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TYPES OF GURUS
Sometimes I ponder over the questions: ―What is the reason for this fall? Which is the colour responsible for all this glamour? What creates excitement in human minds? Why do our eyes always turn hither and thither and make channels and ruts? What is all this, and who is responsible for this? Who created such environments — God or the individual himself? Who went on putting coverings on it?‖
The answer I get is: God created us that we may attain freedom, the Real Freedom. But the events of time turned the course in altogether a different way. Our mind drifted from the original freedom and ran towards the senses. We also got such pleasure which encouraged this. Those who were inclined towards senses got merged in them. Even if they got out of it, they created only those things which encouraged and gratified their senses, and they could not rise above those things. They came across such men who told them such things which they liked also, because of their support to the
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