Đức Thầy xưng Điên hay Khùng trong suốt 5 cuốn Sám Giảng có nhiều lý do: Thứ nhứt, ngài muốn tránh sự dòm ngó của mật thám Tây nhiều nhất có thể, chúng luôn tìm cách tiêu diệt những mầm móng kháng chiến chống lại chúng,
Thứ hai, ngài mượn hai chữ Khùng Điên cũng để nói lên hoàn cảnh ngang trái lúc ngài mới ra đời dạy đạo, nhiều người không hiểu dèm pha, đàm tiếu, đến nỗi nặng lời xúc phạm, nên ngài tuy xưng vậy nhưng các tín đồ của ngài hay những ai có cơ duyên đều nhận ra ngài chỉ muốn ẩn danh mà thôi, chứ qua các hiện tượng mầu nhiệm xảy ra xung quanh ngài thì không ai có thể nghi ngờ ngài là bậc thánh nhân ra đời lúc nạn tai để cứu vớt quần sanh.
Theo sử sách ngày xưa cũng có nhiều bậc anh hùng hào kiệt, vì muốn tránh bị hại, điển hình như Hàn Tín, Lưu Bị, Tôn Tẩn, vô số trường hợp khác, đều giả điên giả khờ để qua truông, để dễ dàng hòa nhập với quần chúng và giáo hóa họ.
Lord Master called Himself Crazy or Mad throughout the five (5) volumes of the Oracles for many reasons.
First, he wanted to avoid the scrutiny of French detectives as much as possible, who always sought to eliminate any sign of insurrection against them.
Secondly, He borrowed these two words, Mad and Crazy, also to refer to the adverse circumstances under which He started his Mission. Many did not understand Him, thus deriding Him and, sometimes, going as far as offending Him. In this ense, He only wanted to hide his true identity. However, his followers or those who had predestined conditions with him realized that he only wanted to remain anonymous. Through the mysterious phenomena that occurred around him, no one could doubt that he was an holy man born down the world to save all the sentient beings.
In the old days, it was said that many heroes who, because they wanted to avoid being unnecessarily harmed, such as Han Tin, Liu Bei, Sun Tẩn, and in countless other cases, all pretended crazy to pass through, to easily intermingle with the masses in order to transform them.
This also means the Latter Days of the Dharma in the Three Ages of Buddhism. In contrast to the first two Ages, the Former and Middle Days, the first of which people may refer to the Golden One, the Latter Days has the characteristic of a Dark Era, during which Buddhism starts to decline in that its Dharma, however widespread across all areas of the planet were, has witnessed many learners but virtually no one who reached enlightenment as in the last Two Ages.
The person who are not restrained by reason nor judgement, very angry, mentally ill. However, if someone calls themselves Mad or Crazy, they may not be so, as they pretend to be so, and they do so for a certain purpose, such as avoiding the attention of others who may harm them if they find out who the latter are. In history, there were many characters who put on such such unusual masks as Mad or Crazy, Beggar, Drunkard, etc, so that they hide their identity more effectively lest they should risk being put in danger. These people might pursue a covert mission. In this case, Lord Master played this role for many reasons:
First, Lord Master has accomplished His full enlightenment and went back to the world as a Bodhisattva to save the world. Thus, given that a lot of people would obstruct His mission if they knew it straight away, He might not be able to test their level of moral practice, and to teach them when they realize they made a mistake.
Second, there were a lof authorities from different government levels would suspect Him of plotting their government if He attracted a lot of followers. In order to avoid the intelligence agents, He must pretend to be a commoner, a poor or disabled person.