Page 495 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

“A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion”
that any effort to free them from it is like making pulse grains out of steel. They just learnt the word 'Power', but they did not know, did not attempt to understand, what Power is, and how to use it to help others. A few are so born who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion. This alone can be said about them that they have strayed away from the path; and to bring them back to the path has become near impossible due to their having gone away from their dharma their duty. This is the reward I get for all my labour. What can I tell such persons? Only this, that such is my fate, my
fortune.
The comments of the Master shows us that the degradation has become irreversible or to put in medical terminology a case of advanced terminal cancer. Thus we can say that these people who confuse dhal for boiled rice and take great pleasure in this confusion are like patients who when confronted with a diagnosis of cancer go into a denial and say that the diagnosis is wrong or say the test results become to some body else and that the samples must have been mixed up in the lab, or they enter into delusional state and think that they are healthy and nothing can go wrong with their health. But eventually truth catches up and they succumb to the disease.
Master has given sufficient notice that wrong practice leads to wrong results or swerving away from the path. To quote Master “I hope people will excuse if I add a little more in the context that incorrect way of worship will lead to the incorrect result”.
In another place he said “By the prayer we go from outside noise to outside Silence. By cleaning, we go from outside silence to inside silence. By prayer, we come nearer to our goal because we come in contact with the Being. The same thing gives you nectar if methodically
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