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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
try to touch the Divinity, some start from the core of the being, preparing a few for high thinking, generating subtle minds capable of understanding the idea of greatest ,while others giving emphasis on outer aspects ,falling short of the desired requirement ,end up in shaping millions with different mentalities with gross behavior and its resultant grossness. Their thinking having become gross, the adverse beliefs entertained by them become adverse state of reality. They ,mostly, are satisfied with ritualistic prayers ,poojas , reciting sacred religious texts, turning beads in fixed number during a particular part of the day, (at times visiting holy places on pilgrimages) while devoting other period for attending to their routine .They become ,in due course, addicts to these procedures imbibing that which is not in consonance with Reality. As major part of their activity centers around the baser needs of a human ,akin to animals(food ,shelter, protection from natural elements like heat, rain, propagation of species),their thinking, is limited to material needs, rendering them disinterested in high thinking like purpose of life, entertaining nobler ideas and trying to fix goals for achievement. They, as a result of their gross thinking, are even prone to develop superstitions which have no meaning ascribing anything or event happening due to miracles etc.
Rev.Babuji observes that finer aspect of grossness results in one thinking himself to be spiritual which is also a superstition where by he thinks of what he is really not.
When religion becomes old and the followers are steeped in superstitions and rituals need becomes prominent for saints to remodulate the course of human destiny as religions burst out into branches attracting people with different mentalities to adopt them varying cults of religious beliefs sprout with different modes of
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