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SURRENDER IS THE KEY WORD FOR EFFECTIVE SADHANA
meaning ―all Vedas, all sastras, all purusharthas
(human goals), all sacrifices, all loved ones are Lord Krishna only. One who knows Lord Krishna as he is, they are the ones who have done all yajnas.‖ In my opinion based on my experience in sadhana, I may assert the same with regard to our beloved Master Babuji Maharaj.
Before we reach the stage of surrender in our sadhana, we in fact go through several preliminary stages starting from the development of understanding of interdependency of various shades. But understanding and living interdependency means quite a lot. Our Ego is the one and only barrier that needs to be crossed for even elementary understanding of interdependency. Ego is also known as pride, as self- importance. It may be considered as the compulsive need to consider oneself as separate from others. As one of the modern psychologists put it is love-denying obsession with separation and self concern. But the Ego about which I am talking here is the Ego as understood in the science of spirituality. This is a bit
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