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GOAL OF LIFE AND THE MEANS
say this prayer and not do anything else? No, it is the truth that Divinity and Divinity alone will take us, but the awareness of that Divinity becomes possible in our consciousness only by repeated attempts and that is Sadhana. The Sadhana aspect of it is - we make a genuine effort every day to see how much of our consciousness, consciousness in the sense - self consciousness (self awareness) is reduced and a universal awareness is increased. This sadhana goes on. Only when this exercise continues regularly then we find the relevance of that sentence- the meaning of that sentence - that the God alone does everything. In the beginning we alone do it, then we come to know that we could not have done all these things but for that influx, but for that help that is coming from Divinity. It is a bit difficult to accept that it is Divinity alone which is guiding us all the time. We can fool ourselves so. We will not be aware of it. If we can accept it prematurely that can lead to one more problem also namely we start thinking that “if God is the means and He is going to make me think about Him, then let Him wake me up at 4’O clock, let Him make me sit etc." We try to give a perverse interpretation there, because that is not the truth in our existence now. That is a truth at higher level
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