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Chapter II
The Disciple addresses 2
his Guru
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341 9777 They uf, 34T ! BET ! 340577 1197811 Aho ! Aho ! sti sadguru, karunasindhu apara, Aa pamara para prabhu karyo, aho ! aho ! upakara. 124 Thanks ! the Holy True Teacher, Unfathomable ocean of compassion, I'm highly obliged, Oh ! good Teacher, The pupil poor has no expression. 124
O, my great enlightened Guru, the unfathomable ocean of infinite compassion, the more I think of your experience and power, the more submissively do I fall in your feet, the more obliged I feel to you for your immense favour to me though undeserving of it. You had no selfish motive in enlightening me and still you took all the troubles for me. Your only interest in enlightening me is that any Soul in the world may obtain Liberation by your teachings. Such spiritual saviours are few and far between. What a great surpirse it is that though you can lead the whole world you show your humility in your readiness to be the disciple of anybody in the world. You address anyone without any sense of pride or any expectation of receiving worship. You are the ocean of compassion. The enlightened Souls like you continue to live only for two purposes, (1) To enjoy or suffer the fruits of their past actions and (2) for the spiritual uplift of the world at large. For these two reasons they are the embodiment
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