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Com. — In any house if one be diseased, those in the house will be 

 aware of it, but the distant world knows it not ; so, if ^ivan, 

 who dwells within the Soul, come as a Guru, our disease shall be 

 healed. 



Sum. — This removes the doubt as to the necessity of (^ivan's advent 

 as a Guru. 



(^>. 3. — Can all recognise the Guru thus appearing ? 



Who on this earth will be able to discern such a Dispenser of grace 

 not ever given before ? (43.) 



Com. — He performed the woi-ks of creation, preservation, destruc- 

 tion, and ' veiling ' (Note XIII, (^atti) without any manifest 

 appearance ; but now His work of grace is performed in a way 

 not known before, while He wears a human form as a robe, and 

 thus conceals Himself. This men know not. 



S%im. — Men think of the Guru, who is Civan Himself made manifest, 

 as thouoh He were a mere man like themselves. 



Q. 4. — How is it that inferior souls know not the Guru ? 



Souls that are immersed in falsehood and darkness cannot recognise 

 these two things : the teachings of divine grace and the divine 

 Teacher. (44.) 



Com. — Those who live in the enjoyment of fleeting, worldly enjoy- 

 ments, and whose understandings are veiled by the darkness of 

 AncnKim [Note XV], cannot know the two great truths of the 

 blessedness of mystic Wisdom and of the grace embodied in 

 the Gum, by which it may be reached. 



Sum. — This gives the reason for men's ignorance of the Guru. 



Q. 5. — Is it necessary that He should have a divine form, visible to 

 such as ourselves 1 

 The world does not discern that the bodily form of the Guru is 

 but the cloak assumed to take souls, as beasts are taken by 

 the exhibition of a shape like their own. (45.) 



Com. — It is common in the world to ensnare beasts and birds by 

 exhibiting their own shape as a lure. Here men would dread 



