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there is a long pause to allow listeners to remain in a meditation.
At 8 o'clock, the instruments are put away. Everyone waits in a receptive mood. Those who come for the first time relax and look about. Some people they see with eyes closed; others with eyes open. There may be a feeling of strangeness, of wonder.
Gurudev steps lightly through the audience and sits down gracefully on a small folding chair on a raised dais, tucking his feet beneath him. His eyes sweep across the room. As he raises his hands in "Namaste" to all, people return his greeting. He gazes into a focal point in mid-air, concentrates his energy, Cand closes his eyes. As everyone shares in a few minutes of fo silence, he draws the warp and woof of people's innermost thoughts, dreams, aspirations, and anxieties into his awareness. These become the threads he will weave into the tapestry of his talk.
State Gurudev does not believe in short cuts. To free oneself from unhappiness, possessiveness, and pain is not "instant
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