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making. Man’s demand that God should be like man leads to the conception of personal God, and it is a kind of human arrogance. A human God is no God. Lastly the concept of personality is not an ultimate concept as inclusive of all other concepts or as most valuable. In fact there have been as many saints and seers who have accepted that the Ultimate is transcendent to personality or person.” If that is so what is the understanding we gain after all this effort at annihilating ourself. How then His will becomes ours?
The much abused methods of Guru worship are slowly giving way to the way of cooperation and service even as our Master willed. The old concept of Gurudom is based upon the idea of hierarchies of power and control. The system of hierarchy was developed in medieval times when the leaders were those who had, basically, slaughtered their way to the top and then created a hierarchical class/ caste system in order to choke off the competition and exploit as many innocents as possible. Today, hierarchy, as a concept, is becoming rapidly
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