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Give me knowledge and give me now,
Thou art my all in all, enou !
He had gladly made a willing sacrifice of everything, even of the affections of the heart
A large stream of water flowed out before him, azure and crystal clear, so still and calm that he could see the ground below the pool 'A seed' was starting in the slime He possessed a faculty of a sort of double-see, within and without He perceived that the life, joy, love, which he had had before was only a husk of that love seed which was to burst out of it, and the hard crust of lust to shoot up into the lotus of frution A beam of pellucid light ran up from the splitting seed and a stem winding round it, the knots tremulously shining where they touched The unearthly plant was crowned with a thousand-petalled lotus flower He was one with it, he learned the lesson that one should generously give out oneself for others as that sweetscented 'spendthrift' It was only for a splt moment that he caught the "darshana" or the V1510n Beatific of his Atmadev, the term by which he loves to designate one's Real Self And then there was a complete black-out
When he returned to the earth, earthy' after the long-protracted fainting spell, he could not recognise Loss of the old familiar faces His memory was memory gone The doctor advised that he should be given company most of the time This would perhaps help him recall old impressions
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