Adi was sharing a room with Sarosh. Every evening when Sarosh returned from his training to the Manzil, first he would meet Baba, who would embrace him lovingly and comment, "Here is my king!" But one night, Sarosh too began having many undesirable thoughts — even thoughts about Baba's character. He tossed and turned and could not fall asleep. Sometime after midnight, Faredoon came with a message that Baba was calling Sarosh. Sarosh went upstairs to Baba's bedroom and sat beside him. Baba asked him, "Why weren't you sleeping?" Sarosh muttered a reply, and Baba said, "Don't worry.
You are only human. You will get all sorts of thoughts — good thoughts, bad thoughts. You will even get thoughts about me. But keep in your heart — write it down! — I am the purest soul, and in the future, you will come to know who I am and what I am."
Sarosh was flabbergasted. He bowed down to Baba and begged his forgiveness.
Despite Baba being quite thin, one day he demonstrated his strength to Adi. He told Adi to wrestle with him with all his might. Taken aback, Adi did not know quite what to do, but began lightly grappling with Baba, who said, "No! As hard as you can!" Baba looked so frail that Adi did not wish to hurt him, but he had to obey and exerted his full strength against Baba. He was, therefore, greatly startled when Baba, without much effort, picked him up and threw him on the floor!
Another time, Baba sat on the floor in the corner of the square dining room with his back to the wall and his knees up. He told one of the men to place the bottom of their feet on Baba's knees. Others were told to line up behind the man and push against his back as hard as they could. Despite doing this, they could not move Baba's knees. On another occasion, to convince them that he had superhuman strength, he once challenged all the mandali to a tug-of-war. Even 40 of the men, using all their strength, could not budge him an inch! Meher Baba had inherited certain characteristics from each of his five Masters. It is known that Babajan, Tajuddin Baba and Sai Baba would, at times, slap people or use abusive language if someone displeased them or displayed arrogance. Narayan Maharaj had a high-pitched, squeaking voice and was as meek as a child. Narayan had a gentle, jamali personality and he rarely abused anyone in front of others. Although Upasni Maharaj could oftentimes appear meek and humble, his foremost characteristic was jalali — divinely glorious and awe-inspiring — and his beating of disciples was frequent. Such a beating was considered a true blessing. From the time Baba began staying in Manzil-e-Meem, he would sometimes exhibit this jalali trait — a fiery or violent mood. At such times, every man would be terrified of him and it was difficult to remain in his presence; some would even run away and hide in their rooms.