Shireen Sheriar Irani

Shireen Sheriar Irani

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caption = Mother of Meher Baba
birth_date = 1878
birth_place = Bombay, India
death_date = February 25, 1943
death_place = Pune, India
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religion = Zoroastrianism
spouse = Sheriar Mundegar Irani
children = Jamshed, Merwan, Freiny, Jal, Beheram, Adi, Mani
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Shireen Sheriar Irani (born Shireen Dorab Khuramshahi) (1878- February 25, 1943), was the mother of Indian spiritual master Meher Baba.

In 1878 Shireen's Zoroastrian parents, Dorabji and Golandoon Khuramshahi, migrated from Iran to Bombay, India fleeing religious persecution while Golandoon was still pregnant with her. When Shireen was a few weeks old, her parents relocated to Pune, India and joined the large Parsi and Irani community there. There her father Dorabji opened a small tea shop. [ "Lord Meher", Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation Inc. 1986, p. 133] By an unusual set of circumstances, at the age of five Shireen was engaged to Sheriar Mundegar Irani, a spiritual mendicant who had spent many years of his life as a wandering dervish and ascetic and was 25 years her senior. Tired of being pressed by his sister Piroja to get married, Sheriar had pointed out the window at a passing school girl (Shireen) and said he would marry that little girl or no one, apparently to get his sister to stop troubling him. However Piroja went to Shireen's mother Golandoon and arranged for a marriage that took place when Shireen was 14. ["Lord Meher", Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation Inc. 1986, p. 135] Constrained by his promise, Sheriar was forced to settle down and begin a householder's life and find work. He first worked as a gardener, then took charge of an estate, and afterwards opened a tea-shop like Shireen's father, which later expanded into a successful toddy business.

Shireen is especially well known as the mother of Merwan Irani, who was her second child and was later named Meher Baba. When Merwan was 19 he began to have mystical experiences after a short contact with a Muslim master Hazrat Babajan. Shireen did everything to cure his "illness" and even after Meher Baba began to be more stabilized, she urged him to give up the ascetic life he had begun like his father and to get a career and be married. Meher Baba of course never did and this conflict caused grief for both of them. However, eventually Shireen came to believe that her son was a true spiritual master and was resigned to his choice when she died.

In all Sheriar and Shireen had nine children, seven sons and two daughters: Jamshed, Merwan (Meher Baba), Freini, Jal, Shirmund, Jehangir, Behram, Ardeshir (Adi), and Mani. Of these, three died in childhood: one son named Shirmund at seven months, another son named Jehangir at two years, and a daughter named Freiny, who died of the plague in 1902 when she was six years old. ["Lord Meher", Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation Inc. 1986, p. 156]

Shireen died in her home in Pune on her son Meher Baba's birthday, February 25, 1943. She was 65. ["Lord Meher", Bhau Kalchuri, Manifestation Inc. 1986, p. 2851] Her remains are buried near Meher Baba's samadhi in Meherabad.

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