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Divinity is a Play and Divine the Way
the web or gets ensnared by the Satan. The entanglements which keep on spiraling downwards or to put it in another way goes on gathering exponentially causes disturbance or misery. No person however rich or famous will ever have true peace or rest in his adventure in this ocean of samsara which is foaming and disturbing.
The only way which leads to true peace or rest is the one which takes one to his Homeland or where Almighty resides. Here Master categorically says there can only be one correct path which is perpendicular.
This game of life or Divine play is very very tough and the amount or numbers of hurdles on the path are insurmountable.
Firstly the vicious attacks from the Satan will break the spirit of any brave soldier.
I quote from “Bodhayanthi Parasparam” (p 109) which will give an idea of how powerful the influence of dark forces are. “These forces are what the spiritual seeker starts being aware of, as he moves in sadhana upwards with a determination undeterred by these instinctual forces. These forces are in and all around him, all the time and one has to incessantly combat to get rid off their grip and dislodge their long entrenched hold over him and over the environment of human existence. The difficulty is very great as their hold is very strong and apparently invincible that even great Saints have given up the idea of changing them and accepted the disdainful dictum which compares human nature to a dog’s tail as they have defied change by force of Ethics, Reason or Religion or any other redemptive effort. They returned always to the crooked curl of Vital Nature. As one great Saint oft quoted by my revered father Dr K.C.Vardachari in whose order we have all met today said “so great is the whim, the clutch of that more agitated Life-will, so
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