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GOAL OF LIFE AND THE MEANS
is the trouble of Gurudom. Any guru for that matter, this is fundamental point, he will say he is above others. But we will never say we are above others so long as we know that it is Divinity that is there in all and that awareness will always make us feel humble.
That is why the Hindu tradition says 'Namaste'. The ‘Te’ there is accusitive plural of ‘sa ha’ (He). Namaste would mean I salute ‘Him’ in ‘You’. I don’t salute you. I salute ‘Him’ in you. 'Namaste' is not equal to 'Namaskar'. There it is, ‘akar’. 'Namaha' ‘akar’, I am offering salute to your akar. A lot of degradation in thinking. People take it as equivalent. They are not equivalent. 'Namaste' is the truth. 'Namaskar' is ahamkar. Your ‘ahamkar’ and his 'ahamkar'. Once we get into this habit we tend to fall. Don't recognise any form. Recognise the spirit. The spirit is Divinity. The spirit is God and to see that God in every one is the goal of human life. ‘O Master! Thou art the real goal of human life’, the real goal is trying to see Divinity in all. It is not seeing one Master in some far off place.
If Arjuna had seen the 'Viswa roopa' of Lord Krishna, he was no better the next day, he was a worse fool after some time As you know in the ‘Maha
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