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Remembrance of everything should merge into the Remembrance of One – the Ultimate
that condition or Divine life. The prayer is simple. The Divine is the Master, He is the guru. He is the goal to be attained. The goal is a state of being. It is not to get his form but to get that state of being that gives you the essence of an existence and also meaning to our very
existence.
Most of us identify our existence because of our office, property and other possessions or acquisitions, conveying thereby our dependence on them. We ourselves are nothing and by ourselves are nothing. Then the question arises as to who exactly is the one getting or trying to get identified. It is ‘I’. Who is this ‘I’? ‘I’ itself is the being. We are trying to be and in trying to be, we are not being ourselves, hence we become restless. We are always engaged in acquiring name, fame and objects or properties which we suppose are to give us happiness and pleasure, knowing fully well of their fleeting nature and also knowing our temporary existence on earth. In this world every thing is insecure, is in a state of slipping from us making us lose what we hold causing restlessness and untold misery. Losing near and dear, and wailing for their loss is a glaring example of temporary philosophic attitude to the impermanence here, though this attitude evaporates very quickly in thin air, engulfing us again in our attachments making us forget the inevitable truth that it is certain that we will also follow them sooner or later. All this chaos is due to our not having a sense of being. Hence it all boils down to the fact that we are struggling to have a sense of being. How to obtain the sense of being? We need ‘God’ who can free this sense of being. One who creates a sense of being in us is God. The ultimate is Reality- SAT.
While dealing with Prayer Dr K C V garu said finally: “Firstly we must earn the sense of reality of being. And that is the Goal to which we are moving. Now this
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