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taken by the other systems is much longer, some times the whole life is not sufficient. Some people have said that even a whole life of Karm yog would bring us into Gnan yog and another whole life of Gnan yog will bring us into Bhakthi yog - devotion to the divine. Then of course there are quarrels about which should be first undertaken, and I am not going to enter into that. As I hold that when these three are one yoga what is the use of pulling down the one and not pulling down the other two. So, I am not going to enter into what is called the casuistical process by which our Pundits have been spending their time. I would much rather take man as a whole and therefore l dedicate myself to the realisation of the ultimate which I think is Parajnana. If I am said ,to be intelligent, why am l intelligent? I have chosen the ultimate not the penultimate. I have chosen that which liberates. I have not chosen which binds me however softly. So l have chosen wisely and my devotion to the ultimate to reach it somehow by dedication, by surrender, by giving up my ego or by subordinating my ego, to it even my thoughts, even thought itself my reasonings, my doubts - all these things l subordinate. Just keep them in abeyance with a freedom to revise them if I want. That devotion must be there. It comes naturally and every one of my actions is directed towards realising this oneness with the divine. Whatever I do, whatever I think about, whatever I desire, is always towards that one goal of freedom. Therefore all the three portions of my being are integrated in this particular way and so there is no quarrel about which yoga I shall follow and therefore I need not take many births in order to realise God. They say it is much richer to go through every experience and then finally achieve the ultimate and then if you want that kind of going about every experience not one life, but many lives or millions of lives will be necessary before you reach God. But supposing a man reaches God first, and all these things are given to him and he knows and understands his real nature, is it not a much shorter way? Therefore our people stated "first know God and then everything will come to you. All experiences would be possible to you, without binding you, without tempting you, without making you go astray - this gives you a perfect picture of a liberated man in a liberated world". That is why the great promise of this particular system of dynamics of spiritual life, which I call the principle of introduction of the supreme consciousness into the heart. It facilitates, quickens and arrives at that supreme state of equality with the divine, without any possibility of stepping oneself down into the lower nature, falling a victim to the lower