CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
 
 

THE PHYSICAL FORM OF THE MASTER






    WE read of peculiarities in the physical form of a perfect Master. Physically, too, he suffers from no deformity and has no weaknesses in him. His gait is full of grace and dignity. His eyes shine like those of a lion. He has a broad forehead, a mark of a lotus on his feet, and generally a black mole on his brilliantly luminous face.
    Hafiz, a great Sufi poet of Shiraz, tells us:

         If that beauty of Shiraz (the Master) were to take charge of
          my wandering mind, I would throw away both the worlds
          (earth and heaven) at the altar of the wonderful mole on His Face.



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