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ASPIRATION AND SURRENDER
A true aspirant has to utilize his time in the best interests of achieving his objective. For this when he prays, or meditates he has to feel that each second is infinitely more important than it was previously, before he took to sadhana in spiritual life. While every second can be used either for meditation or for gossip or for cherishing impure and undivine thoughts, a true aspirant will turn every second into an opportunity to dwell in the Divine thoughts. Such discrimination is one of the main characteristics that develop in a true aspirant.
The most important factor to achieve our aspiration is to try and develop a genuine hunger for God's love, and God's blessings. There are two ways to increase one's inner hunger. One way is to cry for God like a helpless child crying for his mother or the path of surrender. The other way is to offer one's actions to God while keeping a cheerful attitude, or nishkama karma yoga. With both these ways the aspirant will make real inner progress.
In either case ‘aspiration’ has to be an urge from every level of being of the aspirant. It has to be
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