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Looking at it from a different angle we can say this. Let us look at the aspect of serving the Master. We have willingly accepted to serve. When the abhyasis come, do you feel like receiving them with the warmth that you will receive a Master, or you are just consider them as unnecessary people who are coming and disturbing you? Please introspect. Not always you consider you are receiving the Master, unless you are telling a falsehood. Truth is many times we feel ‘this fellow is a nuisance who has come’, ‘what is the great urgency of this fellow has got’. These kinds of feelings come. I am only sharing what I personally feel, many times I have felt it and that is what I say that is the slippery zone. Instead of recognizing him as the Master who is coming to you, because every person has to be accepted as the Master, correct? As far as philosophy goes it sounds very good, but do we actually do it? You are happy with your condition, therefore you do not like that person. This is nothing new to us, every saint has felt it. There will be one saint, he will be in his own state of mind. There will one more coming to him, the one who is coming is also a saint. The first one says, ‘why did you come to me, don’t
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