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In fact, the mystic and the drug addict do not differ in degrees but in kind. Prof. Daya Krishna seems to adopt the difference between the two as the difference of degrees and not of kind. That the mystic keep a minimal relationship to the world of objects does not, as a matter or fact, support the withdrawal activity of the mystic. As a criterion of withdrawal, is he thinking in terms of the number of objects or in terms of their significance? The mystic may occupy himself with the activity of writing for which he withdraws from all those things which obstruct his work. Will it be called a withdrawal from the world of the other? Or will it be the pursuit of active values in sincere earnestness?
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