28. Narsi Mehta, the Gujarati saint, while singing holy songs, says, "My Lord, what sin have I committed, that I should feel sleepy even while I praise your name?" But was it Narsi Mehta that felt sleepy? No, it was those who listened to him. 

But Narsi Mehta asked this question identifying himself with his listeners. This was the state of his being. This is the state of all seers. In this state, it will appear to one that all the sins and all the virtuous actions of the world take place through one. And that is what the seer would say too. Does not the rishi say, "Many things that ought not to be done, I have done, I am doing, I shall do?" When this state of being is achieved, the soul begins to soar like a bird leaving the earth behind.

29. The seer has a state of activity corresponding to this state of being. What would the seer do spontaneously? Whatever he does will only be saattvik. Though he is still held within the limits of the human frame, his whole body and all his senses have become saattvik; and so all his action can only be saattvik. From the practical point of view, the ultimate perfection of the saattvik nature will be found in his actions. 

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