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precedes devotion. In our manual also we have put craving in third knot, actually it is a stage that comes before. Now I would try to concentrate on many aspects of bhakti, which can be considered as buffer points, a very large gap is there between the second knot and third knot. It is a steep rise. It is not as though once one knows these preliminaries, he become devoted, one requires to be pushed several times, the reason for that will be dealt with later. If we have these five basic prerequisites with us, that enables us to move slowly from the lower plane of consciousness to the upper plane of consciousness, till that time the talk of movement of a man being lifted to the upper plane of consciousness does not hold water. It is not that easy, he has to know these things, it has to be realised, so first journey in the first and second knot will be very clear, then only you can say the flow is towards the upper portion, he is trying to become superconscious, conscious of something more than him. In the center of devotion, we have pointed out in the “Path of Grace” what we develop is a single pointed orientation towards the divine and that also helps us to have goal clarity,
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