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Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
being conscious of such passage from the utterly ignorant infant baby, innocent childhood, proud and arrogant adulthood, responsible middle age to pensive, passive and helpless old age. Normally, an individual comes to his real sense of existence when he experiences a severe jolt in life such as loss of near and dear one or misfortune in the loss of means of livelihood or when subjected to severe suffering due to incurable malady and the like. His thinking process gets diverted to enquire into reasons; finding no reasonable explanations for the inevitable succession of events, he concludes that it is his fate only to enjoy the results, as nothing is in his hands to avert any of them. By compulsion and to seek solace, as a last resort, normally he is driven to adopt methods of worshipping deities etc. as prescribed by the religious faith in which he is born. Knowing of God alone is considered enough by him at this stage.
If, by chance, he secures the association of pious persons adopting more evolved methods of solving the problem of life, and gets influenced by ‘Apta Vakya’ there is possibility of total metamorphosis, in his attitude of viewing life. Then real quest for a guide commences in right earnest. Babuji opines “In my humble opinion they should first judge their fitness to deserve such a Master. If they fall short of it, they should make themselves deserving. Sometimes, the fortune favors and one gets such a Master, even though one is not fit for the best sort of spiritual training. In that case there is nothing but the grace of God.” (SDG 121-122)
While playing our role in this life, if God chooses to shower His grace, for making one self continue to retain His grace, Babuji says that he must have his goal and his present position in view, adopting afterwards means conducive for spiritual growth and guarding against retarding things preventing his attaining the
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