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BODHAYANTI PARASPARAM – VOL 7
archetype to which he/she belongs. Master stated that “When all my associates gather at one spot it becomes a temple for me and it is their duty to make their hearts as the temple themselves.” (SDG 117)
It is obvious that only the temple of God can receive God, namely, a soul predisposed by grace, grounded in the Path, purified of all blemishes of ego centricity, transformed in will, established in virtue which are all made possible in this path with the aid of Pranahuti. It has been clarified that Pranahuti works effectively only when there is adequate individual effort to receive the grace of God. It is because of our natural appetitive instincts, that result in our fallen nature we are fixed upon the world and then we need the help more. Without a determined effort, spiritual inspiration, and direction, one cannot hope to interrupt the centrifugal tendency which drags us down and delays the process of our integration. Thus it is, we have the admonition: "Gird up your loins”. We have to make ourselves the temples of God and when such temples gather, the shrine starts emitting the fragrance and brilliance
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