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Role of Master
your guru or guide on the Divine path, and at any subsequent stage discover his incapability to help you up to the final mark, decide for yourself of what avail he can be to you, except wasting your time and energy, and to remain ever deprived of the final approach. You engage a tutor for your child to coach him up in a certain subject but afterwards you discover that he is not so well up in the subject to serve the required purpose. What will you do then, except to replace him by another, better suited for the job? The same should be the procedure in this case also.
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OWNING OF CONDITION
Throughout my spiritual life I could never even for a moment imagine that the vast spiritual treasure possessed by my master was not mine in any sense, exactly like a child who always thinks of his father's wealth to be his own. I do possess it in the fullest degree, and at the same time I am never miserly in bestowing it upon others associated with me. But the difficulty arises when one does not try to own it for
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