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omnipervasive capacity. Distance or time or condition do not seem to impose any limits on his capacity for transmission. This is my own humble experience about him. And in my work I haven't found any restrictions on this consciousness. Thirdly, you must know that this guide is God Himself who has condescended to take you up. And that is why he can take you to God. The God alone is capable of leading one to God. But don't impose any strain upon your consciousness, at the beginning at any rate. There is no question of your immediately being told 'well your guide is a God, and you must worship him as a God'. Please, your guide is a guide he may be a God, but use him as a guide. Now if you can take that practical attitude without a metaphysical fear'complex about God, His sovereignty, omnipotence, creatorship and so on, you have a friendliness that comes with God, an associateship with him, a fellowship with God, and that makes it easy for you. There is no imposition of any doctrine on you, or dogma. There is only one demand, do you desire the Ultimate? Do you wish to get rid of your tensions? Would you like to evolve into a greater and a higher life? Are you willing for the adventure and experience into infinity? If you can answer them in the affirmative it is more easy for you to attain the Ultimate.
Here there is no need for us to criticise others, for all of them are, in one sense, included within us. But there are obviously features in our practical life, or in our traditions, or our habits and modes of thinking that prevent us from accepting simplicity. We think the simple cannot be true. We think that which is had cheaply cannot be worthwhile. My Master is anxious that he should be both simple and cheap, in this sense that anybody can come to him, no demands are made on him; in fact I have known that he has been anxious to help others and say 'well these things do not prevent me from helping you'. So he has offered his own services many times, he has been free with his money and with his time, trying to go and help people who are in need of him. That shows not merely a natural generosity but an intention to show that God, as in Tagore's poetry, can work anywhere. It is only the proud scholar that is afraid of moving anywhere. And since he holds that he is no scholar but a practical man, he is available to one and all. That makes it difficult for many people to accept him as really a person capable of leading us to the Ultimate. But since we are discerning people, and God has trained us in the ways of simplicity, to a certain extent, we in India are able