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are committing a mistake of not including ‘Sri’ and therefore it is blasphemous. This is what is called Ashreyana Virodhatva. To whom am I seeking? "Tasmai Devaha Havisha Videma" as the Upanishad says, to which God should I offer my prayer. There is only one God. The God that answers to you is the Guru. The God that is at the base is Brahma with whom he has got connection.
Several people talk about several Gods and therefore we have got several paths, several means. Having come to the path and having chosen the path in which we would like to tread, if we think about something else and that happens mainly because of the shravana that we do. We hear something else and Shravana is done, this is what is known as Shravana Virodhatva.
We start thinking about other Gods and other means. So our surrender to that extent suffers. You may have heard only good things, but have this much of clarity that one has no business to change based on Shravana. Because the first is based on Anubhava and the second one is that of Shravana. Now this leads us to one more peculiar concept of Anubhava virodhatva.
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