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esteem and favour". In other words, as he admits, piety is intimately bound up with what the gods like. The discussion comes to a full circle and yet Socrates faces a preliminary hearing on the charge of impiety as history records.
Such being the problem of understanding ‘piety’ we may try to understand the problem by studying the matter in the light of what our beloved Master has graced on this subject. He classified the disciples as:
(a) Selfish;
(b) Fazli;
(c) Ahli;
(d) Devotee; And (e) Murad.
He details their characteristics as follows.
“Selfish disciples are those who want to gain their own ends. Suppose a person comes to know that Shri X is a Mahatma and a devotee of God, he will immediately rush to him with the idea that he would get material benefit by that contact. Such persons who are concerned with worldly matters do not do any work. They join the Satsangh to achieve their selfish ends. They get things done by means of
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