Havovi
Dadachangi
DVD Documentary
For the Sake of Love

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For the Sake of Love
By: Havovi Dadachangi
Location: Pilgrim Pines, 1996 Los Angeles Sahavas
Time: 57 minutes
The title for this talk was inspired by one of Baba’s telegrams
urging His lovers to love Him more and more. Havovi Dadachangi,
a long time lover of Baba, shares her story with us. Her Baba story
starts in 1953 with her engagement to Hoshang Dadachangi. Havovi
is Zoroastrian and she was named after Zoroaster’s wife, Havovi.
Havovi did not know anything about Baba and the thought of God in
human form was foreign to her. Havovi was not impressed before or
after her meeting with Baba although Baba gave the sign of perfection
after meeting her. She found reasons not to like Baba and would
agree with people who openly slandered Baba. For example, Baba permitted
smoking and her religion did not permit smoking (using sacred fire
at the end of your lips is sacrilegious); Baba permitted marriage
between caste and her religion did not. For seven years, Havovi
would see Baba, not for love, but to keep harmony with her husband
and relatives; and to keep an eye on her husband. When she met Baba
lovers who described meeting Baba in dreams, she thought these people
crazy. Havovi loved the women mandali, but did not understand their
love and devotion to Baba.
Baba turned the key after seven years. There was no “Eureka”
moment when Havovi suddenly loved Baba, but in the 1960s when she
and her relatives went to Guruprasad regularly on the weekends to
see Baba, her objections to Baba died and was replaced with love.
Other stories in this DVD include her sadra kusti story, novjote
ceremony for her children, and other Baba related stories.
Kanji
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