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Role of Master
I therefore try to thrust into them what seems best in each case, even without their care or co-operation. In one or two cases the abhyasi has gone so far as to blame me for not giving him higher approaches all at once. Can such a thing ever be expected anywhere else? Certainly not, I am sure. Why then is it so here? It may perhaps be due to my being over- indulgent in this respect. How far it can be justified, I leave it to your own judgement. In this connection I know of an instance which I quote here. A great saint once being deeply impressed by the devoted services of one of his disciples bestowed upon him his full grace all at once, transforming him completely like his own self. The result was that by the time the transmission was over the man began to breathe his last. Now suppose, by the Master's grace, I have that power and I may even exercise it with all the necessary precautions to safeguard the abhyasi‟s life, it will then be a matter of a second no doubt; but of what avail shall it be to him, as the state thus thrust in will not be cognizable to him, since he has till then been accustomed to the conditions of the lower plane only. Consequently he
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