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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
was (at that time fortunately T.V’s were not there in India, we had radios) “Narayana what am I to do. I am habituated to hearing to the News in English that comes exactly at 9 P.M. I have got to hear, what to do?”. I said the priority is yours sir at this age, what can I do. That was the only answer I could give to an elderly person. He was my father’s age, my father’s classmate. What should I say to him? I can’t give a sermon to him. I don’t know what he did afterwards, but I definitely know this much, he put this question and this is the answer I gave. So, I always say, have your priorities properly. Our questions are “T.V has got a show today at 9 P.M. what should we do? Should we do the prayer in the evening or see the show?” Or during Basant “we have to go to a cricket match, should we go there or sit here?” or “there is a drama performance, we are interested in it, should we go there or not?” I say the choice is ours. That determi- nation we have to make. And this comes to us only when we know, what generally is called as ‘viveka’ i.e. wisdom. You should develop that wisdom. If some one say he is not able to, that is the problem. If one is able to, why should he not?
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