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ingly sick and I decided to induce vomiting to get rid of it. I was able to do this through my yogic training although I felt very weakened afterward.
Meanwhile, my medical friend suspected that something was wrong with the medicine I had taken and he tested it.
"Guruji," he said, "This medicine is not vach, it is yatsnabh!"
If I had not been able to vomit as I had, I would have died. And although my clairvoyant experiences were good, they were not complete because my physical body had been poisoned.
My experience reminded me of the difference between Socrates, the great western philosopher of reason and knowledge, and Mira, a devotee of Lord Krishna, the Indian God of love and faith. Whereas Socrates drank the poison juices from the hemlock tree, and died, Mira drank a poisoned drink given to her by her spiteful father-in-law for worshipping Lord Krishna more than her husband, and did not die. Mira changed the poison into a nectar of love through her complete devotion to and faith in Lord Krishna.
Just as Mira overcame the effect of a poison so did I through my faith in the power of universal love and consciousness. The only difference was the object of our love and devotion. Everyone has this same potentiality or power.
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