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need to bring God’s consciousness right into his being. The difference between prayer and meditation is this” when I pray I talk and God listens; and when I meditate, God talks and I listen.”
In our system of sadhana we adopt the methods of Prayer, Meditation and also purificatory practices so as to deserve to be called an aspirant.
Aspiration we find thus leads us to a state where we seek the Divine through our entire being. The various desires of the physical, vital and mental planes need to be given up for achieving this state. Longing for the Divinity is the only mode of the aspirant and under this condition he starts yielding to the demands such an aspiration warrants. Such an yielding attitude to the Will of God leads him to the state of surrender. Surrender may thus be considered as man's conscious oneness with God's Will.
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