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song, put it that way it is fine. So this devotion comes very very difficult unless you know this principle you will never be devoted.
Next state to which we move on in our state of mind is total dependency on Divine. Somebody accuses you in the street for nothing, you do not know how to react to it; he accuses you for no fault of yours. What will you do? We will say something in return or you will say this is will of God. Would you say that it is what you deserve therefore you got it? See the difference in what I am asking. I may just ignore this. Put it the other way, you are going in the street somebody in the bus spits on you; as usual in Hyderabad now a days still old city that problem is there, you got to be more attentive to the fellow in the bus than yourself. What is your reaction? Would you take it to be something that God has given you? I will give a small story of a person who has lived up to that expectation. A great saint Ramanuja was there, he had a disciple who is far more intelligent than Ramanuja, who is much more well versed in scriptures than Ramanuja. Fact, agreed facts, there are no differences, both of them went to present saraswathi peetam which is there in Pakistan and then they permitted him to see one of the commentaries on Veda Vyasa’s SriBhashyam. They gave and allowed him to see Vedanta sutras and then the commentary given by dravidas there and the king said ‘I will not give a copy of this to you, you cannot obtain a copy, you have to go, you can read once no second time’, that is the condition and Ramanuja was not ekasanthagrahi, his disciple was. So he said ‘I will make good your defect so I will read this let us go’. So he was dependent upon his disciple to tell what is there in that commentary so that he can write his commentary. The concept of interdependency that we are taking about just now was the matter of issue. Is the self, dependent or independent, the issue is whether the self is dependent or independent. If you say it is independent it borders on Advaitha. If you say it is dependent it borders on Dvaitha. It is mutually interdependent is the philosophy of Ramanuja. The interpretation had to be given. He made it appear, Ramanuja interpreted, according to the anecdote, made it appear as if the self is independent and his disciple refused to write because he was under instructions earlier saying that if what I say is not in tune with my philosophy, you need not write. So he simply obeyed his Master, he said I will not write, and Ramanuja got wild and then kicked him, literally kicked him with the foot and this fellow fell and Ramanuja walked away and after about some time he comes back to