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SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF LIFE – AN EXPOSITION
and however bad our skin is, we will still be in a position to appreciate the value of life. If at all there is something that is given to us at the time of our birth by the way of our karma this is one thing – the bones. It is the most important thing because it is what teaches us how to get back. The fatty things will never do. Now the fatty things are various rituals, various ceremonies, various ways of trying to enjoy ourselves in the name of God, of course. But what we get is a prasad. Our eyes are more on the prasad than anything else. But the prasad of grace that is coming to us from the Master is more appreciated by people like us than the Laddus or the vadas that may come. They are fatty things, a laddu is just fat, the vada is also a fat. But we get attached to them.
Adopt easy means for gaining the easy thing. Dogmas can do you no good. Why He is referring to dogmas is most of us are condemned to certain dogmas. This has been the practice of my family for so many generations therefore I shall continue. This has been the practice of the religion we adopted therefore we shall continue. This is the ritual that we do it as a routine way, we continue. I am not against continuing,
please note it. But have the viveka to understand they 421