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prepared to wage a war with that fellow. We have no tolerance. That’s the nature of our Bhakti. Bhakti doesn’t grant us that. Bhakti grants us humility. We say “what you say is right, however this is the method I have followed, this is what I have done. If you are interested we will tell you, otherwise you kindly follow your system, May God bless you”. That would be the attitude that comes to us. So tolerance is not just learnt. Tolerance is a byproduct of humility. However much you know you should have the tendency to think that perhaps I do not know, you have no exclusive right or prerogative to say that I know everything and the other man is wrong. Nobody has got that right. When the faith is shallow that is required. Kotta Bitchagadu Poddu Eragadu. That’s what it is. When you are new to the system you go on talking about it as though it is the only thing that is positive in the world. Such a conviction is necessary I agree, but there is no need to deny others. You can have your conviction. There is nothing wrong about it, you are fully justified to that. But, then, your conviction in your system depends not on your experiences and it so happens that you start trying to seek other people to join you in order to derive 402