"Will you give me the same unconditional love?" He gazed at me with
childlike trust.
"I will love you eternally, Gurudeva!"
"Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions.
Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change.
The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch
of pure love." He added humbly, "If ever you find me falling from
a state of God-realization, please promise to put my head on your
lap and help to bring me back to the Cosmic Beloved we both worship."
He rose then in the gathering darkness and guided me to an inner
room. As we ate mangoes and almond sweetmeats, he unobtrusively
wove into his conversation an intimate knowledge of my nature. I
was awe-struck at the grandeur of his wisdom, exquisitely blended
with an innate humility.
"Do not grieve for your amulet. It has served its purpose." Like
a divine mirror, my guru apparently had caught a reflection of my
whole life.
"The living reality of your presence, Master, is joy beyond any
symbol."
"It is time for a change, inasmuch as you are unhappily situated
in the hermitage."
I had made no references to my life; they now seemed superfluous!
By his natural, unemphatic manner, I understood that he wished no
astonished ejaculations at his clairvoyance.
"You should go back to Calcutta. Why exclude relatives from your
love of humanity?"
His suggestion dismayed me.
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