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very very popular book in the Maharastrian life. Jnaneswari mentions that. One or two saints of south have mentioned certain points up to sahasrara, the paths are a bit different but the conditions are same. Why they have chosen that I have no idea because I learn them only through literature, I have not practiced any one of them. This one I have practiced, this much I can tell you these are all the feelings we get. I have learnt by practice that unless you do the manana you don’t own it. In the beginning I used to think that by thinking about that condition it will be enough, no. We should be doing the manana, constantly we have got to do the manana aspect of it, we have got to think about it, we can’t just take it for granted because these are all the conditions that have been given to you and you have got to own it. It is just like a person who is taught SA RI GA MA PA DA NI SA, the octaves are taught. Then one has to go and practice, similarly manana one has to have it, develop it. Until he does, he will not be in a position to have it.
So in the presence of a Master you may feel certain things but on your own when you start feeling it then you will become confident to talk, yes I am what I am and you will see the change in yourself. How much of a less of a beast you are and how much more of a man you are and how much of a sharing that you do which is the principle of Divinity. Divinity is nothing but principle of sharing, please note it. Sharing is the principle of Divinity, it is with us, all of us, we want to share, many of us want to share but circumstances compel us not to share, because we fall victims to that, selfishness. And even then, when sharing you would like to share among your own people, that is another nasty habit we have got. We develop this habit. I was amazed in one funeral when the dana had to be given, they were only searching for the relatives to whom they can give the dana, they were other people who are eligible for it but they were not prepared to give, because why should we give so much of money for him sir, they asked me, I said so much is your sacrifice, so much is your service. I did not try to talk much because these are all points which one would not like to discuss, one has to grow, one has to grow to that level. It happens in some cases in this rites, in funeral rites, in sradha rites, you have got interesting problems, you have got to give some gold to some people you have got to, there is no alternative to it and when you give, you would like to give to your own people. That ‘s the misfortune, why this misfortune, because, our self has not grown beyond the relationship, about which I talked. You don’t want to be your self, you want to be