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In the posture of modesty the potter says"This is all the grace of ascetics and saints, I am only a small servant absorbed in their service, nothing else."
And
Hearing the wishes of the earth everyone along with the pitcher looked at the potter with eyes of gratitude.
attracts everyone's attention towards the detached ascetic sitting at some distance
under a tree
on a stone slab,
.... that at once
respectfully everyone going round
offers obeisance in the lotus feet of the
reverend-feet.
The feet are consecrated,
the water of the consecration is put on the
head.
Then,
everyone awaits the Guru's grace like a cataka (a bird).
On passing of some moments the, pleasant mouth of Gurudeva begins to distribute the prasada, the hand of fearlessness rises which signifies
484 Silent Soil
