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The Wooden Plank, Our Savior !
significance.
Parmatma has given us the following two words and their short and clear definitions.
One whose perception and vision are true has the right attitude (samyakatva)... One who has a malign perception and vision has a perverse attitude (mithyatva).
When you are in the middle of the ocean and drowning, will you perceive the sea as your savior or destroyer? If the water is going to drown you, then the wooden plank will seem to be your last hope as a savior. Even if the plank is not attractive and is smaller than the ship, even if it is broken, or has nails on it which might hurt, will you hold on to the plank or leave it?
You will definitely hold on to it tightly because at that time that wooden plank will seem to be no less than God!
Remember, till you do not feel that you are drowning in the sea, you will never know the importance of a simple wooden plank.
But this is our weak point... we like religion...we are religious but at the same time we also like to break rules and go against what is morally right!
We believe in our religion...we like following it, so we start our day with Namaskar Mantra, we go to the temple, do Samayik, Pratikraman, and chant the rosary, as
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