DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

IMPORTANCE OF HAVING A JUDAS IN THE CIRCLE

 15 September, 1927

The next day at Meherabad, while explaining why the Avatar or Christ always has a person like Judas among his disciples, Baba drew a circle on the ground with his finger, and keeping his finger on the circumference of the circle, he disclosed:

Lord Ram had his Ravana, Christ his Judas. One of the twelve men in the circle is always like that. Suppose my finger was a compass. I, as the Master, am the point in the middle and the outside ring is my circle. Now observe what happens when the circle is complete and the compass is stationary. The pencil is still on one point of the circle. The one who is under the point shouts! That is Judas.

Eleven members of the circle are God-realized during my lifetime — the twelfth after I die. He being the "Dark Side," realizes me after I have physically departed.

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