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GOAL OF LIFE AND THE MEANS
ourselves baptised into it, it is now the headache of the Christ to make us Christians, not we. We will not make any effort and that is what is happening We are satisfied with the badge. The baptism, nothing more. We take to Sri Vaishnavism, we go to somebody, he gives us this chakrankitas and the moment the'chakras' are given to us O.K the job is over. What to do next, it is the problem of my Master, He has accepted us as His disciples. It is His problem. What are to do with it. This is the most common approach and the easiest, for those who do not want to get out of their wishes. He thinks that he has come to the third sentence of the prayer but in fact he is at the second sentence of the prayer “I am yet but a slave of my wishes”. He is at that level but thinks that he is at the third “thou art the only God and power to bring me upto that stage” He brings this sentence prematurely. This is what is happening in religions and a spiritual student will never commit this mistake. He knows that the third stage is not real in the beginning. Though it is real all the time, he comes to know that it is real all the time when he comes to the last stage of Prayer. He knows the inclination to think about the Divinity itself would not have come but for the fact that Divine Grace was there. That is the amount of
gratitude that he would be feeling because once he 337