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Commandment - 2
Begin your puja, with a prayer for spiritual elevation with heart full of love and devotion.
"O Master!
Thou art the Real Goal of human life. We are yet but slaves of wishes Putting bar to our advancement. Thou art the only God and power
To bring us up to that stage."
The second commandment has reference to the prayer which we offer. The prayer has three parts. The first refers to our goal, which is the Highest or Ultimate Calmness beyond all our gross experiences. The second part has reference to the obstacles or impediments to the attainment of that Goal or God. Master is the Highest kind of existence and it is Him we have to reach. The wishes which are impediments to our return to or experience of God are those which are other than our legitimate duties. We have each of us our duties and these duties are cast on us by our very conditions of common life. In a sense they are our svadharma which should not be given up. As Sri Krishna has stated it is necessary to do one's own duty rather than not do it. It is necessary not to do other person's duties (paradharma) which alone cause fear to each one of us. If we know this then we will not venture to do other people's duties. This in a sense is a wish as distinguished from duty (dharma). These wishes may pertain to all that is not necessary for our attaining the Highest State. The third part of the prayer shows that God or Master alone can lead us to That State carrying us through all impediments