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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
which you can come out of it is to seek refuge under the Master that is the prayer. You will see in the prayer ‘we are yet but slaves of wishes putting bar to our advancement. Thou art the only God and power to bring me up to that stage.’ That is a state of surrender. Manmanabhava, you become one with me. Aaishyathi - you become one with me. That I love you most; this is the call of the Divine Prayer is the call of the Divine. Better yield to him, surrender to him in every sense of the term. Then what happens is real nature of dependency on the Divine becomes fructified. You get to know how much depended upon the Divine you are. That is the fourth knot.
If you can analyze yourself well, when you are in the first knot, your ideas will be mostly on the animals, the earthy level. When you move to the second knot, you will see more of water, attachments and sentiments. When you move to the third knot, it is aspiration, trying to seek the Divine think of only the Divine. When you are in the fourth knot, you are in the field of air. There you are becoming lighter and lighter. Not the heaviness of the heart of the Divine soul, but
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