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 whatever may be the crookednesses that have developed in him. He is the God of the entire Universes (visvani deva). All this is significantly brought out by the simple and direct prayer. Thou art the only God and Power that brings us to that state (of Thine).
The second part of the prayer states that we (I) are (am) yet but slaves of our (my) wishes putting bar to our (my) advancement. The prayer could be made in the singular or plural nominative as when one prays alone or in Satsang or congregation. This is very important since it assumes that man has desires and precisely those that offer obstacles to one's attainment of the Highest State or God. These are Pratibandhakas or obstacles which are very difficult to remove or abolish. We know that our desires of wealth and pleasure are varied, some of them are legitimate but when in excess they turn out to be illegitimate and even misery - producing not only to others but to oneself ultimately. The search for wealth and pleasure has been condemned and renunciation had also been such as to lead to excess of renunciation, that is even of the legitimate. The result has been two fold obstacles due to excess of seeking and excess of renouncing. The middle path, however, cannot be arrived at by our mentality that is incapable of Samatva (equableness). Secondly, desires are of two kinds those that lead towards the goal and desires that are turned away from the goal. If the goal is constantly before one's vision, then those desires that lead upto it are integrated with it. These desires cease to be our desires but are Divine Desires (satsamkalpa of God or satyasamkalpa). The desires that have become our peculiar difficulties on the path are desires which are personal or private and seeking to satisfy our human and animal nature. These belong to the private universe which unfortunately has been for all practical purposes cut off from the Divine Universe. When we turn to God these private desires act as brakes to our turning and moving into God and check our progress. This is due to our habits of society and community no less than to our own individual cravings for satisfaction. Indeed the ego itself acts as a brake as it is feeding on these desires and manifests itself through them. We have our plant-ego, animal-ego and even when we develop a supermental-ego it will proceed to develop systems of autonomous functioning of spheres of desires. This we have if we observe ourselves, plant desires (torpor and stability call tamas), animal desires (as activity and movement and perpetuation of desires called rajas) and mental desires (of

































































































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