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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
several millenniums to come, the same thing will continue because there will be certain people who follow that. It satisfies them. So yagna when you start they try to put some leaves and then put two sticks and they go on rubbing over each other and then all of a sudden a spark comes and the fire starts. Yes, there is a question of God, because one is not very sure whether the first step is going to give or the second effort is going to give or an effort later is going to give fire. Probably it depended upon something else. We are depended on that today, we have got so many lighters, so many match sticks, so many other methods that I am not aware of. We can create fire as and when we want. We are talking about trying to forecast weather. We are not all that dependent upon Vayu or Varuna on whom we once depended. This position was well recognised even by Lord Krishna himself. When he went for Govardhanagiri worship, he was discarding the worship of Indra totally. He said “damn it. He is not the person to give us rain, it is only the mountains that give you rain. Therefore grow trees”. We talk today about ecological balance and environmental protection and He talked it about eight thousand or nine thousand years back. But then there was only one Krishna. The demand is - all of us shall be Krishnas. Nobody shall be
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