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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM VOL 5
meaningless chatter of their mind. Though the Masters words of God and Devil in this context may appear odd, if we take the words in a broader sense it would mean the replacement of the opposites.
I was accustomed to the custom of eating food followed by some good delicious sweet dish and in the end eat some thing that is peppery and hot. That is the way the majority of South Indian festival eating is. A Muslim senior officer came to visit us when I was working at Vizag. As usual the practice of eating sweet dish was completed. Then when we were about to serve him something peppery, he exclaimed why we are taking away the sweetness in his mouth. That is the first time I started reflecting on this practice and ever since I have the habit of ending the dinner or lunch with the sweet dish only. We need to retain the sweetness instead of losing it too soon.
But sweetness also is repulsive when it is beyond the limits. Perhaps that is the problem. Master however says it differently. We seem to have developed a taste for the peppery that we prefer to
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