DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

WHY DOES BABA GET ANGRY ?

August, 1922

Once, when Baba was in an open mood, Sarosh asked him, "Why do you sometimes get so angry with us?"

Baba explained:

I am never violent or angry. For me anger, pride, lust, happiness or misery do not exist. Nothing like that exists for me. But when I appear angry at someone, it is his anger that expresses itself through me. I am the medium through which both your good and bad show themselves. You see your own face reflected in the mirror. Whatever you look like — this is what you see in the mirror. The image is not only there in the mirror, but in the face itself. The mirror is unchanging. If the face is not good, can it appear differently in the mirror? What you see in the mirror is your exact likeness — it is not the likeness of the mirror!

Using another analogy, Baba continued:

A ball thrown against a wall rebounds to you with the same force with which you throw it. The wall is always at a standstill — absolutely stationary. You receive whatever resulting force you use in throwing the ball against the wall.

In conclusion, however I appear to you, it is only your own reflected image. I am always still and unchangeable — like the wall or the mirror.

Lord Meher On-line page 316-7

Lord Meher Vol.2 p.398