DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

IMBALANCED EMOTIONAL TEMPERAMENT

6 June, 1927

Later during this period, however, Nusserwanji was reported to be behaving like a madman, moving about almost naked and beating anyone who tried to pacify him. On 6 June 1927, referring to him and others of a similar imbalanced emotional temperament, Baba commented:

To express one's feelings in such a violent way is not good. It has nothing to do with Truth.

The feelings and overflow of emotions must be controlled, checked, and gradually turned into submission, to enable one to be set upon the Path. Such uncontrolled outbursts of feelings will otherwise lead a person into awkward situations. He will not advance a whit along the Path, but on the contrary, will make himself a laughingstock in the world. If the same is not checked in time, a person is likely to really go mad and pass his remaining life in a lunatic asylum.

True, those who get such outbursts of feeling have a loving nature and a bent of mind toward the Truth, but, as I said, the same should be checked. If not, in the course of time it proves an empty show, as has been the case with Waman Subnis and Kisan Master. Both had an outburst of feelings which they were unable to check, exhibiting a great show of love and asceticism, but soon became their old selves, once again involved in worldly affairs.

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