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has to pray and ask for the strength (shakti; energy). The pudgal automatically gives you the energy for the knowledge of agnan, just like that, but for Gnan, you do not receive that kind of energy.
You continuously and spontaneously receive pudgal shakti (energy from the non-Self complex) for things such as, asatya (untruth), chori (stealing), abrahmacharya (sexuality), etc. Against that, on the other hand, for the satya (truth), brahmacharya (celibacy) one has to ask for the energy. After you know through Gnan-darshan (knowledge-vision), if you ask for energy with faith and conviction, you will receive it. It is agnan (ignorance) that will take you down, and for that the body's energies will always keep flowing. Gnan is what will raise you up, and carry you higher. Gnan opposes the pudgals tendencies (to bring you down) and therefore you have to ask for the energy so that you can go higher.
Energy Attained Through Prayer
Questioner: In order to rise, how do we ask for energy and whom do we ask?
Dadashri: From your own Shuddhatma (pure Soul); or the Gnani Purush you can ask for energy (shakti), and if you have not attained Self-realization, then you can ask your guru, the idol of your deity, or whomever you believe in, to grant you the energy. You should make a list of all the faults that you see in yourself and then ask for energy. Through gnan (knowledge) and faith (shraddha) you have to decide that something is wrong, and that it is indeed a wrong thing. Do pratikraman for it and ask the Gnani Purush for the energy to never do it again, and it (the wrong) will go away.
The larger ‘knots' (of karma) can be dissolved through samayik (meditative introspection as the Self ‘seeing the self) and smaller faults can be removed through prayers. Anything
