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entirely. Rev. Babuji instead suggested balancing our craving and needs. Further he advocated that every thought of ours be taken as an injunction from the Master and develop a detached perspective as to the outcome of efforts of need gratification. We are not slaves of desires and wishes as such but slaves to the results of our action leading to satisfaction of desires. In the philosophy of recluses ‘not wanting’ means not wanting anything, not just dropping the desire for sex, money, and power, but also dropping the desire for justice, family, and nation. It is not what we want that matters, it is the wanting mechanism itself that is the barrier and according to them has to be abolished. This will not apply in a family set up. Whatever may be the merits of deep meditation, reason and norms of society cannot be dispensed with in a civilized world. The half naked fakirs and totally naked jains are not specimens of human perfection. The call for such abdication given by the orders of renunciation is not acceptable to a rational being. Ending the wanting mechanism brings time to a halt, annihilates the future and the past, and plays no part in His expression.
The Natural Path wants us to be responsible persons committed to common good and welfare of
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