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I am the Soul
Today I want to place before you my small expectation from you, at the end of this Chaturmas. I had told you on the very first day of Chaturmas, that I wanted a Gurudakshina from you, in the age old Indian tradition of Rishis and Munis.
Not in reciprocation of my serving you such a wonderful spiritual treatise, but as a fruit of our daily mantra – 'I am the Soul'. We have everyday contemplated on 'I am the soul for ten minutes after the discourse, so that all of you may awaken the same goal within you. Let there be an awareness in your minds, let this call “I am the soul be echoing in every pore on you. Please try! I only desire that you experience 'I am the soul'. Those who make a tremendous effort - purushartha, will certainly be successful.
That is all! I close this discourse with a demand for gurudakshina in the form of your experiencing "I am the soul'.
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