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My acceptance of Master as a guru also is because of this example. First time I went to Shajahanpur, he asked me to go to inside his room, meditation room. I was lazy and was sitting down. In the meanwhile, Babuji Maharaj came and said ‘I have kept hot water in the bathroom and you can go and take bath’. It was a shock to me, his going to put the hot water there. The service done by such people is service. People will laugh if we say our service is service.
An incident in Swami Vivekananda’s life is depicted in the game of life here to understand the condition of Jeevan Mukta. In 1898 a severe plague broke out in Calcutta, India causing many deaths. At that time, no one volunteered for service, as they were afraid of getting infected. Swamiji not bothering about him self, cleaned the streets of Calcutta of the dead rats and helped in controlling the epidemic. This gesture of Swamiji shows the condition of liberation from Self.
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