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[[Image:Dhuni.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Meher Baba's disciple [[Padri (Mandali)|Padri]] lights the Dhuni fire in 1980]]

The '''Dhuni''' is a fire [[ritual]] that [[Meher Baba]] coopted from other religious traditions and made his own. Thus his use of the word and modification of its performance is not precisely analagous to its ordinary form as found in [[Hinduism]].

The modified dhuni fire ritual observed by Indian spiritual master [[Meher Baba]] was nearly the only, if not only, ''bona fide'' religious [[ritual]] that Meher Baba performed durring his lifetime. It is still performed on the 12th of each month at [[Meher Pilgrim Center|The Meher Pilgrim Center]] in [[Meherabad]], and is a large portion of the Amartithi (death day) celebrations in January of each year which attracts up to 30,000 [[pilgrimage|pilgrims]] annually in India. Because Meher Baba was generally discouraged placing what he often perceived to be undue emphasis on rituals for their own sake, his dhuni has gradually attained a unique status among activities at his centers in India and around the world.