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Role of Master
Now who may he be who goes beyond this chink? For me at least it was none but my master. Whom should I therefore be indebted to, to God or to my master? To me the answer is quite clear, and I owe every thing to my master alone. How is this debt to be paid off? The only recourse open to me is to serve you all as best as I can. I sincerely wish you all complete emancipation. But where there is the rose the thorn is also there. A seeker of roses is never afraid of thorns. Mahatma Gandhi is said to have once remarked that the way to salvation lies through jail. I too had once expressed a similar view in a letter to my master, that the path of spirituality lies over stony ground and through thorny bushes. I had once been in such a state of extreme trouble and restlessness that I wrote to my master that if such had been the case with any man of worldly interests, he would have preferred to commit suicide. But due to the over-powering influence of my master all this seemed to be pleasant to me. I chose a life of poverty, and the idea of having nothing but salt and bread was very charming to me. It is a matter of pity for me that none perhaps has so far offered me a
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