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THREE DAYS IN CALCUTTA
This story is concerned with a variety of subjects: the meaning of religion, karma, precognition, and spiritual communication. Like many of Guruji's stories, it is autobiographical and it goes beyond the viewpoint of common sense materialism, to the psychic and metaphysical dimensions of reality.
n nce I was staying in Calcutta, India and I wanted
U to leave Calcutta because of the extreme heat. I submitted my request to the secretary of the Jain society, Jai Suphal Bhai. Although Jai Suphal Bhai was a very popular, intelligent and well-educated young man, he was strict to the point of fanaticism about the meaning of religion. His rather dogmatic interpretation of the purpose of Jainism caused some problems between us.
Anyway, when I submitted my request to leave Calcutta, he denied my request on the ground that I had to remain in Calcutta for three more days. When I asked him, "Why three more days?" he merely replied that there were some people who had come to see me. And indeed there were; so I had no choice but to remain in Calcutta, since my first commitment is to serve humanity. The same day of my conversation with the secretary about leaving Calcutta, the secretary walked home along
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