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BALANCED EXISTENCE AND STAGES OF PROGRESS
many things is ridiculous. Surrendering totally is what needs to be done. It is not like a robber who goes to the temple and say let me rob so and so person today and then come back and seek your blessings. He has already decided his action plan. Only he wants an approval for that. In surrender there is no action plan. It is like a child who seeks refuge of the mother. Anything that happens because of only one word ‘amma’ that’s all. In troubles we run. Even today that’s what you and I say. Because the Divine is the mother also, so that type of surrender, which is very natural for an infant, shall be the type of surrender to which we evolve. Our minds should grow up to that level. We don’t grow, why not? Because we are perpetually trying to improve various qualities of Viveka, Vairagya, atma jnana and bhakti and in developing these things we keep running around in circles. It is not that you cut a knot and go to the other. In this system we go from one knot to another not by breaking them, but by loosening our bondages on them. We are freed enough to move on. The bonds are there, if bonds are cut off you cease to live. That is the reason why earlier they said you get away from people, you will not be in a position to
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