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with disuse. Don't you feel that such gadgets destroy the power of the humans?
What our elders could calculate orally, today a student of Commerce takes a pen and paper to do. Ask him! Does he know how much 25 times 25 makes? He wouldn't be able to say. But ask the old-timers to calculate anything, and they will do it quickly, sometimes even faster than a computer. For they have a strong foundation in their tables assigned to their memory. Today we cannot do the same thing because our wits have dulled. Whatever inventions have come in, have brought down the power of man, destroyed him to that extent. Were we not competent otherwise? We can really do without any of those gadgets. The power and capability within us is enough to know the entire universe.
Coming back, the point was that we are proud over the scientific gadgets that we have got. But for our self, for our soul have we done any research? Does the expert, deeply interested in the research of the inanimate, ever go to a saint and ask him, 'O Bhagwant! Where should I look to find my own soul?' But Brothers! When does this question arise? Only when the realisation dawns that some search is necessary for the Soul too. Only the one who seeks self-realisation, who is now afraid of this life, who is disturbed by the thought of roaming the universe, tries to find something for the Soul.
Is the search really necessary? Let us examine that in Srimadji's own words -
बीजं कशुं मा शोध केवळ, शोध तुं सत्पुरुषने; अर्पाई जा तेना चरणमां, सर्वथा शुद्धतर मने। राजी रहे तेनी रजा सर्वस्व सत्य प्रमाणीने;
पछी मोक्ष जो तुज ना मले तो मागजे मारी कने।। If there is anything that is fit for search in this Universe, it is a Satpurush - Sadguru. There is nothing else that warrants a search. For all other search, other than this, can only be in the
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