Symbols of the world's religions

ELEPHANTS

Ivy Oneita Duce

When Meher Baba was asked as to what should be the correct and safest attitude of people towards saints, he very knowingly recalled the significant words of the Persian Poet, Hafiz:

Either do not form friendship with an elephant driver;
Or be prepared to receive his elephant as well.*


*Dr. Abdul Ghani Munsiff, Meher Baba Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, January 1940, p. 173.
 
HOW A MASTER WORKS, p. xxii
Copyright 1975 by Sufism Reoriented, Inc.

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