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Role of Abhyasi
him why he took so much time to learn the small line. The boy replied meekly that he could not learn to adopt it in the normal routine of his life till then.
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IDOLATRY
You have written in your letter about five types of idols, defining each of them. I am giving you one more kind of idolatry pointed out by my master. He said that if a man is a slave of his habits he is also an idolater. I go on further to say that if we suppose anything and it does not exist, that is also idolatry. If a man loves his family, children and so on, he is also an idolater. Any attachment towards material things is idolatry. How can it be abolished altogether? It is possible only when the thought does not take any such impressions. If it comes, it is thrown back automatically. But such is the case after a long reach. We should avoid the worship of concrete things so that we may rise above and catch it. There are men who, even if any practical hint for realisation be given, will not leave idolatry of the rocky type. There are a few examples of abhyasis with me to
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