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VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SPIRITUAL TRAINING
very well and must be very assiduously practiced. Many comparisons have been given by Rev. Eshwar Sahai, Rev. Varadachari, myself and many others who tried to explain Babuji Maharaj’s system with many of the practices in the tradition trying to tell but the main theme is not given up. We are trying to modify it, we are trying to suit it to the modern circumstances. But this seems to have given many people an impression that the old things as they are, are permissible in our system. They are not. This is where I had some tough talk with some people who said that they get up early in the morning and do their rituals and say that is what our ancestors have said. Surely what they have said is what has guided us. But what they did will not guide us. Each generation will work out it’s own methodology of finding its own salvation. Nobody succeeds by trying to copy a person like Chanakya. His was the best method on that day. There is no doubt about that because he succeeded. There is no point in saying that we want to do something trying to say that some old man Vipranarayana behaved similarly or some other Nambi had behaved like this. When we reflect on the great men of the past we try to get some inspiration. Under very adverse circumstances also
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