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come across the abhyasis of this type also. And they feel genuinely so, that is the misfortune. It is not that they are wantonly trying to give rationalisation, but it is not as though they are conscious of all that. They genuinely feel that it is the Master only doing that. That type of feeling I observed in higher personalities. And all these things arise mainly because they do not do their sadhana. If the persons who are advanced continue to do their sadhana as the beginners do, I think the problem will not be there.
This arises mainly because of a confusion of self surrender. You have not surrendered. It is not the surrender of the self to the Master but it is the surrender to the self of the person that has happened. Self surrender is not all that simple. In tradition also it is not accepted as anything simple. A gati, then a prapatti and then a saranagati, several concepts are there. If we read Vaishnavaite literature, we come across a lot of differences in the various concepts. A Daasa is entirely different from Saranya, and they have to be differentiated very carefully. It is not enough to be a Daasa to become a Saranya. That type of differences are there. Basically everyone of us is a daasa. Any person who joins the system, accept the Master is a
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