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successful or promotion in the profession or diseases will be cured or coming events will be informed.
v. It is not proper that the disciples’ mistakes may be corrected with out their knowledge, by mere attention of the guru.
vi. The idea that Prayer and Sandhya will be done of their own accord with out the intention of the disciple and the capacity to understand dharmashastra and Upanishads will improve automatically is not correct.
vii. There is no fixed term to experience internal conditions of bliss during the time of prayer or always.
viii. It is not necessary that he should hear any sounds or visualize any light duringjapa or meditation.
ix. There is no obligation to have good dreams and correction of experiences. There is no wonder in having them, if God’s grace is there, but they should not step into the system with such hopes.
What is the real aim? It is to know how to keep God happy and what are the means to follow His will? His will is in our following the rules of dharma and His orders. Some of these orders are regarding the external things, such as:
i) puja and Sandhya, upasana,
ii) vrtam, charity, sacrifice, yajna, japa, pilgrimage,
iii) marriage, children, man and woman, brother and sister, wife and husband and
iv) dealings with relatives like, monetary transactions, court cases, witness, succession, division of lands,
v) blessings, eating and drinking, sleeping and standing, guests Etc.
All these are as to be done as per the dharmashastra such as loving God, fearing Him, remembering Him, reducing love towards the world, Etc. Be happy with whatever is given by Him or what He wants, do not be greedy, do puja and Sandhya with attention on the heart, helping needy with pure heart, not to consider any body mean, no self liking, arrest anger, Etc. All these things are called Salook or Panth.
There are orders for doing internal things, just as for the external things. Due to a bad heart, the external body works are also not done properly. For example:
i) when the love towards God becomes less, laziness sets in towards performing pujaor done quickly and not properly