The five Perfect Masters are
the five Persons of their age
who not only become God but,
after achieving God-Realization, also come down
to the ordinary normal consciousness of man.
Thus they possess simultaneously God-Consciousness
plus mental, subtle and gross consciousness.
The world is never without the five Persons
who are God-Conscious, who are Perfect Masters.

In spite of appearing as five different Persons,
they are and always remain one God,
as each one has exactly the same supreme experience
of God-Consciousness.
Nevertheless, in external relations with the world,
each shows a different personality,
with his or her own characteristic traits,
tastes, nature, habits and
ways of dealing with people.

All the five Perfect Masters –
BABAJAN,
NARAYAN MAHARAJ,
TAJUDDlN BABA,
SAl BABA,
UPASNl MAHARAJ
put together mean ME – THE AVATAR.

All five of these Perfect Masters
have brought me down,
and all that I have become
is due to these five.
I am made of all the attributes
of all five of these Masters,
and my Avataric state comprises the five states
of these five Perfect Masters.
Therefore, the qualities of all five
are in me.

– Meher Baba –