FINAL ABSORPTION IN JAGANNATH

The purposes for which he kept himself in his physical
organism were from his view-point fully accomplished, and
he had no need for remaining here any longer. Hence while
the Master's disciples were making arrangements for his
departure to Calcutta, the Master's Master was arranging
from behind the scene to take him wholly into Himself.

Every bit of the life of Vijaykrishna was a lesson to'
spiritual aspirants ; the mode of his taking leave of it
was no less so. The spiritual influence which Vijaykrishna,
the embodiment of Love and Devotion, exercised upon
the moral, social and religious life of all classes of people
overshadowed the position and prestige and authority of
some individuals who had so long been exploiting the blind
credulity and the moral cowardice of the weak-minded
people, and they were not well-disposed towards him.
The Divine Spirit that comes down to purify the moral
and spiritual atmosphere of the human society naturally
rouses the fear, jealousy and envy of the evil spirits, the
Asuric powers, which the Lord in His sportive delight
creates from His own May a and allows to play their'
anti-Divine parts in the field of His self-expression in this
world and to serve as the dark background of the glorious
manifestations of His Divinity. The Lord takes pleasure,
sometimes in destroying them by the show of His superior
powers, sometimes in winning them over by the show of
His love and beauty and converting them into instruments
for the propagation of the spiritual ideals, and sometimes-
in outwardly accepting defeat in their hands by the show
of His voluntary self-limitation and putting them in their
true colours before the eyes of the Humanity.

When the time for the Master's departure from the
stage of visible activities arrived, a devilish impulse
possessed the minds of those evil-eyed individuals (of

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