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thinking too much of yourself. Here is neither crow nor crane." He was astonished; still he had to wait. At last a woman came, and he fell at her feet and said :-“ Mother, how did you, know that ?” She said :-"My boy, I do not know your Yoga or your practices. I am a common every day woman, but I made you wait because my husband is ill, and I was nursing him; and that was my duty. All my life I have struggled to do my duty. As a daughter, when I was unmarried, I did my duty; and now, when I am married, I still do my duty; that is all the Yoga I practice, and by doing my duty I have become illumined; thus I could read your thoughts and what you had done in the forest. But if you want to know something higher than this, go to such and such a town and to the market, and there you will find a butcher; and he will tell you some thing that you will be very glad to learn.". The Sannyasin thought : "Why should I go to that town and to a butcher!” (Butchers are the lowest class in our country ;- they are called
