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Silence Speaks
and it is a firm and desperate resolve. That is not very difficult. If undertaken in the right way it is perhaps the easiest. Almost every one is eager for it in some way or the other. To speak of myself, I would say that I never felt concerned with it, though to an outer view it may have been a mistake on my part, but this was due to my peculiar nature. I ever remained a blind devotee of Him whom I took to be my everything, and never bothered about what might be right or wrong. Every thing was absorbed in my thought of Him and Him alone. As for the worship of gods and deities, I never stood in need of them nor do I even now. I wanted to secure my approach up to Him, and my end similar to His. Nothing else did I crave for. God had no doubt brought me into existence and had bestowed me with powers and means to go on properly with everything, as it is with everybody. But the very things, having been spoiled by our wrong handling, have become impediments and serve for a veil between the master and the servant. Now all our best efforts for the approach end in a mere tiny chink at the surface of the veil. Going beyond remains forever out of the question.
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