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have suffered in translation, I venture to hope that this authentic and first-hand testimony of the direct vision of God may prove helpful and instructive to the devotee and the philosopher alike.
I have been helped in the work of translation by my daughter, Indira Devi, who has tried to make it as faithful and literal as possible, regard being had t the divergence of Western and Eastern modes of thought.
SATYENDRANATH TAGORE.
BALIGANJ, CALCUTTA,
20th October 1908.
