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Even the hot, disorderly, annihilating-natured kerosene getting the love of the lamp becomes upward moving. The frightened, lonely traveller who has lost his way and is surrounded with darkness gets rid of fear on seeing a lamp.
Ghosts are heard carrying torches in their hands in cremation ground, seeing which even the eyes of fearless ones get closed.
Lo, the red flame of the lamp looks like fire, but is not fire, is a light enlightening itself and others, is unflucuating, by looking unblinkingly at which the attention of the sadhaka progressing from grossness to subtleness, gradually getting rid of perturbation gets concentrated in some moments necessarily. Then, then what? Interview with the totality!
Many are the specialties of a lamp, how far should I say! For that there need be a
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