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makes one holy; it is the giver or source of saintliness, in plain language it is Vairagya (an overpowering sense of detachment from the world). Fire is tapas (fasting and other forms of asceticism). Vairagya and tapas are the two purifiers of the spirit. Hence does the Messiah baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire. The Holy Ghost is also termed the comforter, because though asceticism appears to be austere and forbidding in its outer aspect, it is really accompanied, in its advanced stages, by such joys as cannot even be described in words. The power of asceticism to lead to full knowledge is also implied clearly in the following statements of Jesus :"But the comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all thinge, and bring all things to your remembrances what.
Boever I have said unto you" (John, xiv. 26). " I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot
bear them now. Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth,
is come, he will guide unto all trath” (John, xvi. 13-14). As to whence this knowledge is to arise, we already know that education is a drawing out from witthin in a strictly etymological sense--from e, out, and duco, to lead. In the Gospel according to St. Matthew also we are told : “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candle stick ; and it giveth light anto all that are in the house" (Matt. v. 14-15).
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