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am the disciple, we meet on the way. Even before I fall at his feet, he will fall at my feet.
This is one of the things insisted in a different way. When a person comes to you for a sitting, he is giving you an opportunity for you to serve him, therefore you are lesser than him. The person who serves is lesser than the person who is served, right? That should be our attitude. So it is nychyanusandanamu
All the Alwars have practiced it. One says ‘daasan’, another replies ‘daasaanudaasan’. One says ‘vrityasya vritya’, another replies ‘paricharika vritya’. Vritya means a servant. Paricharika is an apprentice. So this person becomes a servant’s servant’s apprentice’s servant. That is the attitude. Only if we cultivate this attitude is any grace possible. If you sit with swabhimanamu, it will not come.
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