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So we come to the last line of the prayer. 'Master thou art the only God and Power to bring us upto that State'. That is why I said that 'Thou art the real goal of human life' means 'Your condition of being transcendent to every wish or desire that breeds egoism and breeds bondage'. That is why in the last line we put the idea that Master is the only God and power to bring us upto that state. So this prayer when it is humbly told, involves surrender to God saying 'I surrender to God'. I have used my knowledge and have become blind. That is why our knowledge is our knowledge, because it breeds egoism it breeds desire. Our knowledge today is subservient to desire and instrument to desire, even as our consciousness. Therefore, this must be abandoned and we cannot abandon it merely by saying 'I have abandoned it'. Sloth is not equal to consciousness. Our giving up action does not produce liberation, because the knowledge which we are getting through our consciousness and through efforts of our own of the outer world or even of Gods is ego-centred. That is why we say that there is only that Supreme Being, the Transcendent Being, who is the origin of our existence who ought to be sought to bring us back to that condition which is fearless and desireless, and infinite. This prayer is absolutely necessary in our system.
Next comes a very important problem. Should I think that God in some form or should I think of Him without form? If we think about the God, I think it has to be formless. But if we think of Master, who is doing it I believe we have to have a form, the form of the Master. The difference is this, the God is transcendent but the Guru is one who has come down to help us and when this descent or avatar happens he takes up a form. That form would be mainly a form which makes it possible for the divine to conduct himself in our heart or pour out that force or that higher Pranahuti into us. So he takes that which is conducive to its being used for the purpose of connecting the individual soul with the Ultimate. Now that is no equivalent to the Guru. I should avoid the word Guru and say that it is Master who knows to put the energy into us or connect us with God in His ultimate state. So the Master in the Human form is a link, a living link between God and ourselves. In this system Master insists on this particular aspect. We advise at later stages when the faith has developed in us that we should meditate upon a human form. In the earlier stages one is reluctant to accept and it is reasonable for any person to ask 'how do I know that your