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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
that you are insignificant. At least small, the task that has been entrusted to you. The task is trying to tell others and to make other people feel the presence of the Divine and express greatness of the Divine. You know that you are too small for that, insignificantly small. Your infinite is too small use any word you like.
Then another great value of spirituality comes namely humility. Humility is not something that is common to us and one does not start as a humble being. We start as arrogant fellows. We say that through my sadhana I am going to reach the Ultimate. No, Sadhana is a must. We do not reach the Ultimate by Sadhana. Sadhana is a must. It is an essential step. It is an unavoidable step in all its details. But it doesn’t lead us to the Ultimate. So the concept of comparison discussed earlier recurs. One starts comparing that somebody else is supposedly at a higher level than him. We start comparing, comparing one yogi with another, one saint with another, one God with other. All conflict situations arise. Humility is questioned there. Somebody comes and then says why is your Master alone good, my master is also good, and you are
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