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 THE BHAKTA II wild simplicity of the infinite expanse of his own self, he seems in his verse almost insane But his abundant childlike carelessness is balanced well in the wisdom of Self-realization The Divine mind directs his hands and feet, his impulses seem omniscient in relation to the exact fitness with the general schemes of things His response is accurate and timely His mind is informed of God's own sympathy It talks with stars, drinks wine with flowers and "exchanges his turban "l with the red poppies. It is he who has torn asunder the veils of conventional lies, half-truths, compromise, and lusts of all kinds He is God, who has driven man into the street and occupied the Temple of the human body as an ever new Palace of Life. The Disciple's eye is " love-dyed” and it is tlus ever fresh, ever new passion that says all is Divine. The intoxication of Absolute Knowledge is the same as the intoxication of Absolute Passion. The soul, like a dew drop swinging on a strand of the cobweb of Màyê, realizes its own share of the Absolute Balance in the sunshine of its own song. The Disciple is unwilling to let himself slip even an hair's breadth from the supreme state of life, for here he is at one with God, he is God. And why should he go estray? Man is God, and to feel this is the supreme moment. This sublime repose of Self in Self sets an eternal standard in the bosom by which to judge things and men, literature and religion. The Life-givers who appreciate the glint of crystals in the glory of His Name, consider everything from this standpoint; they call things “heavy" or " light," "false" or In the Punjab by "exchanging torbans' strangers become brothers for all life,
 * love-dyed ” eye that sees everything with the