DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA
WHAT DOES A GOD-REALIZED PERSON HAVE IN COMMON
![Early 1930s. Meher Baba giving a message to Charles Purdom in London. Image rendition by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i4d1bfbe26ff2b104/version/1721767005/image.jpg)
26th September, 1926
Later that day, Baba asked the mandali to solve the following riddle: "What does a God-realized person have in common with each of these: a materialist, an animal, an atheist, a child and an idiot?"
No one could guess the answer, so Baba explained:
"There are two who do not care about religion — a materialist and a God-realized person.
"There are two who do not care about money — an animal and a God-realized person.
"There are two who do not worship God — an atheist and a God-realized person.
"There are two who are free from lust — a child and a God-realized person.
"There are two who have no anger — an idiot and a God-realized person."