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as they come. Titiksha is another word that we have got - forbearance. Forbearance and fortitude are essential for development of spirituality. The flippant remarks come down; you tend to mellow down, you tend to start thinking about things much more patiently. Your basic animal instinct has not changed yet, there will be occasions when you will be shouting, there will be occasions when you will throw away things, break things perhaps break heads of others also. With the development of Bhakthi, while these things still subsist, there will also be a prayer to the Divine saying that I have done these things please excuse me, please forgive me. I try my best not to repeat this but then we repeat. Promises are never kept even to God for that matter.
The transition from interdependency to Bhakti is a very very tough process and it is a gradient you have got to climb. This gradient requires a twist has to be done, this push has to be done by a person who knows how to do that and then once this is done and then you move on from this plane. So the movement from 2nd knot to 3rd knot, from interdependency to Bhakti itself is an enormous tough job because most of us who go to temples, who think that we are devoted, who feel that they are doing the meditations properly, people who think that they are worshiping God well are only trying to flatter God and not be devoted to Him. Flattery is one thing that we resort to i.e. we are still at the level of appeasing somebody to get our things done, we are still transacting at the level of equality. ‘I give you, you give me’- that is my temple Tirupati. You do this to me I will put that money to you, I will perform this you perform that, transaction is at equal level, not at the dependency level, the Bhakthi has not developed. For all purposes socially it is agreed, I am not going to contest any one of these practices. My point is only stressing this much, the transaction level is one of equivalence and not one of being less than the Divine. Perhaps we are trying to be smart with Him because we like Him to give us about 10 lakhs of profit so that I may give 1 lakh of profit, so 1 lakh you find all of a sudden in the hundi. Submissive level has not developed, why it has developed like that would be a matter for them to bother about it, for a spiritual person he is not bothered about that. We know this much, we transact with God mostly at the submissive level and that is why we consider such a concept of God cannot be considered as the Ultimate concept. It may have its own value, we are not going to deny any one of those things but most of the people think that from bhakthi to saranagati also is easy. It is

































































































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