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Master further states “Now if somehow, I too get affected by the colours of the Holi, then my reply to it would be part pheasant and part partridge, a mixture of coherence and incoherence like that of a drunkard.” “... if we have linked ourselves to the whole (ultimate) then certainly the same view should appear before vision. It therefore follows that if we get ourselves linked to the ultimate then the colour of the same ultimate shall pari-passu prevail in us and if per chance we become unaware of that link by maintaining it repeatedly then please tell me what would be your form or share thereafter? The same state of mergence which we are in search of? What a good thing it would be if we learn this lesson from Holi.”
It may be mentioned that there is a story relating to the festival Holi. It appears that the legendary Hiranyakasipu had a sister by name Holika. She has a siddhi by which she can sit on fire and remain unburnt. As a part of the various
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