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in the morning. He was worshipping Kali: "Jai Kali! Victory to Kali!"
I entered the temple and by his side I also started saying, "Victory to Kali! Jai Kali!"
He looked at me, and he said, "You are also a worshipper of Kali?"
I said, "I have always been a worshipper of Kali. You are the only man in this whole city who knows what real truth is." He looked at me -- everybody thought that he was a little cracked, a crackpot -- and I said, "You are the only religious man in this irreligious city."
He said, "Strange that only you recognized me. We are brothers in faith." He hugged me.
I said, "Don't kill me!" -- because he had been a wrestler. The only safety was his belly: he could not pull me closer than his belly. There was some distance, so I was safe.
He said, "What do you want? What have you come for?"
I said, "I want simply to sit at your feet and learn."
He said, "Come to the office. And because you have recognized me, I also recognize you. I will give you full freeship" -- an extra scholarship which is under the power of the principal. "And whatever you need -- accommodation in the hostel, free food ..."
I said, "Everything."
But just the second day the difficulty arose. The professor of philosophy went to him and he said, "You have created trouble for me. That young man is difficult and impossible, and he creates such arguments that the whole class laughs and I feel very embarrassed. Perhaps he is right, but that is not the point. The point is my prestige. If I lose my prestige, nobody is going to listen to me."
The principal called me. With great respect he called me close to him, pulled up a chair, told me to sit down, and he said, "These people will not understand us. They are utterly blind. I cannot expel you as others have done, so some other way has to be found. I thought that I will give you a full one hundred percent attendance if you don't come to the college."
I said, "Great. That suits me." So I never went to the college; but I used to go once in a while at five o'clock just to give that man a little juice.
When I passed and graduated from his college, I told
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