritual inspiration and Merwan was the second among the six children that his parents had. He was brought up as a Zoroastrian and his life changed after meeting a female Muslim saint, named Hazrat Babaja, at the age of 17 years.

Meher Baba got a lot of religious and spiritual lessons from Hazrat Babaja and after getting the lessons; he started his own journey of searching for spiritual peace. He got into the state of super-consciousness for the first time in the year of 1920. He remained in that state for lots of months and he was entirely oblivion to his earthly existence at that period of time. He regained his consciousness almost after a year and after that, he started to spread his thoughts and knowledge among the people.

In a vie to spread his thoughts, Meher Baba set up an ashram that is now called Meherabad, in the month of April, 1923. According to him, the duty of an avatar is to awaken humanity to the spiritual nature. Zoroastrianism vastly influenced the teachings of Meher Baba. Meher Baba believed that be it consciously or unconsciously, every living creature seeks a spiritual goal. Meher Baba left the earthly abode on 31st January, 1969.