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you just drop your work and hold him and say, `What has happened? You are looking so weak, I thought you were going to fall. Could you not sleep the whole night? Your body seems to have a fever.'"
The gardener said, "But without fever... he will throw me out of service!"
"You don't be worried. That is my guarantee: you will be promoted, you don't be worried. You just do what I am saying."
And the wife of the professor was there and she said, "Yes, he is right. You don't be worried; you just do what he is saying."
And I told him, "Write down on this piece of paper whatever professor Roy says, his exact words."
And so on I went, to the post office nearby where he used to meet the postmaster -- they were great friends, both were Bengalis -- all the way up to the department of philosophy. It was almost one mile. He used to walk; he loved walking.
And I told the peon in front of the department, "You have to just pick him up." He was a wrestler-type of man; I said, "You have just to pick him up and lay him down on the bench."
He said, "What are you saying? Are you crazy or something? I have small children, I have a wife, an old father and mother. This kind of thing.... And what is the purpose?"
I said, "You don't be worried. He will be in such a position that this is what is going to be needed."
He said, "But how have you come to know?"
I said, "You don't be worried, this is beyond you. Later on I will explain everything to you. And it is my guarantee that no harm is going to happen to you."
He said, "But your guarantee does not mean anything -- you may change tomorrow! You are a strange fellow. You are telling the peon to behave in such a way with the professor that it will be almost a wrestling competition -- because if I forcibly put him on the bench, he is going to resist. And if he is going to resist, I am not going to take it either; I am a very angry man. If he hits me or anything, I am going to hit him."
I said, "Whatever happens let it happen, because I know he cannot hit you. He is in a very feverish condition and is not listening to his wife, to his friends, to anybody. He is
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