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 the feet of the Master in the Grove of Jetavana near Sravasti?"

"I assuredly hope to do so, O Reverend One; why dost thou ask me?"

"Then, when thou dost sit at the feet of the Master, what dost thou think, my friend—is the physical form which thou wilt then see, which thou wilt be able to touch with thy hand—is that the Perfect One, dost thou look upon it as such?"

"I do not, O Reverend One."

"Perhaps, then, when the Master speaks to thee … the mind that then reveals itself, with its sensations, perceptions, ideas, is the Perfect One—dost thou so look upon it?"

"I do not, O Reverend One."

"Then it may be, my friend, that the body and the mind taken together are the Perfect One."

"I do not look upon them in that light, O Reverend One."

"Dost thou think, then, that the Perfect One exists apart from his body or from his mind, or mayhap from both? Is that thy view, my friend?"

"He is in so far apart from them, that his being is not fully comprehended in these elements."

"What elements or powers hast thou then, my friend, apart from those of the body with all its qualities of which we have become aware through the senses, and apart from those of the mind with all its sensations, perceptions, and ideas—what powers hast thou beyond these, by means of which thou canst fully apprehend what thou hast not yet apprehended in the being of the Perfect One?"

"Such further powers, O Reverend One, I must acknowledge I do not possess"