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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. IV Don't throw away the valuable opportunities of human life. Straighten the crookedness of my mind O God! A moral and spiritual recipe to the tongue. A great agricultural metaphor. Falter not in thy initial devotion! but push on steadily until the bliss of self is realised. When the Divine touch-stone is inside you, why need you spread your garments in a beggarly fashion before others! 1. 2. V The identity of God and the spiritual teacher. Process and effects of initiation by the spiritual teacher. 3. The spiritual teacher as de-poisoning the serpent of sense. The serpent of sense as devoured by a group of • spiritons. 4. 5. 6. 7. B A pathetic prayer for the descent of grace from the spiritual teacher. The grace of the spiritual teacher has no parallel. Yogic effects of the grace of the spiritual teacher. VI 1. Metaphysical and axiotogical characteristics of a spiritual teacher. 2. One-pointed devotion to God and teacher will relieve you from thraldom to sense. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The single, dual and triple thorns of life can be burnt only in the fire of the teacher's grace. Spiritual teacher as saviour from calamities. Teacher as saviour from temptations. Spiritual teacher as endowing one with the vision of the full form of the self. Liberation means, the vision of the manifold form of God. CV5