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FAITH AND SURRENDER
about Rev. Babuji, but He never wanted to talk about Him. He never wanted that, He wanted all people to practice the system. He wanted everybody to think about divinity. He never wanted anybody to think about Him. You and I feel so grateful to Him, we want to talk about Him, but incidentally please note it, the ‘Means’ is Rev. Babuji, the Goal from my point of view is Rev. Babuji. But from real point of view, it is only the ultimate. It is the ultimate that has got relevance, because after two thousand years, or three thousand years or ten thousand years, or twenty thousand years ahead, it may not be Rev. Babuji. It may be another Personality, and equally great, or greater. I am not capable of judging all that because I do not think that I have judged Rev. Babuji nor will I judge the coming personality. It is stupidity. It is stupidity to judge them. Let us know what we are and be under our limits. So this self-surrender what we are talking is possible only when this ‘Sarana’ comes. Even in tradition, there is a distinction between ‘Bhakti’ and then ‘Prapathi’. ‘Bhakti’ is what we have got in the beginning and ‘prapathi’ comes to you after ‘Mahaviswasa’. There you don’t at all talk about anything else. There are two stages of Surrender. One I advocate, is trying to be dependent upon the Master all the time allowing Him to
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