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Devotee: It is not necessary that the saints should mix with people and be helpful to them?

Maharshi: The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not. The realised being does not see the world as different from himself.

Devotee: Thus then, the saint’s realisation leads to the uplift of humanity without the latter being aware of it. Is it so?

Maharshi: Yes. The help is imperceptible but is still there. A saint helps the whole of humanity, unknown to the latter.

Devotee: Would it not be better if he mixed with others?

Maharshi: There are no others to mix with. The Self is the one and only Reality.

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