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MORE ON THE NATURE OF KNOTS
notions of utility of prayer to various gods and goddesses who are meant for other purposes by the Divine. Clarity here emerges after much load shedding and yatra in the knot 1. This is one of the toughest regions of travel where our notions and ideas of various forms of worship that we are accustomed to perform get shattered. As Master put it “There are few examples with whom I showed practically the state of realisation momentarily; and they felt it and appreciated it very much but they are not prepared to leave their idols because they have become habituated to it. And their wisdom has become quite blunt. Discriminative power they have already lost and that is the cause of our down fall. When the power of discrimination goes away then fear sets in. They will not leave it because their forefathers have been doing so all along. This is one aspect .Another aspect is they think that if they leave it, some calamity will befall them.” The awareness of the goal as applicable to all the planes of our existence and mergence in this condition is the major index of our laya in this knot.
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