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DEVOTION
clarity can emerge only in devotion. Intellectually we may appreciate. But you will not adopt. To appreciate a goal is different from adopting that goal. If you have to adopt that goal you must feel this. So we have to become mokshaarthis. Are we clear about it. If your bhakti is towards that then this Master becomes relevant. Otherwise any tribal deity is as good as this. And any vratam is as good as this. And where do people falter? If we look at it, when you are in dire need for help and you do not find anybody to help you and you seem to be getting sinking actually and you require somebody to help, when somebody says that to you, you go to this temple you will get that relief, you go to that baba he is prepared to help you, you will go there. That is, the much needed devotion to the Master and the goal is not there and you are succumbing to several things. If you don’t succumb there are people in the house to succumb. You don’t have to, either your wife or mother or father or children, they will give you suggestions. Why don’t you go to this temple, why don’t you go and do this, why don’t you do that. I don’t say you shouldn’t do any one of them, but
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