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sermons. Suddenly among the crowd, a young fellow came to him and blew twice or thrice on his head. All the people present there were startled to see it. They caught the young fellow and began beating him. Saint Bhikhaji told them to free him. People asked, “What are you saying, Sir?” The saint said, “Whatever happened, has happened, you please leave him free.” But the crowd shouted that the young fellow had beaten him, so they would teach him a lesson. Then the saint told that the young fellow had come to become his disciple but he wanted to test him from all the aspects and he tested him properly whether he was able to become his preceptor or not. The saint further said, “We check an earthen pot of few rupees while purchasing it in the market then why we should not test a person to whom we are going to make our preceptor. It is also not an easy task to make a preceptor of us. The young fellow has done nothing wrong in testing my capabilities for being his preceptor."
This is a test. A test of a saint, a test of balanced state of heart and head, a test of positivity and a test of toleration power.
The next thing to live tension free life is to trust in the arrangements of nature and its creator. The deeds of a person are not everything. The nature makes every required arrangement and the nature of nature is changeable. Here changes occur to the seasons, the weathers, the days and the nights, the loss and the profit etc. Incidence and co-incidence, life and death, all get changed. Nothing such is there in the world that does not change. There is a famous temple in Kolkata. It is one of the visiting places of Kolkata. A millionaire got it built. Every thing of this temple is built of imported material. It is said about that millionaire that whenever he got legal advisers for his any legal suits in courts, he used to give diamonds to the
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