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threshold of a spiritual realization : each of its children is nurtured by it all from the cradle.

Now, to this culture, was associated that of chivalry and revolution.

A kind of epic melodrama sought then to unfold, implicating as many as it could, with all the requisite elements, such as secrecy, heroism, pledges of allegiance, the ability to discern the enemy under any disguise – and, inevitably, the treasons and the victims. With his arbitrary intervention, S. introduced and encouraged a divisive approach that generated in the collective dynamics, for many years to come, the most pernicious effects.

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And so, through the respective logics of the two conflicts – between S. and the ashram on the one hand and between the owners and the residents on the other – the alignments and the camps competed for influence and all attempt at neutrality, conciliation or even at individual independence became most suspect. And yet, the physical situation of the ground demanded, rather than words and rhetoric, a practical resolution open to the future.

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At the beginning of this century He had known and been able to gather and unite energies in the name of sovereign India, the great Mother, Bharat Mata, and of Her freedom to choose and determine Her own paths.

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