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into Harmony  You seem to be fulfilling two roles: an outer one
in which you provoke and expose the structure of our society,
and a more intimate one in which you encourage your disciples
towards the ultimate. Could you please comment?  Existence
consists of both: the inner and the outer. Unfortunately, for
centuries the inner and the outer have been thought to be
opposed to each other. They are not.  The teaching which
proposes that the inner and the outer are opposed has caused a
tremendous tension in man - because man is a miniature
existence, a miniature cosmos. Whatever exists in man also
exists on a wider scale in existence, and vice versa. If man can
be understood in his totality, you have understood the whole.
The function of the master is to bring the inner and outer into
a harmony: to create opposition between them is poisoning you.
They are not opposed, they are one - two sid