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go to Srirangam. Another says that he will go only to Srirangam and will not go to Tirupati. A person who is attaching to Venkateswara swami will say that Srirangam is a useless god. That is ananyasaranatvam, only one person, that’s it. It is necessary and at the same time a blemish. We must know to be submissive to only to our Master. We are not interested in others, it does not mean others are not capable. We will come to know later that it is same there also but before coming to that stage one should definitely be attached to one, ananyasaranatva
Now, we see people going from a Venkateswara’s temple to a Padmanabha Swamy’s temple to a Rama’s temple and the Anjaneya Swamy’s temple nearby. Why does one going to Rama’s temple go to Hanuman’s temple? It is so irresponsible that he is surrendered there and also surrendered here. We have to cross the barrier of indiscriminate attitude and keep ananyasaranatva at the same time we should also note that it is a barrier.
Without going through that bridge of ananyasaranatva you will not progress but that bridge is not the goal. We have to develop ananyasaranatva, only then love for the
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