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Bhagavan said, “Yes, this is very good advice,” and also
slapped his own cheeks, as if in punishment for not having
known what the woman taught then.
Relating the above incident, Bhagavan said that, when
first the old woman began abusing him, he could not
understand how he deserved it and was dumbfounded as to
what offence he could have given to the woman.
This made Mr. T.S. Rajagopal recall an article by one
Miss Souris in a Telugu journal called Bharati. For the benefit
of Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and some others who were
new to it, Bhagavan again related the incident to the merriment
of all of us.
Bhagavan said, “One day the Mauni brought the tapals
(post) as usual. I left the papers and magazines on the couch
and was looking at the letters. After showing the tapals to
me, Mauni left the hall and took the Bharati number with
him, saying he would read it and bring it back. After a little
time he came back, left the magazine on my couch and was
going out. While near the door, he suddenly said, ‘What a
thief is Bhagavan!’ and before I could ask why he said so, he
had gone. I was wondering what I could have done to have
made the Mauni reproach me like that. It sort of rankled in
my mind. And only after I read the article in the Bharati and
came to the very last sentence in it, which was ‘Oh, what a
thief is Bhagavan!’ I could understand the joke.”
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Mr. Kundanlal Mahatani, of Karachi, who has been
staying here for about eight months, asked Bhagavan for direct
upadesa, urging that all the books emphasise that nothing can
be achieved by anybody except with the help of upadesa from
a guru and that though he has read all the directions given by
Bhagavan for Self-enquiry and attaining stillness of mind
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