THE GOD-MAN The Life, Journeys and Work of Meher Baba with an ...

Part II Chapter 5THE TEACHING'I am not a teacher'(1)From the beginning Meher Baba has declared that he is not a teacher. In answer to a question in 1932, hesaid:"My work is to lead others to reach the goal: to live in the world and not to be of it, and to be in harmonywith everything and everyone."He does this by silence and not-writing. These strange methods challenge normal life; not that others, too,should cease to speak and write, but that they should ask themselves questions. Baba's sister Mani tells of avisitor who came to him with a long list of questions, but sitting with him the questions were forgotten. Onhis leaving, Baba said:"There is only one question. And, once you know the answer to that question, there will be no morequestions. In fact, there are not two questions."There is the one Original Question, to which there is one Final Answer. In between the original Questionand the final Answer there are innumerable false answers."From out of the depth of unbroken Infinity arose the Question, 'Who am I?' And to that Question there isthe answer, 'I am God!'"Baba is not a teacher, because there is teaching enough already. Yet he does teach because the mind hasto be addressed and awakened as well as the heart. That is the explanation of the great amount of teaching bythis non-teacher, though he does not cease to point out that it is the less important thing. Indeed, he oftensays to those who are listening, 'This does not concern you'. I have often thought of the