Meher Baba said of the five Perfect Masters:

The five greatest thieves of the world are the five living Perfect Masters of their time. They often steal the hearts of people, and periodically they also steal me and bring me down amongst you. Again and again I must become what I am, and each time is due to the five Perfect Masters. Wherever I may incarnate, [Persia, India, Israel or Arabia] at whatever time, it will always be due to those five.

I never come of my own wish. It is always the five Perfect Masters who bring me down [into human form] in each Avataric period. Those five hold the key to all of creation which contains an infinite number of universes.

Man can become God and men who become God can become Perfect Masters. It is because of the five Perfect Masters that I appear on earth as a man. They fetch me down, and I experience myself as everything and so I tell you that I am God. I am everything

The state of God-Realization, Infinate Knowledge, Power and Bliss cannot be described. It can only be known to those who achieve that supreme experience of the conscious state of God. God-Realization is beyond the domain of teh mind. 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, nature, habits and ways of dealing with people.

All the five Perfect Masters, BABAJAN, NARAYAN MAHARAJ, TAJUDDIN BABA, SAI BABA, and UPASNI 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

Hazrat Babajan

Oh Babajan! Our loving and full hearted homage to you! Your kiss awakened the Awakener and gave him bliss! You reveiled the Formless One!

Upasni Maharaj

Oh Upasni Maharaj, our repeated salutations to you! Your name will be revered for ages to come! You brought down the Ancient One and gave him the knowledge to wipe away the tears of our Age!

Narayan Maharaj

Oh Narayan Maharaj! Our repeated salutations to you! You garlanded the Ancient One with your grace! You enthroned the King of the universe!

Sai Baba

Oh Nameless One! Oh you who are called Sai! How can we repay you for what you have done for us? You brought Formless God into form and gave him power!

Tajuddin Baba

Oh Tajuddin Baba, you are Hazrat — a great one! We bow to you, your wine still flows in our hearts! You showered roses and crowned our King!