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PATH OF GRACE
onerous responsibility of keeping the beauty of God’s creation by not adding his own creation and thereby polluting the atmosphere, is not any philosophical or sociological proposition but a reality that needs to be expressed in thought and action, and has to and can be realised only by sadhana. The road map to spirituality or Infinity, therefore, is something one should keep with himself and evaluate oneself against the land marks given. This alone will ensure a sadhaka from missing his goal. The goal of the Ultimate many times gets substituted by penultimate ones’ essentially because the map is ignored. Certain guidelines to know the spiritual condition of an aspirant is given in the Annexure-II.
The process of yoga and meditation has not been accepted by the ordinary householder and he has always tended to accept other forms of prayer and worship. Also down the ages these yogic practices were in the sole domain of vairagis and sanyasins. The main reason for this is, it is felt that these practices are capable of making one go lunatic or behave oddly. For the practicants of yoga or meditation it is common to experience Avadhoot-
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