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as well as the master's wife and sons, enjoy certain privileges within
the spiritual family. They are considered to form the foremost "conti-
nuum", the nucleus of the spiritual family when all of them are devoted
to the Saiva tantric path (TA, XXVIII, 211-212).
In his turn, the disciple is seen as the embodiment
of the "inquiring" self-consciousness which is a phase in the evolution
of phenomenalized thinking. He represents the moment when consciousness
begins to be aware of its role in the universe. The disciple's state
of mind therefore revolves upon the great existential problems. He is
comprised (anunmilita) in the outside evolution whose sense he tries to
discover (TA, I, 253-255). Thus, the disciple-master relationship could
be characterized as the rapport between question and its answer (SVT,
VIII, 31 b-32a).
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Pure wisdom which guides the disciple by Para-
mesvara's will to find an answer to his own existence, becomes "good
reason" in the disciple's mind. it helps him to follow the right way
even though, by chance, he has met a bad master (TA, IV, 33-34). The
disciple's desire for true knowledge is due to a diminishment of powers
keeping him in bondage. "He who is penetrated by Rudra's power, desiring
by Siva's will to go to a good master, is guided (by Him) in order to
realize freedom and fruition" (MV, I, 44). The "good reason" gives rise
in the disciple to the ability of becoming aware in time of the true
capacity of his master and, if the preceptor is not the one for whom
he was looking, he will seek another.
The master, like a tantric scripture, must be