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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
freedom from those bondages. That alone enables develop love for all people irrespective of our original attitudes. Once such a thing is established, what Buddha talked about, namely, the mythri bhava develops, universal brotherhood develops. For development of the consciousness capable of having universal brotherhood, again we pray in the night by saying all the people in this world are our brothers and sisters and that they are developing true love and devotion towards God. Here God is not one person we are referring to, but the principle of total pure consciousness, the suddha satva, behind everything. There is something which is behind, we do not know. If we can define God, He ceases to be God. As soon as we define anything and say this is God that ceases to be God, because we have already confined Him to that form. We have already restricted Him to that name. It is a bondage given to God by us for the freedom He has given us to know the Reality. Not only are we bound now by choice but also like God to be bound. That is what every religion has done. We are not finding any fault with that. But we have grown, we have grown enormously with our knowledge and here is the Master who says all those things are unnecessary, “Come on, come to the fundamentals, I am here to help”. The
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