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when lightning is present. If lightning is not present they will not react. Still lightning does not take any part in it, lightning does not get involved in bringing hydrogen and oxygen together -- only its presence.... Scientists call this kind of presence a catalytic agent.
The master is a catalytic agent. He doesn't do anything but without his presence nothing will happen. In his presence something happens, although he doesn't do anything. Just his presence... understand it like this: his energy surrounds you. Engulfed in this energy field, strength arises in you -- the strength is yours. Songs start exploding -- the songs are yours. Declarations start to happen -- the declarations are yours. But without the presence of the master perhaps they would not happen.
The presence of Ashtavakra worked as a catalytic agent. Janak must have been reminded of his forgotten home seeing Ashtavakra's gentle, silent, highest state. Looking deep into those eyes, seeing that infinite expanse he must have recalled his own lost and forgotten potential. Hearing Ashtavakra's words -- soaked in truth, soaked in experience -- his own taste must have been aroused.
I have heard about a man who raised a lion as a pet. He brought it home it was a tiny cub whose eyes were yet to open. The lion had never eaten meat, had never tasted blood. He was a vegetarian lion. He ate vegetables and bread. He didn't have any idea... He had no reason to know. But one day the man was sitting in his chair when he scratched his leg and a little blood oozed out. The lion was sitting nearby. Sitting there he licked up the blood with his tongue. It was enough! In one moment, he changed. The lion roared. There was violence in that roar. Until then he was a perfect Jaina -- suddenly he became a lion. Until then he was a vegetarian, and he made only the sounds of a pure vegetarian. Although he still had not not eaten any meat -- only tasting a few drops of blood -- but he was reminded. The dormant capacity of being a lion that had been sleeping in every cell awoke. Something woke up. Something started stretching its limbs. The one who was asleep opened his eyes. He stood up growling. Soon
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