The Master's Reply Is Never What You Expect: Chapter 14

He returns shamefaced, carrying the weight of failure. The sleepless saint Ram Gopal couldn't deliver what Mukunda sought. The mountains offered nothing. So he comes back to Sri Yukteswar, braced for anger, scolding, judgment. But the Master acts as though he left five minutes ago, not days. Let us go to the kitchen and find something to eat. Complete naturalness. As if nothing happened. But something enormous did. Mukunda tries to apologize, and Sri Yukteswar gives an answer that stops time: I would not use you for my own ends. I do not expect anything. This is liberation itself; a Master with no hidden agenda, pure love wearing perfect freedom.