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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
Great saints have always prayed. Some of them seem to have got the grace. Otherwise we would not have had all these religions. But still it was something that they could not finally pass it on. Grace itself they can not pass it on, but they impressed upon us the importance of grace. I think this is the significant point we should understand in our system. Grace has never been imparted so far. The greatness of grace was always stressed as the most important factor in sadhana, in Realisation. Every person has accepted this because he had a taste of it. But he could not give the taste of it to somebody else, because that depends upon the will of God. However much your dog is going to scratch the door, the door is not going to get open, it will not open. The door will be opened only when you go there and open it. Any amount of our bakthi, stotras, crying etc., things will not give the grace. It depends upon Him and Him alone to grant you the grace. That is why it has been stated that when people asked, what exactly is the cause for such grace to come, they said it is something that they cannot explain. They said, it is Nirhetuka. We cannot give a cause for it. That leads us to lot of philosophy, where first of all whether God is independent or is free or not. The freedom for God demands that He should have the freedom to shower
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