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Role of Master
whereas my path, as luck would have it, lies through dirt and filth, where one would easily develop nausea had there not been the supreme Divine force to protect him all through. Such is my world, where I am to be, so sadly lacking in peace, though on the other hand I wish you all to abide in peace. This is in short what I have in store for myself — going about with a rent-up heart, looking only at filthy drains and ditches. I am so much engrossed in this state that it is hard for me to get out. In other words, it has become the primary object of my life. My master, once commenting upon my condition had remarked that the higher a man goes, the greater shall be the lowness in his view. But after all this is the greatest boon, rarely bestowed upon man even in the course of ages.
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DUTY
People must get awakened to the sense of duty. I undertake to attend to my part of the duty while they should look to their own. But the practice must be supplemented with the feelings of love and
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