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Role of Abhyasi
had no choice or liking nor even a sense of discrimination between the right and the wrong. To me everything of his was what it ought to be. I was in complete submission to his will and could never think otherwise even for a moment. I literally followed the following concept:
“If your spiritual guide asks you to dye your prayer carpet with wine, do it; for he, having travelled himself the entire distance, is well aware of all ups and downs of the path!”
One might think it a serious blunder on my part. My simple answer to it would be that like Majnun. I was beside myself with the madness of love, and a Majnun can best be judged from the viewpoint of Laila. I was concerned solely with my beloved Laila. This is in a word about me and my condition, but for others I do not insist upon their taking up the same course of mad love.
The shastras may be of value to those who aspire for the realisation God or attain the bliss of paradise and the joyful company of the houris (celestial damsels). Since I had no such aspirations
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