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Rajayoga Sadhana
considered to be leaders or gurus among their circle of bhaktas. This is all that their flattery brings forth for them.
It may not however be unfair to say that most of the ways of worship commonly followed by the masses are but forms of flattery in one way or the other. They are completely devoid of attachment, love or surrender. Obviously, all that they do is aimed more at pleasing themselves rather than at pleasing the gods they worship, and this being closely associated with the senses, is of course a base desire. In other words they remain all through entangled within their senses, and this they presume to be ananda — an absurd idea on the very face of it. For this reason, in spite of all their toilsome acting, they remain forever deprived of the bountiful grace of the Divine.
My only object in relating to you all this is to impress upon your mind that such outer demonstrations of flattery do not count the least in awakening the inner Consciousness in the heart. It is all for worldly desires related with the senses
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