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These ashrams and monasteries are communities where the individual is submerged, where he is supposed to abandon his own will in favour of God's will, or rather, and actually, in favour of God's representative--the guru of the ashram, the abbot of the monastery.

-- Notebooks Category 3: Relax and Retreat > Chapter 4 : Retreat Centres > # 181