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intestines. How can I add another thing?
“The doctor explains, 'Yes, but when you take my medication, it works like this. Along with the sticky residue, the medication itself is flushed out. Nothing will remain and you will feel free.'
“The guru is your medication. He helps you remove your debris! Once it is gone, you are no longer stuck to him either!"
Munishree laughed.
How light he is, my Master, how down to earth! He takes the part of a guru, but he remains free like air, unattached to the role he is playing. This lightheartedness was evident on many occasions.
Once the Master asked his student to walk on his back, for his muscles were sore.
“How can I walk on my teacher? It is an act of irreverence!" Munishree exclaimed.
The Master was amused, "Yes, but not to obey teacher is also an act of irreverence! After all, it is the need of the body for massage, not the claim of the ego for false respect!”
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The departure of his loved ones remained foremost in Munishree's mind. The uncertainty he felt at the prospect of the departure of his father and his master disturbed his peace and pressed him to meditate often on the very thing of which he was afraid.
The Achārya gave many ways to meditate on this. Once he told him to go into another room and meditate for twentyfour minutes on his teacher. When the time was over, he asked him, "Well, where was your teacher while you were meditating?
"You were in another room!"
“Yes, departure is nothing but a change of rooms. When I go, it will be a little ahead of you. One goes first, the other follows: in the end, they meet. Where can we souls go? The whole universe is meant for our evolution."
Sometimes his master would take him to the temple and they would meditate together on the symbolic meaning of a candle.
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