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Inner Power

The document describes an encounter between a teacher and student walking in the jungle and a tiger following them. The teacher tells the student they have options of dealing with the tiger through fear, fighting, praying, or meditating to influence it with their mind. The teacher enters a meditative state and unites his consciousness with the tiger, transmitting inner calmness and peace, causing the tiger to sense no threat and walk away.

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Inner Power

The document describes an encounter between a teacher and student walking in the jungle and a tiger following them. The teacher tells the student they have options of dealing with the tiger through fear, fighting, praying, or meditating to influence it with their mind. The teacher enters a meditative state and unites his consciousness with the tiger, transmitting inner calmness and peace, causing the tiger to sense no threat and walk away.

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INNER POWER

A teacher and his student were walking from one village to another, when they suddenly
heard a roar behind them. Turning their gaze in the direction of the roar they saw a big tiger
following them. The first thing the student wanted to do was to run away, but as he has been
studying and practicing self-discipline, he was able to halt himself, waiting to see what his
teacher was going to do.

"What shall we do Master?" asked the student.

The teacher looked at the student and answered in a calm voice:

"There are several options. We can fill our minds with paralyzing fear so that we cannot
move, and let the tiger do with us whatever pleases it. We can faint. We can run away, but
then it will run after us. We can fight with it, but physically it is stronger than us."

"We can pray to god to save us. We can choose to influence the tiger with the power of our
mind, if our concentration is strong enough. We can send it love. We can also concentrate
and meditate on our inner power, and on the fact that we are one with the entire universe,
including the tiger, and in this way influence its soul."

"Which option do you choose?"

"You are the Master. You tell me what to do. We haven't much time", responded the student.

The master turned his gaze fearlessly towards the tiger, emptied his mind from all thoughts,
and entered samadhi (a kind of trance). In his consciousness he embraced everything in the
universe including the tiger. In this deep meditation the consciousness of the teacher became
one with consciousness of the tiger.

Meanwhile the student started to shiver with fear, as the tiger was already quite close, ready
to make a leap at them. He was amazed at how his teacher could stay so calm and detached in
the face of danger.

Meanwhile the teacher continued to meditate without fear. After a little while, the tiger
gradually lowered its head and tail and went away.

The student asked his teacher in astonishment, "What did you do?"

"Nothing. I just cleared all thoughts from my mind and united myself in spirit with the tiger.
We became united in peace on the spiritual level. The tiger sensed the inner calmness, peace,
and unity and felt no threat or need to express violence, and so walked away."

"When the mind is silent and calm, its peace is automatically transmitted to everything and
everyone around, influencing them deeply", concluded the teacher.

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