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I am the Soul
"Oh! So many times?' “Twenty!' ‘But why?' 'Forty! "Oh God! I will be dead.' “Eighty!
And thus, he went on talking and his punishment doubled. Brothers! Your self-conceit goes on doubling each time you transgress the orders of the Gurudev. Ask your self? How many times have you transgressed the order? You transgressed once, your self-conceit doubled. Thus every second we do the same thing. The Lord has delineated both the Shravaka Dharma and Sadhu Dharma. If we do not follow this dharma then we are self-conceited.
But no, we do not want to remain self-conceited any more. So if we have an opportunity to be guided by a Gurudev or Satpurush, let us be dedicated at his feet and dissolve our ego.
How a jiva dedicating itself to the feet of a Guru and breaking the shackles of self-conceit, is benefitted will be related in the following pages.
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