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"Those who have been awakened are beyond sin and virtue. They see that it is God who does everything. In a certain place there was a monastery. The monks there went begging for alms every day. Once, on his rounds, one of them saw a landlord beating a man cruelly. He was a kind-hearted monk; he came between them and begged the landlord to leave off. The landlord was in a towering rage, and he vented all his fury on the monk. He beat him so badly that the monk fell senseless. Someone went and told the monastery, 'The landlord has beaten one of your monks badly.' The monks ran out and found him lying unconscious! Then five of them together lifted him, carried him into the monastery and laid him in a room. The monk lay senseless, the monks sat round him in distress, and some fanned him. Someone said, 'Let's try a little milk on his lips.' While they were trickling it in, he revived. He opened his eyes and began to look about. One of them said, 'Let me see whether he is in his senses, whether he knows people or not.' So he shouted to the monk, 'Maharaj! Who is giving you milk?' Faintly the monk replied, 'Brother, the One who struck me is the One feeding me milk.'