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I am the Soul
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सेवे सद्गुरुचरणने, त्यागी दई निजपक्ष
He has placed a pre-condition. Whenever Srimadji makes such statements, he puts the condition first. O Brother! It isn't that you will get everything just by itself. This isn't like a morsel in your hand. It is a star in the sky! The morsel in hand easily gets to your mouth, but does the Star? Try reaching for it, only then you will realise how difficult it is.
Srimadji has placed the condition, that no doubt you serve at the feet of the Sadguru, but it 75798?! Give up your own beliefs, obstinacy, laxity, and then offer yourself at the feet of your Guru. If you insist upon, living as per my desire, my thoughts, my beliefs' you will not be benefited. How can you, when you salute the Guru, not once, not thrice but 108 times and yet insist on your own bullheadedness?
For achieving progress, you have to give up your attitude of trying to push your delusions such as “my path alone leads to liberation', ‘only the religious rituals that I perform can lead to moksa'. And for this reason you have to search for and identify a Sadguru.
Search - research goes on aplenty. But of what? Of the inanimate world. Science has forged far ahead. It has discovered so many things. It has broken down every inanimate thing and measured it up. It has harnessed the powers that reside within such things. It has even put those powers to use in day-to-day life. You read in the magazines daily and are pleased that science has taken great strides and has offered you new gadgets. Aha! What progress! Calculators! Computers! Press a button and your accounts are ready! No need to bother your brain about remembering anything. Just feed the computer, press the button and lo! It is recorded! You get flattered seeing all this. Aha! My elders never had all this and look what all we have!
But have you ever thought that these gadgets dull your brains? Brain-power is honed only with use, and loses its edge
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