The First Avatar to Emphasize the West

Meher Baba is the first avatar to focus on the West. 

Baba was born in British India in 1894. London was the new Rome of that period. 

Dr. Chakradhar Deshmukh

Baba's Discourses were worked up from his notes taken by Dr. Chakradhar Deshmukh, a professor of philosophy with his Ph.D. in both Western and Eastern philosophy from the University of London. 

In 1944, at the Breton Woods Conference, the capital of the new Anglo-American Empire was officially moved to the USA. 

In 1955 God Speaks was published in New York in English.

While Baba toured the world during his lifetime, he spent his longest continuous periods in the U.K., the U.S.A. and Australia, all English speaking countries.

All of Baba's books were originally published in English. 

In his lifetime the majority of Baba's followers were in India and the English speaking Western countries. 

At the time of Mohammad the seats of world power were the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) and the Persian Empire (Persia). England at that time was only a collection of brawling Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, far from being a major world power. The Americas and Australia had not been discovered by most of the world yet and did not have writing or the wheel. 

So, if one considers what locations had the greatest international influence at the time, it makes sense that the Avatar would focus for the first time on the Western Empires. 

Baba in the Los Angeles Times 1956

I say this because in recent centuries the West has advanced materially, all of which occurred since Mohammad, but it has been left pitiably behind in regard to spiritual philosophy. 

Non-dualism was developed in India in the 8th century and in Muslim Spain in the 12th century. But the Americas and Europe are still struggling with pitiful issues like the problem of evil as left off by Saint Augustine in 5th century Roman Empire -- where it has only stagnated since. And it is frankly now grossly behind.

I believe that due to Baba's intellectual influence through his books, the Western world will now begin to catch up in the coming centuries.

Addendum 7/16/26:

The following is from Mehera Meher, p. 145.

Kumar was now living with the mandali in Satara and wondered why all of Baba’s books were published in English. “Why not publish something in Hindi, for Indians?” he asked.

Baba replied, “I have come specially for the West this time. If you ask any illiterate Indian on the street ‘Where is God?’ he will humbly reply with folded hands, ‘I don’t know,’ but inside his heart he knows, he has that feeling, that respect of how to love God. But in the West, people only follow the priests, go to church, bow down at the altar – they don’t know how to love God. This, they will have to learn. They don’t know how to approach God; that relation-ship with Him does not exist.”