Sri Saradamma
Sometimes I appear to get angry with devotees, but it is not anger in the way that most people understand the term. If I see a devotee's ego rising I may appear to get angry in order to deflate the ego, but it is not ego anger. When you clean clothes by beating them against a rock you are not angry with the clothes, you are only using a necessary amount of violence to remove the dirt. Similarly when I attack a devotee's ego with anger I am attempting to clean and purify the mind in a forceful way. I am not really angry, it only appears to be so.
Saradamma also uses this apparent anger to inculcate a little fear into devotee's minds since she feels that one should fear the Guru as well as love him.
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