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FAITH AND SURRENDER
We don’t see them. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. They do not exist in the form that we exist. They exist in the form of thought that is why Rama is influential. Christ is influential. Mohammad is influential. Moses is less influential. Yagnavalkya is influential. Nobody remembers all others who lived with them. They are dead, spiritually dead. Spiritually gone. If I were to recall a story. “It’s in Bhagavata” – one of the kings who has done so many of yagnas and yagas. I think he did some thousand yagas, goes to heaven and at a particular point of time the Gods come and say, now it is time for you to go down. Then he says, ‘no, no. I have done so many of yagnas and yagas. It cannot be that easy for me to get down’. The Gods said nobody remembers you now. It is for you to get down. Then he seeks permission to let him go to that Kurukshetra where he had done yagas. Then in Kurukshetra he asked people, none of them remembered this man’s name. The Devatas say, now it is time for you to return. He said “no, let me exhaust the other beings”. He asks one after the other the trees etc. none of them respond. One tortoise finally says “yes, yes I come from that place. I am aware, he has done so much”. So he gets a lease till that tortoise dies. That is the story. The point is, so long as somebody
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