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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM
the entire history of man it is Revered Babuji alone who said “I will make Masters”. Faith in such a Guru is what the vedantins call “Mahaviswasa”, which is one of the six angas of prayer, the others being “Anukulya sankalpa”, “Pratikulya varjanam”, “Gotrptva varanam”, “Atmanikshepa”, and “Kripanatva”. Thus Mahaviswasa and Kripanatva are the two things fully stressed in our prayer. The total helplessness to achieve the goal is stressed in the last two sentences of our prayer. It may be very easy to go on reciting the Upanishads, for there you love your own voice, your capacity to recite and congratulate yourself for your competence. But here, you are confronted with your total incapacity, helplessness and incompetence. The 'I' in man, the ego, does not so easily accept this proposition. That is why most of us in our Samstha also repeat the prayer but do not meditate on its meaning. If we really meditate on the meaning, tears shall roll down. We will feel how hopelessly bad, incapable, and miserably incompetent we are in this great task of trying to be one with Nature. We are incapable of even to be worthy disciples of the great Master. The problem is that we are pitted against ourselves in this grand task. It is easy to confront some enemy, to conquer Nature, perhaps. But when pitted against your ownself, you are aware of
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