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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
extremist view taken, that is what you generally happens.
The reason is obvious because there is phenomenal pressure from this side. It pulls you down every second. Therefore the upper portion is under stress beyond a limit to a large extent and such a stress is justified, because everyone knows that they are not going to overcome that. The greatest of the saints have fallen several times. The greatest of the Rishis who gave us the Gayatri mantra, Sage Vishwamitra himself fell several times. Gayatri is good. The rishi is also good, but what is more good is to learn the lesson from his life, namely that we can fall several times, inspite of being on the right path. That is the lesson that we have to learn. It helps us enormously to read about these people. But there were fictitious personalities or a real personality is not a matter for discussion for us at all. It doesn't matter much. The lesson that they have given is much more important. The message they have conveyed is more important to us that we shall try to liberate ourselves from the lower tendencies. Such was the effort of that great sage and
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