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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:
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another great Bengali who can be looked upon as a model of the Bengali race. He
has shown the genius of the Bengalis in quite an unusual field. His name is
Shyamakanta, later on known as So'ham Swami.<o:p></o:p></p>

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speak of the extraordinary capacity of Shyamakanta and not of So'ham Swami. In
fact, for the achievement he attained in the domain of physical strength, he
deserves nothing short of the term genius. <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>In<b> </b></span>this field, too, a Bengali was able to show his unique
superiority. His strength was not merely physical strength. It was not the
result of any physical culture. <span class=GramE>For there was a peculiar
magic, almost a mantric power in his physical strength and capabilities.</span>
He could curb and control wild lions and tigers in the twinkling of an eye, not
solely by physical strength but by something else as well. I do not refer to
his moral force, though there were in him the qualities of calmness, courage
and self-confidence beyond measure, which further enhanced his physical
strength. I speak of a unique trait of his physical strength itself. For, it
was as though his strength was derived more from his marrow than from his
bones, more from his blood than from his muscles, more from his nerves than
from his tendons. The well-nourished marrow, the vigour of blood and the
firmness of nerves kept up a healthy, harmonious, powerful and unhampered
current of vitality, and this current was the perennial fount of Shyamakanta's
physical strength. His strength was not like the power of a machine. There was
in it a natural <span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-family:
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class=GramE>nate</span> </span></p>

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<span class=SpellE>liveliness and an irresistible movement of
nature itself, so to speak. Wild and ferocious animals used to crouch at his
feet, awed by the current of his dynamic vitality. They felt that he was their
Lord, their King.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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was able to invoke and retain in his body the physical strength of the
Universal Nature by establishing a union: the identity between his own
strength and that of the Universal Nature. Perhaps the realisation of this physical
identity – 'I am <span class=GramE>That</span>' – in the end raised him into
the realisation of the Transcendental Identity.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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