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the right guidance. Therefore access to a true Guru should be considered as unprecedented. If one comes in contact with such a Guru, he should surrender to him with all his energy and stay in total obedience to him. Physical, vocal, and mental are the three faculties with which one can endeavor for gaining anything. The true endeavor consists of exercising all these faculties in staying obedient to the Guru.
The worldly soul has stayed ignorant of the path of liberation since infinite time. Such ignorance can be equated to darkness. As Shrimad wrote (Vachanämrut #211), "If darkness is divided into various grades, none of them can resemble the light." Similarly none of the concepts of the worldly soul, which has been groping in the dark, can be true or close to the truth. Hence it cannot get to the path of liberation by its own efforts. The self-realized Guru should guide it. That can happen only by surrendering to a true Guru and by carrying out all his commands, explicit as well as implicit.
એક હોય ત્રણ કાળમાં, પરમારથનો પંથ; પ્રેરે તે પરમાર્થને, તે વ્યવહાર સમંત.
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Ek Hoy Tran Kälamän, Paramärathano Panth; Prere Te Paramärthane, Te Vyavahär Samant.
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