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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
progeny, therefore a balance has to be struck in the satisfaction of urges and needs and wants, for that you have got to yield to the Divine and seek its help.
Our wishes are multiplying. One person comes forward with one type of biscuit and the other person comes forward with another type of ice-cream. So we do not have any time except getting exhorted and get exposed to that type of bombardment from the media and social circles in which we move. We go to our family, friends or other circles; they talk about the same thing. What did you have? What will you have? No person is having anything to talk other than food and there is no end to this type of talk. Let us take the conversations of women in the phone, particularly in our country, I don’t know what they do in the west, but here they go on talking hours and hours together like, “What you have prepared in the house? What is your dish, and how it has been prepared? How can I do this? How can I do that?” This is what is engaging our attention. Subtle influences come from every source. Some fellow says to us “Sir, there is a new restaurant here”. This afternoon I was coming with my brother, he was telling to me there is a new restaurant near to our house. But I don’t go to restaurant, what do I care for
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