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ATTITUDES FOR PROPER SADHANA
others and thus put a spoke to surrender. This is one of the principles that we have learnt in our country by tradition itself. We go to some thirtha yatra or pilgrimage we get prasad, we distribute to all. We don’t keep it to ourselves. We do not accept some thing that has come to us from the Divine as some thing as our own. It is something to be shared, is the consciousness that we have developed, an attitude that is a must in the field of surrender.
d. We tend to think that everything is from God and do not yield to the master trying to distinguish between them on rational grounds. Gurudevo bhava is another concept that we should understand. We cannot distinguish between a guru and God. Basically this has led to many problems of gurudom. The Gurudom theory is not being substantiated here but we should know there is part of the Master also in the Guru and we should never think that we have got direct relationship with Divine without this interdependency on one more person or
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