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be taken up with such deep attachment as to have the same work developed as a tool for one’s salvation. Just this teaching is imparted to everybody in our fold: one who acts upon this prescription achieves success to a large extent. It may adopt in any form. There is no harm at all in that regard. The main thing is being concerned with the purpose in view. One thing more is essential, which everybody should adopt, viz. one should get inclined to love and devotion so much, that it is taken to be the main concern. Now the question arises, how this can be brought to one’s lot. The answer is that God’s shape is to be supposed in some actual person who is considered by one to be perfect; and one is to start loving that particular person. One thing even now remains: how is this sentiment to come up? The answer to it is right conduct. The problem is still not solved as it gives rise to the thought as to how we are to develop rightness of conduct. The reply to this is prayer and the habit of having regard and respect for others. One more question arises: how do we come up to that stage? The answer to it is good company, along with stories of elder sages and devotees.”
[22-02-1945: pg.181-182 (A.B.II - II)]
3. The Causal (factor) having been structured, the shape of manifestation accordingly got created. When body was adopted, whatever actions took place therein, these left impressions in the causal (factor) thereof. The body was left behind, when the time (for that) was there. Now what was structured by the body became the causal (factor) for the manifestation of the next existence (entity). Now whatever actions came to be performed through that entity (existence), these maintained the causal factor, so long as those actions existed and imprinted impressions in their own turn. This chain continues unbroken. We have formed (structured), who knows, how many causal (factors = bodies). One factor is the basic (material) cause as well, where from the chain of these comes to exist. This can also be said to be the cause of bringing about the beginning (of the whole chain of causal factors)”.
[31-01-1947: pg. 177 (A.B.II - III)
4. There is a secret. When someone imparts training without selfish interest, only then effect is there. This is known as sincerity (Khuloos). Just after my release from physical bondage, you developed cholera. Symptoms had surfaced even earlier in the form of diarrhea. That was because I had filled you with power all at once, and hence the accumulated dirt of past impressions (Samskaras) had started getting cleansed. This had to be done to make room for that transferred