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ROLE OF ABHYASI
situation to the Master, because I can assure all of you that we are all linked with the Master. So, once we are linked with the Master, we must do what we are supposed to do and allow him to help us. Otherwise He has to do our work also and then He should do His work. Naturally that is not the way to love Master.
Getting up early morning and doing our sadhana is actually the preliminaries of meditation and if we understand the need to realise, we will also understand the need to be true and as simple as possible. And when once this is done, we start our meditation with a pious attitude towards the Master, an yielding attitude towards the Master. Somehow this yielding attitude does not find a place in the book “Role of Abhyasi” and I do not know why it is not there. So far as I am concerned that is the most important thing that an abhyasi has to do. It is his role. We have to develop an attitude of absolute surrender to the Master. Most of the time we can satisfy ourselves that we have surrendered to the Master while in fact we have surrendered to our own wishes which we expect the Master to fulfill. We do not accept whatever the will of the Master might be but expect our wishes to be satisfied. This we call surrender to Master. Thus it is
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