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PARALLELISM AND INVERTENDO
unison with it, now our Sadhana naturally should start with certain points, which will enable us to have the same connection. That is why we start with the first commandment of Sri Ramchandra, which says, Rise before dawn. Now most of us have forgotten what dawn is, perhaps in cities nobody has seen it. Civilization has advanced to such an extent that we have lost the meaning to the morning sunrise and evening sunset. Both these things are not understood. Most of the people may not have seen sunrise at all. Being that they are either in flats or in some places. There is no chance of seeing the sky, the eastern sky. The eastern horizon is not visible. We see it in some pictures or cinemas. Somebody says it should be like that, so it is like that. This is the present state of affairs. What I am trying to tell you is, most of us don’t get up by that time. Thanks to our habits, whatever habits we have developed. Whether we get up at that time or not, it’s a fact that the rotation of the earth around the sun makes it something like a sun rising in the east in the morning and sun sets in the west in the evening. It is something that happens. It is immaterial whether we have seen it or we have not seen it. The creation of the day unfortunately according to the Christians or universal calendar what ever we call it, we start the day
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