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never have the grace of true spontaneity. The sahajiya, thespontaneous being, exercises a sacred freedom that cannotbe confused <strong>with</strong> impulsiveness not yet permeated by fullconsciousness. It often happens that young adepts allowthemselves impulsive, chaotic acts under the pretext of sacredliberty."Any act that isn't inscribed in the cosmic harmony isonly an impulsive movement, a spasm of the ego. CertainTantric masters say that it's necessary to pass through impulsivenessto exhaust it and to be able to attain spontaneity.They simply see to it that this free impulsiveness doesn'tundermine the life. Social beings have been subjected to somany hazings, so many bans. They have left behind themso many half-achieved, inharmonious acts that impulsivenesscan be a kind of detoxicant for the consciousness. Mymaster often used these exhaustion techniques to bring hisdisciples into contact <strong>with</strong> the empty moment when nothingremains. One day, a scholar, a pandit, came to find him.Instead of talking to him about the void, about letting goof the mental, my master set about arguing <strong>with</strong> him fortwo days and a night. He didn't allow him any breaks, onlyenough time to drink a cup of tea or eat a poori, and evenduring these times he bombarded him <strong>with</strong> arguments andquestions, contradicting all his certainties. The evening ofthe second day, the pandit stopped, exhausted. He experienceda few seconds of emptiness. The next day, teachingbegan. Three weeks of silence, closed in a dark room. Mymaster had a wonderful capacity to adapt himself to eachindividual. He never gave the same teaching twice. I haveseen him fill up an epicure <strong>with</strong> delicacies and talk <strong>with</strong>him about the culinary arts to exhaustion. He did the same114

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