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wants to be conquered. The beast has got its own designs and plans as to how to bring us down. It will use so many sentiments, so many emotions into play and then one gets pulled down. Again and again we are pulled down. This is the reason why I talked about Viswamitra in the beginning. Look at the number of times he has been fooled by his lower self. If one tries and understand him as his own brother, he will feel sorry for him. He was a great man because his tenacity was such. Most of us leave sadhana at the slightest excuse. We have given a large number of excuses but not one reason to say I am determined to reach the Ultimate and I will be one with the Divine and therefore all these things are trivial and trash, the determination is missing. Unless one has got the determination he is not going to progress. That goal must be very clear before us and then only do we progress.
Yoga is not one more Bhakti marga. Yoga is a conscious awareness of one's loneliness and then trying to seek the help of the Divine who is the best friend for all of us. It is one inseparable friend for all of us. You can't separate. This one friend will never go.
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